. Pinocchio . th the mullet. The last to remain in the net was Pinocchio. No sooner had the fisherman taken himout than he opened his big green eyes withastonishment, and cried, half-frightened: What species of fish is this? Fish of thiskind I never remember to have eaten I And he looked at him again and havingexamined him well, he ended by saying: I know: he must be a craw-fish. Pinocchio, mortified, at being mistaken fora craw-fish, said in an angry voice: A craw-fish indeed! do you take me fora craw-fish? I tell you that I am a puppet. A puppet? replied the fisherman. Totell the truth, a pu
. Pinocchio . th the mullet. The last to remain in the net was Pinocchio. No sooner had the fisherman taken himout than he opened his big green eyes withastonishment, and cried, half-frightened: What species of fish is this? Fish of thiskind I never remember to have eaten I And he looked at him again and havingexamined him well, he ended by saying: I know: he must be a craw-fish. Pinocchio, mortified, at being mistaken fora craw-fish, said in an angry voice: A craw-fish indeed! do you take me fora craw-fish? I tell you that I am a puppet. A puppet? replied the fisherman. Totell the truth, a puppet is quite a new fish forme. I shall eat you with greater pleasure. Eat me! but will you understand that Iam not a fish? Do you hear that I talk andreason as you do? That is quite true, said the fisherman; and as I see that you are a fish possessed ofthe talent of talking and reasoning, I will treatyou with all the attention that is your due. And this attention?. . In token of my friendship and particular. WHAT SPECIES OF FISH is THIS. I .1-ATJ PINOCCHIO 155 regard, I will leave you the choice of how youwould like to be cooked. Would you like tobe fried in the frying-pan, or would you preferto be stewed with tomato sauce? To tell the truth, answered Pinocchio, if I am to choose, I should prefer to be setat liberty and to return home. You are joking! Do you imagine thatI would lose the opportunity of tasting such arare fish? It is not every day, I assure you,that a puppet fish is caught in these it to me. I will fry you with the otherfish, and you will be quite satisfied. It isalways consolation to be fried in company. At this speech the unhappy Pinocchio be-gan to cry and scream and to implore formercy; and he said, sobbing: How much bet-ter it would have been if I had gone to school!... I would listen to my companions and nowI am paying for it! Ih!... Ih!... Ih!... And he wriggled like an eel, and made in-describable efforts to slip out of the clutchesof the gr
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