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Updated: September 4, 2025
And she turned to gather up her young ones, who were shouting about the market-place, trying to stand upon their heads as Gigi had done. Gigi clasped the silver piece tightly in his hand, and went on, shaking the tambourine after the retreating crowd. But few more pennies were coaxed away. Presently he made his way back to the group of tumblers, now seated on the fountain-steps.
"He does not know where it is," Toto said, sitting down again opposite Gigi. "Engineers know everything," retorted the carpenter. "If this one knew anything, he would not have stood there looking at the stones. I do not suppose the municipality is going to put up a monument to my grandfather, whom may the Lord preserve in glory!"
Like an angel with healing in his wings, Angelo comes to Gigi. When he spies him out, Gigi rises, unsteady on his little feet rises up, forgetting all, and clasps his hands. When Angelo comes near, and stands beside him, Gigi flings his chubby arms about his neck, and nestles to him. Angelo, when he sees Gigi's disfigured face and sodden eyes, feels his conscience prick him.
Gigi grew paler and paler, and his food lay almost untouched on his plate. He was too tired to eat. At last, when supper was finished. Mother Margherita rose and lighted a candle. "Come with me, Gigi," she said, "and I will show you where you are to sleep this night." Gigi followed her readily, glad to escape further questioning, and eager to rest his aching head.
What difference does it make since that pig of an engineer got out?" "The other person was caught with him when the water rose," said Gigi, who meant to give his information by inches. "Curse him, whoever he was! He helped the engineer and that is why they got out. No man alone could have broken through that wall in a night, except one of us."
There had been too many people about the palace on the morning when Sabina had left it with the Baroness. Especially, there had been that carpenter, of whom no one had thought till it was too late. If Gigi had recognized Sabina, that would be Malipieri's fault too, for Volterra had not known that the man had been employed about the house for years. A week passed, and nothing happened.
Gigi waited until the cart was nearly opposite, and he could hear the voices of the woman and the children talking and laughing together. Then he crept out from behind the stack and stepped to the side of the road. The great, lumbering oxen eyed him curiously, but did not pause. The children stopped talking, and one of them pointed Gigi out to his mother. "Look, Mama! A little boy!"
Every one stood amazed; even the King sank back in his seat, stupefied. The guards fell back with lowered weapons. The crowd was silent, staring open-mouthed. Then a murmur arose, and words passed from man to man. "A miracle! It is a miracle! They must be God's saints!" But Tonio was not long silent. "Tricks! Tricks!" he cried. "Gigi has become an animal-trainer. But he is our boy still.
Angelo, having found Gigi troublesome, had tied him by a twisted cord of grass to the trunk of an ancient chestnut. Gigi was trepanned into this thralldom by a heap of flowers artful Angelo had brought him purple crocuses and cyclamens, and Canterbury bells, and gaudy pea-stalks, all thrown before the child.
Now, renewing their friendship, the boys and "Gigi the Chicken" sat on the lower step of the air lock and chatted. "This is the greatest thing that has happened to me," said Gigi. "Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to race in space!" "Don't get much chance when you're hauling passengers around, I guess," said Tom. Gigi shook his head. "One must always be careful.
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