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

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  Chapter nineteen, Pinocchio is robbed of his gold pieces, and in punishment his
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  sentence to four months in prison. If the marionette had been told to wait
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  a day instead of twenty minutes, the time could not have seemed longer to
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  him. He walked impatiently to and fro, and finally turned his nose toward
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  the field of wonders. As he walked with hurried steps, his heart beat
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  with an excited tic tac, just as if it were a wall clock,
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  and his busy brain kept thinking, what if instead of a thousand, I
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  should find two thousand, or instead of two thousand, I should find five
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  thousand or one hundred thousand. I'll build myself a beautiful palace with a thousand
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  stables filled with thousand wooden horses to play with, a cellar overflowing with lemonade
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  and ice cream soda, and a library of candies and fruits and cakes and
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  cookies. Thus amusing himself with fancies, he came to the field. There
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  he stopped to see if, by chance a vine filled with gold coins was
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  in sight, but he saw nothing. He took a few steps forward,
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  and still nothing. He stepped onto the field. He went up to the
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  place where he had dug the hole and buried the gold pieces. Again nothing.
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  Pinocchiovi became very thoughtful, and forgetting his good manners altogether. He pulled
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  a hand out of his pocket and gave his head a thorough scratching. As
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  he did so, he heard a heart he burst of laughter close to his
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  head. He turned sharply, and there just above him, on the branch
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  of a tree sat a long, large parrot, busily preening his feathers.
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  What are you laughing at, Pinocchio asked peevishly. I'm laughing because in preening
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  my feathers I tickled myself under the wings. The marionette did not answer.
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  He walked to the brook, filled his shoe with water, and once more
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  sprinkled the ground, which covered the gold pieces. Again, another burst of
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  laughter, even more impertinent than the first, was heard in a quiet field.
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  Well, cried the marionette angrily this time. May I know, mister
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  parrot, what amuses you? So? I'm laughing at those simpletons who believe
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  everything they hear, and who allow themselves to be caught so easily in the
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  trap set for them. Do you perhaps mean me? I certainly do mean,
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  you, poor Pinocchio, You are such a little silly as to believe
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  that gold can be sown in a field, just like beans and squash.
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  I too believe that once, and today I'm very sorry for it. Today,
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  but too late I have reached the conclusion that in order to come by
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  money honestly, one must work and know how to earn it with hand or
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  brain. I don't know what you're talking about, said the marionette, who
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  was beginning to tremble with fear. Too bad, I'll explain myself better,
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  said the parrot. While you are away in the city. The fox and
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  the cat returned here in a great hurry. They took the four gold pieces
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  which you had buried, and ran away as fast as the wind. If
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  you can catch them, you're a brave one. Pinocchio's mouth opened wide.
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  He would not believed the parrot's words, and began to dig furiously at the
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  earth. He dug, and he dug it till the hole was as big
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  as himself, but no money was there. Every benny was gone. In
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  desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report
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  the robbery to the magistrate. The judge was a monkey, a large gorilla,
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  venerable with age. A flowing white beard covered his chest, and he
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  wore gold rimmed spectacles from which the glasses had dropped out. The reason for
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  wearing these, he said, was that his eyes had been weakened by the
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  work of many years. Pinocchio, standing before him, told his pitiful tale
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  word by word. He gave the names and descriptions of the robbers, and
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  baked for justice. The judge listened to him with great patience. A kind
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  look shone in his eyes. He became very much interested to the stray.
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  He felt moved. He almost wept. When the marionette had no more to
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  say, the judge put out his hand and rang a bell. At the
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  sound, two large mastiffs appeared, wearing Carboneer's uniforms. Then the magistrate,
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  pointing to Pinocchio, said, in a solemn voice, this poor simpleton has
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  been robbed of four gold pieces. Take him therefore, and throw him in
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  prison. The marionette, on hearing this sentence passed on him, was thoroughly
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  stunned. He tried to protest, but the two officers clapped their paws on
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  his mouth and puzzled him away to jail. There he had to remain four
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  long, weary months, and if it not been for a very lucky chance,
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  he probably would have to stay there longer. For my dear child,
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  it is you must know that it happened just as the young emperor who ruled
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  over the city of simple Simons and gain to victory over his enemy. In
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  celebration thereof, he ordered illuminations, fireworks shows of all kinds, and best
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  of all, the opening of all prison doors. If the others go,
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  I go too, said Pinocchio to the jailer, and not you, answered
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  the jailer, you are one of those. I beg your pardon, interrupted
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  Pinocchio. I do am a thief. In that case, you are free
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  to go, said the jailer. Taking off his cap, he bowed low.
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  He opened the door the prison, and Pinocchio ran out and away,
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  with never a look backward. End of Chapter nineteen.