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17 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books Collection

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  Chapter seventeen, Pinocchio eats sugar but refuses to take medsin. When the undertakers
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  come for him, he drinks the medsin and feels better. Afterwards, he
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  tells a lie, and in punishment, his nose grows longer and longer.
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  As soon as the three doctors had left the room, the fairy went to
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  Pinocchio's bed, and, touching him on the forehead, noticed that he was
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  burning with fever. She took a glass of water, put a white powder
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  into it, and, handing it to the marionette, said lovingly to him,
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  drink this, and in a few days you'll be up and well.
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  Pinocchio looked at the glass, made a wry face and asked, in a
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  whining voice, is it sweet or bitter? It is bitter, but it
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  is good for you. If it is bitter, I don't want it.
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  Drink it. I don't like anything bitter. Drink it, and I'll give
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  you a lump of sugar to take the bitter taste from your mouth. Where's
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  the sugar here it is, said the fairy, taking a lump from a
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  golden sugar bowl. I want the sugar first, then I'll drink the bitter
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  water. Do you promise yes? The fairy gave him the sugar, and
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  Pinocchio, after chewing and swallowing it in a twinkling, said, smacking his
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  lips, if only sugar were medsin, I should take it every day.
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  Now keep your promise and drink these few drops of water. They'll be good
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  for you. Pinocchio took the glass in both hands and stuck his nose into
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  it. He lifted it to his mouth and once more stuck his nose into
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  it. It is too bitter, much, too bitter. I can't drink
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  it. How do you know when you haven't even tasted it. I can
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  imagine it, I smell it. I want another lump of sugar, then
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  I'll drink it. The fairy, with all the patience of a good mother,
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  gave him more sugar and again handed him the glass. I can't drink
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  it like that, the marionette said, making more wry faces. Why because
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  that feather pillow on my feet bothers me. The fairy took away the pillow.
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  It's no use. I can't drink it even now. What's the matter
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  now? I don't like the way that door looks. It's half open.
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  The fairy closed the door. I won't drink it, cried Pinocchio, bursting
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  out crying, I won't drink this awful water. I won't, I won't.
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  No, no, no, no, my boy, you'll be sorry.
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  I don't care. You are very sick. I don't care. In
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  a few hours, the fever will take you far away to another world.
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  I don't care. Aren't you afraid of death? Not a bit. I'd
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  rather die than drink that awful metsin. At that moment, the door of
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  the room flew open, and in came four rabbits as black as ink,
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  carrying a small black coffin on their shoulders. What do you want from me,
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  Pinocchio? We have come for you, said the largest rabbit. For
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  me. But I'm not dead yet. No, not dead yet, but
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  you will be in a few moments, since you have refused to take the
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  mets in, which would have made you well. O fairy, my fairy.
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  The marionette cried out, give me that glass quick, please. I
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  don't want to die. No, no, not yet, not yet,
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  And holding the glass with his two hands, he swallowed the mets in at
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  one gulp. Well, said the four rabbits. This time we have made
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  the trip for nothing, and turning on their heels, they marched solemnly out
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  of the room, carrying their little black coffin and mutter and grumbling between their
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  teeth. In a twinkling Pinocchio felt fine. With one leap, he was
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  out of bed and into his clothes. The fairy, seeing him run and
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  jump around the room gay as a bird on a wing, said to him,
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  My medicin was good for you after all, wasn't it good? Indeed,
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  it has given me new life. Why then did I have to beg
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  you so hard to make you drink it. I'm a boy, you see,
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  and all boys hate medsin more than they do sickness. What a shame
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  boys ought to know after all that medsin taking in time can save them from
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  much pain and even from death. Next time, I won't have to be
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  begged so hard. I remember those black rabbits with the black coffin on their
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  show, and I'll take the glass and poof down it will go. Come
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  here now and tell me how it came about that you found yourself in the
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  hands of the assassins. It happened that fire eater gave me five gold pieces
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  to give to my father. But on the way, I met a fox
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  and a cat who asked me, do you want the five pieces to become
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  two thousand? And I said yes, And they said, come with us
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  to the Field of Wonders, and I said, let's go. Then they
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  said, let us stop at the Inn of the Red Lobster for dinner,
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  and after midnight we'll set out again. We ate and went to sleep.
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  When I awoke, they were gone, and I started out in the darkness
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  all alone. On the road, I met two assassins dressed in black cold
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  sacks, who said to me your money or your life, and I said,
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  I haven't any money for you. See, I've put my money under
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  my tongue. One of them tried to put his hand in my mouth,
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  and I bit it off and spat it out. But it wasn't a hand,
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  it was a cat's paw. And they ran after me, and I
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  ran and ran till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a
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  rope and hanged me to a tree, saying to morrow we'll come back for
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  you, and you'll be dead and your mouse will be open, and then
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  we'll take the gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue. Where are
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  the gold pieces. Now, the fairy asked, I lost them, answered
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  Pinocchio. But he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
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  As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at
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  least two inches longer. And where did you lose them? In the wood
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  near by? At this second lie, his nose grew a few more inches.
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  If you lost them in the nearby wood, said the fairy, we'll
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  look for them and find them. For everything that is lost there is always
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  found. Ah, now I remember, replied the marionette, becoming more and
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  more confused. I did not lose the gold pieces, but I swallowed them
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  when I drank the medicin. At this third lie, his nose became longer
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  than ever, so long that he could not even turn round. If he
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  turned to the right, he knocked it against the bed, or into the
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  window panes. If he turned to the left, he struck the walls or
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  the door. If he raised it a bit, he almost put the fairy's
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  eyes out. The fairy sat looking at him and laughing. Why do you
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  laugh, the marionette asked her, worried now at the sight of his growing
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  nose, I am laughing at your lies. How do you know I'm lying.
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  Lies, my boy, are known in a moment. There are two
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  kinds of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses. Yours
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  just now happened to have long noses. Pinocchio, not knowing where to hide
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  his shame, tried to escape from the room, but his nose had become
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  so long that he could not get it out of the door. End of
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  Chapter seventeen.