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Updated: June 22, 2025
He asked the stable-boy: "How much do you want for that lame donkey?" "Twenty dollars." "I will give you two dollars. Don't suppose that I am buying him to make use of; I am buying him solely for his skin. I see that his skin is very hard and I intend to make a drum with it for the band of my village." Imagine poor Pinocchio's feelings when he heard that he was destined to become a drum!
But, my children, there came a morning when Pinocchio awoke and found a great surprise awaiting him, a surprise which made him feel very unhappy, as you shall see. Pinocchio's ears become like those of a Donkey. In a little while he changes into a real Donkey and begins to bray. Everyone, at one time or another, has found some surprise awaiting him.
"I beg your pardon," replied Pinocchio, "I am also a criminal." "In that case you are perfectly right," said the jailor, and, taking off his hat and bowing to him respectfully, he opened the prison doors and let him escape. You can imagine Pinocchio's joy when he found himself free. Without stopping to take breath he immediately left the town and took the road that led to the Fairy's house.
If my papa were here I should not now be dying of yawning! Oh! what a dreadful illness hunger is!" Just then he thought he saw something in the dust-heap something round and white that looked like a hen's egg. To give a spring and seize hold of it was the affair of a moment. It was indeed an egg. Pinocchio's joy was beyond description.
He pulled the rope which he had tied to Pinocchio's leg pulled and pulled and pulled and, at last, he saw appear on the surface of the water Can you guess what? Instead of a dead donkey, he saw a very much alive Marionette, wriggling and squirming like an eel.
The Marionette's lips might have been nailed together. They would not open. In desperation the smaller of the two Assassins pulled out a long knife from his pocket, and tried to pry Pinocchio's mouth open with it. Quick as a flash, the Marionette sank his teeth deep into the Assassin's hand, bit it off and spat it out. Fancy his surprise when he saw that it was not a hand, but a cat's paw.
Pinocchio's legs were stiff and he could not move, but Geppetto led him by the hand and showed him how to put one foot before the other. When his legs became limber Pinocchio began to walk by himself and to run about the room, until, having gone out of the house door, he jumped into the street and escaped.
"I should like to know, signori," said the Fairy, turning to the three doctors gathered about Pinocchio's bed, "I should like to know if this poor Marionette is dead or alive." At this invitation, the Crow stepped out and felt Pinocchio's pulse, his nose, his little toe.
The little goat's hair, instead of being white or black, or a mixture of two colors as is usual with other goats, was blue, and a very vivid blue, greatly resembling the hair of the beautiful Child. I leave you to imagine how rapidly poor Pinocchio's heart began to beat.
They had already reached the village when a gust of wind blew Pinocchio's cap off his head and carried it ten yards off. "Will you permit me," said the puppet to the soldiers, "to go and get my cap?" "Go, then; but be quick about it." The puppet went and picked up his cap, but instead of putting it on his head he took it between his teeth and began to run as hard as he could towards the seashore.
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