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"Oh, poor Candlewick!" said Pinocchio in a low voice; and, taking a handful of straw, he dried a tear that was rolling down his face. "Do you grieve for a donkey that cost you nothing?" said the gardener. "What must it be to me, who bought him for ready money?" "I must tell you he was my friend!" "Your friend?" "One of my school-fellows!" "How?" shouted Giangio, laughing loudly.
"Well, then, if you will draw a hundred buckets of water, I will give you in compensation a tumbler of milk." "It is a bargain." Giangio then led Pinocchio to the kitchen garden and taught him how to turn the pumping machine. Pinocchio immediately began to work; but before he had drawn up the hundred buckets of water the perspiration was pouring from his head to his feet.
"I must have patience!" said Pinocchio, and he turned to go. "Wait a little," said Giangio. "We can come to an arrangement together. Will you undertake to turn the pumping machine?" "What is the pumping machine?" "It is a wooden pole which serves to draw up the water from the cistern to water the vegetables." "You can try me."
When he had cried for some time he dried his eyes and prepared a comfortable bed of straw for Geppetto to lie down upon. Then he asked the Cricket: "Tell me, little Cricket, where can I find a tumbler of milk for my poor papa?" "Three fields off from here there lives a gardener called Giangio, who keeps cows. Go to him and you will get the milk you are in want of."
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