Part 8 (2/2)
”He was building a little boat hich to cross the ocean For the last fouraround Europe, looking for you Not having found you yet, he has made up his mind to look for you in the New World, far across the ocean”
”How far is it from here to the shore?” asked Pinocchio anxiously
”More than fifty eon, hoish I had your wings!”
”If you want to come, I'll take you with me”
”How?”
”Astride my back Are you very heavy?”
”Heavy? Not at all I' eon's back and, as he settled hiallop on, eon fleay, and in a few minutes he had reached the clouds The Marionette looked to see as below thehtened that he clutched wildly at the Pigeon's neck to keep hi the Pigeon said: ”I'ry!” said Pinocchio
”Let us stop a few o on and be at the seashore in the ”
They went into the e but a bowl of water and a small basket filled with chick-peas
The Marionette had always hated chick-peas According to hiht he ate theeon and said: ”I never should have thought that chick-peas could be so good!”
”You er is the best sauce!”
After resting a fewthey were at the seashore
Pinocchio ju any thanks for a kind deed, fleiftly and disappeared
The shore was full of people, shrieking and tearing their hair as they looked toward the sea
”What has happened?” asked Pinocchio of a little old woo and today he built a tiny boat for hio in search of hih and we're afraid he will be drowned”
”Where is the little boat?”
”There Straight down there,” answered the little old woer than a nutshell, floating on the sea
Pinocchio looked closely for a few ave a sharp cry: ”It's my father! It's my father!”
Meanwhile, the little boat, tossed about by the angry waters, appeared and disappeared in the waves And Pinocchio, standing on a high rock, tired out with searching, waved to him with hand and cap and even with his nose
It looked as if Geppetto, though far away fronized his son, for he took off his cap and waved also He see to make everyone understand that he would come back if he were able, but the sea was so heavy that he could do nothing with his oars Suddenly a huge wave came and the boat disappeared
They waited and waited for it, but it was gone
”Poora prayer as they turned to go ho around, the fisher folk saw Pinocchio dive into the sea and heard him cry out: ”I'll save hiand swaain he disappeared only to reappear once , he was far away from land At last he was completely lost to view
”Poor boy!” cried the fisher folk on the shore, and again they mumbled a few prayers, as they returned home
CHAPTER 24
Pinocchio reaches the Island of the Busy Bees and finds the Fairy oncehis father and of being in ti
And what a horrible night it was! It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning was so bright that it turned the night into day
At dawn, he saw, not far away fro stretch of sand It was an island in the et there, but he couldn't The waves played with hi or a bit of straw At last, and luckily for him, a tremendous wave tossed him to the very spot where he wanted to be The blow froround, his joints cracked and al daunted, he jumped to his feet and cried: ”Once more I have escaped with my life!”
Little by little the sky cleared The sun came out in full splendor and the sea became as calm as a lake
Then the Marionette took off his clothes and laid them on the sand to dry He looked over the waters to see whether he ht of a boat with a littleexcept sea and sky and far away a few sails, so sht have been birds
”If only I knew the name of this island!” he said to himself ”If I even knehat kind of people I would find here! But whom shall I ask? There is no one here”
The idea of finding himself in so lonesome a spot made hi Fish swi near-by, with his head far out of the water
Not knohat to call him, the Marionette said to him: ”Hey there, Mr Fish, may I have a ith you?”
”Even two, if you want,” answered the fish, who happened to be a very polite Dolphin
”Will you please tell me if, on this island, there are places where oneeaten?”
”Surely, there are,” answered the Dolphin ”In fact you'll find one not far froet there?”
”Take that path on your left and follow your nose You can't go wrong”
”Tell h the sea, did you not perhaps meet a little boat with my father in it?”
”And who is you father?”