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34 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty four, Pinocchio is thrown into the sea, eaten
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  Speaker 1: by fishes, and becomes a marionette once more. As he
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  Speaker 1: swims to land, he is swallowed by the terrible shark.
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  Speaker 1: Down into the sea. Deeper and deeper sank Pinocchio. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: after fifty minutes of waiting, the man on the cliff
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  Speaker 1: said to himself, by this time, my poor little lame
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  Speaker 1: donkey must be drowned up with him, and then I
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  Speaker 1: can get to work on my beautiful drum. He pulled
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  Speaker 1: the rope which he had tied to Pinocchio's leg, pulled
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  Speaker 1: and pulled and pulled, and at last he saw a
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  Speaker 1: peer on the surface of the water. Can you guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Instead of a dead donkey, he saw very much alive marionette,
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  Speaker 1: wriggling and squirming like an eel. Seeing that wooden marionette,
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  Speaker 1: the poor man thought he was dreaming, and sat there
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  Speaker 1: with his mouth wide open and his eyes popping out
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  Speaker 1: of his head. Gathering his wits together, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: the donkey I threw into the sea, I am that
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  Speaker 1: dog donkey, answered the marionette, laughing, you I ah, you
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  Speaker 1: little cheat. Are you poking fun at me? Poking fun
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  Speaker 1: at you, Not at all, dear master, I am talking seriously.
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  Speaker 1: But then, how is it that you, who a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago were a donkey, are now standing before me
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  Speaker 1: a wooden marionette. It may be the effect of salt water.
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  Speaker 1: The sea is fond of playing these tricks. Be careful, marionette,
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  Speaker 1: be careful. Don't laugh at me. Woe will be to
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  Speaker 1: you if I lose my patience. Well, then, my master,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to know my whole story? Untie my leg,
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  Speaker 1: and I can tell it to you better. The old fellow,
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  Speaker 1: curious to know the true story of the marionette's life,
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  Speaker 1: immediately untied the rope which held his foot. Pinocchio, feeling
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  Speaker 1: free as a bird of the air, began his tail.
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  Speaker 1: Know then that once upon a time I was a
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  Speaker 1: wooden marionette, just as I am to day. One day
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  Speaker 1: I was about to become a boy, a real boy.
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  Speaker 1: But on account of my laziness and my hatred of books,
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  Speaker 1: and because I listened to bad companions, I ran away
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  Speaker 1: from home. When beautiful morning I awoke to find myself
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  Speaker 1: changed into a donkey, long ears, gray coat, even a tail.
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  Speaker 1: What a shameful day for me? I hope you will
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  Speaker 1: never experience one like it. Dear master. I was taken
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  Speaker 1: to the fair and sold to a circus owner who
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  Speaker 1: tried to make me dance and jump through the rings.
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  Speaker 1: One night, during a performance, I had a bad fall
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  Speaker 1: and became lame. Not knowing what to do with a
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  Speaker 1: lame donkey, the circus owner sent me to the market place,
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  Speaker 1: and you bought me. Indeed I did, and I paid
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  Speaker 1: four cents for you. Now who will return my money
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  Speaker 1: to me? But why did you buy me? You bought
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  Speaker 1: me to do me harm, to kill me, to make
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  Speaker 1: a drumhead out of me. Indeed I did. And now
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  Speaker 1: where shall I find another skin? Never mind, dear master,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many donkeys in this world. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: impudent little rogue, does your story end here? One more word,
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  Speaker 1: answered the marionette, and I am through. After buying me,
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  Speaker 1: you brought me here to kill me, but feeling sorry
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  Speaker 1: for me, you tied a stone to my neck and
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  Speaker 1: threw me to the bottom of the sea. That was
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  Speaker 1: very good and kind of you to want me to
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  Speaker 1: suffer as little as possible. And I shall remember you always,
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  Speaker 1: and now my fairy will take care of me, even
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  Speaker 1: if you your fairy. Who is she? She is my mother,
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  Speaker 1: and like all mothers who love their children, she never
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  Speaker 1: loses sight of me, even though I do not deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: And to day, this good fairy of mine, as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she saw me in danger of drowning, sent a
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  Speaker 1: thousand fishes to the spot where I lay. They thought
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  Speaker 1: I was really a dead donkey, and began to eat me.
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  Speaker 1: What great bites they took. One ate my ears, another
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  Speaker 1: my nose, a third my neck and my mane. Some
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  Speaker 1: went at my legs, and some at my back. And
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  Speaker 1: among the others there was one tiny fish, so gentle
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  Speaker 1: and polite that he did me the great favor of
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  Speaker 1: eating even my tail. From now on, said the man, horrified.
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  Speaker 1: I swear I shall never go and taste fish. How
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  Speaker 1: I should enjoy opening a mullet or a white fish,
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  Speaker 1: just to find there the tail of a dead donkey.
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  Speaker 1: I think as you do, answered the marionette, laughing. Still,
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  Speaker 1: you must know that when the fish finished eating my
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  Speaker 1: donkey coat, which covered me from head to foot, they
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  Speaker 1: naturally came to the bones, or rather, in my case,
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  Speaker 1: to the wood, for as you know, I am made
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  Speaker 1: of very hard wood. After the first few bites those
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  Speaker 1: greedy fish found out that the wood was not good
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  Speaker 1: for their teeth, and afraid of indigestion, they turned and
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  Speaker 1: ran here and there, without saying good bye or even
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  Speaker 1: as much as thank you to me Here, dear master,
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  Speaker 1: you have my story. You know now why you found
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  Speaker 1: a marionette and not a dead donkey when you pulled
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  Speaker 1: me out of the water. I laugh at your story,
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  Speaker 1: cried the man angrily. I know that I spent four
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  Speaker 1: cents to get you, and I want my money back.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I can do. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take you to the market once more and sell you
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  Speaker 1: as dry firewood. Very well, sell me. I am satisfied,
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  Speaker 1: said Pinocchio. But as he spoke, he gave a quick
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  Speaker 1: leap and dived into the sea, swimming away as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could. He cried out, laughing, good bye master.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever need a skin for your drum, remember me.
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  Speaker 1: He swam on and on. After a while, he turned
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  Speaker 1: around again and called, louder than before, goodbye master. If
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  Speaker 1: you ever need a piece of good dry firewood, remember me.
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  Speaker 1: In a few seconds, he had gone so far he
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  Speaker 1: could hardly be seen. All that could be seen of
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  Speaker 1: him was a very small black dot moving swiftly on
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  Speaker 1: the blue surface of the water, A little black dot
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  Speaker 1: which now and then lifted a leg or an arm
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  Speaker 1: in the air. One would have thought that Pinocchio had
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  Speaker 1: turned into a porpoise playing in the sun. After swimming
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, Pinocchio saw a large rock in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the sea, a rock as white as marble.
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  Speaker 1: High on the rock stood a little goat, bleating and
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  Speaker 1: calling and beckoning to the marionette to come to her.
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  Speaker 1: There was something very strange about that little goat. Her
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  Speaker 1: coat was not white or black or brown as that
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  Speaker 1: of any other goat, but as a deep, brilliant color
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  Speaker 1: that reminded one of the hair of the lovely maiden.
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  Speaker 1: Pinocchio's heart beat fast and then faster and faster. He
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  Speaker 1: redoubled his efforts and swam as hard as he could
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  Speaker 1: toward the white rock. He was almost half way over
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly a horrible sea monster stuck its head out
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  Speaker 1: of the water, an enormous head with a huge mouth
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  Speaker 1: wide open, showing three rows of gleaming teeth, the mere
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  Speaker 1: sight of which would have filled you with fear. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what it was? That sea monster was no
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  Speaker 1: other than the enormous shark, which has often been mentioned
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  Speaker 1: in this story, and which, on account of its cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: has been nicknamed the Attila of the sea by both
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  Speaker 1: fish and fishermen. Poor Pinocchio, the sight of that monster
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  Speaker 1: frightened him almost to death. He tried to swim away
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  Speaker 1: from him, to change his path to escape, but that
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  Speaker 1: immense mouth kept coming nearer and nearer. Hasten, Pinocchio, I
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  Speaker 1: beg you bleeded the little goat on the high rock,
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  Speaker 1: and Pinocchio swam desperately with his arms, his body, his legs,
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  Speaker 1: his feet. Quick, Pinocchio, The monster is coming nearer. Pinocchio
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  Speaker 1: swam faster and faster, and harder and harder. Faster, Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: the monster would get you there. He is there, he
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  Speaker 1: is quick. Quicker, you were lost. Pinocchio went through the
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  Speaker 1: water like a shot, swifter and swifter. He came close
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  Speaker 1: to the rock. The goat leaned over and gave him
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  Speaker 1: one of her hoofs to help him out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: Alas it was too late. The monster overtook him, and
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  Speaker 1: the marionette found himself in between the rows of gleaming
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  Speaker 1: white teeth. Only for a moment, however, for the shark
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  Speaker 1: took a deep breath, and as he breathed, he drank
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  Speaker 1: in the marionette as easily as he would have sucked
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  Speaker 1: an egg. Then he swallowed him so fast that Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: falling down into the body of the fish, lay stunned
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  Speaker 1: for half an hour. When he recovered his senses, the
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  Speaker 1: marionette could not remember where he was. Around him, all
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  Speaker 1: was darkness, a darkness so deep and so black that
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  Speaker 1: for a moment he thought he had put his head
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  Speaker 1: into an inkwall. He listened for a few moments and
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing. Once in a while, a cold wind blew
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  Speaker 1: on his face. At first, he could not understand where
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  Speaker 1: that wind was coming from, but after a while he
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  Speaker 1: understood that it came from the lungs of the monster.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you that the shark was suffering
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  Speaker 1: from asthma, so that whenever he breathed, a storm seemed
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  Speaker 1: to blow. Pinocchio at first tried to be brave, but
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he became convinced that he was really
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  Speaker 1: and truly in the shark's stomach, he burst into sobs
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  Speaker 1: and tears. Help help, he cried, Oh, poor me, Will
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  Speaker 1: someone come to save me? Who is there to help you,
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  Speaker 1: unhappy boy, said a rough voice, like a guitar out
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  Speaker 1: of tune. Who is talking, said Pinocchio, frozen with terror.
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  Speaker 1: It is I a poor tunny swallowed by the shark
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  Speaker 1: at the same time as you. And what kind of
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  Speaker 1: a fish are you? I have nothing to do with fishes.
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  Speaker 1: I am a marionette. If you are not a fish,
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  Speaker 1: why did you let this monster swallow you? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: let him. He chased me and swallowed me without even
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  Speaker 1: a by your leave? And now what are we to
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  Speaker 1: do here in the dark? Wait until the shark has
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  Speaker 1: digested us both, I suppose. But I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be digested, shouted Pinocchio, starting to sob. Neither do, I,
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  Speaker 1: said the tunny. But I am wise enough to think
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  Speaker 1: that if one is born a fish, it is more
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  Speaker 1: dignified to die under the water than in the frying pan.
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  Speaker 1: What nonsense, cried Pinocchio. Mine is an opinion, replied the tunny,
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  Speaker 1: and opinion should be respected. But I want to get
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  Speaker 1: out of this place. I want to escape. Go if
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  Speaker 1: you can. Is this shark that has swallowed us very long?
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  Speaker 1: Asked the marionette, his body not counting the tail, is
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  Speaker 1: almost a mile long. While talking in the darkness, Pinocchio
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  Speaker 1: thought he saw a faint light in the distance. What
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  Speaker 1: can that be, he said to the Tunny, some other
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  Speaker 1: fish waiting as patiently as we to be digested by
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  Speaker 1: the shark. I want to see him. He may be
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  Speaker 1: an old fish and may know some way of escape.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you all good luck, dear Marionette, goodbye honey,
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  Speaker 1: goodbye Marionette, and good luck. When shall I see you again?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? It is better not to think about it?
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter thirty four.