. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . trustle of leaves behind him. He turned to look, and saw in the gloom twoevil-looking black figures completely enveloped incharcoal sacks. They were running after him ontiptoe, and making great leaps like two phantoms. Here they are in reality ! he said to himself,and not knowing where to hide his gold pieces he putthem in his mouth precisely under his tongue. Then he tried to escape. But he had not gonea step when he felt himself seized by the arm, andheard two horrid sepulchral voices saying to him : u Your money or your life ! Pinocchio, not being able t
. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . trustle of leaves behind him. He turned to look, and saw in the gloom twoevil-looking black figures completely enveloped incharcoal sacks. They were running after him ontiptoe, and making great leaps like two phantoms. Here they are in reality ! he said to himself,and not knowing where to hide his gold pieces he putthem in his mouth precisely under his tongue. Then he tried to escape. But he had not gonea step when he felt himself seized by the arm, andheard two horrid sepulchral voices saying to him : u Your money or your life ! Pinocchio, not being able to answer in words,owing to the money that was in his mouth, made athousand low bows and a thousand pantomimes. Hetried thus to make the two muffled figures, whoseeyes were only visible through the holes in their THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 77 sacks, understand that he was a poor puppet, and thathe had not as much as a false farthing in his pocket. Come now ! Less nonsense and out with themoney ! cried the two brigands The puppet madt a gesture with his hands to signify : 1 have got none. And the puppet made a gesture with his hands tosignify : I have got none. Deliver up your money or you are dead, saidthe tallest of the brigands. Dead ! repeated the other. And after we have killed you, we will also killyour father. Also your father! 78 THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO u No, no, no, not my poor papa ! cried Pinocchioin a despairing tone; and as he said it, thesovereigns clinked in his mouth. Ah! you rascal! Then you have hiddenyour money under your tongue! Spit it out atonce! But Pinocchio was obdurate. Ah ! you pretend to be deaf, do you ? Wait amoment, leave it to us to find a means to make youspit it out. And one of them seized the puppet by the end ofhis nose, and the other took him by the chin, andbegan to pull them brutally, the one up and theother down, to constrain him to open his it was all to no purpose. Pinocchios mouthseemed to be nailed and riv
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