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PINOCCHIO 65 frogs, lizards, and other delicacies; he could not touch anything else. He had such a disgust to food, he said, that he could put nothing to his lips. The one who ate the least was Pinocchio. He asked for some walnuts and a hunch of bread, and left everything on his plate. ‘The poor boy, whose thoughts were continually fixed on the Field of miracles, had got in anticipation an indigestion of goid pieces. When they had supped, the Fox said to the host: Dees ee “Give us two good rooms, one for Mr. Pinocchio, and the other for me and my companion. We will snatch a little sleep before we leave. Remember that at midnight we wish to be called to continue our journey.” " Yes, gentlemen,” answered the host, and he winked at the Fox and the Cat, as much as to say: “I know what you are up to. We understand one another! ” No sooner had Pinocchio got into bed than he fell asleep at once and began to dream. And he dreamt that he was in the middle of a field, and the field was full of shrubs covered with clusters of gold sovereigns, and as they swung in the wind they went zin, zin, zin, almost as if they would say: “ Let who will, come and take us." But when Pinocchio was at the most 8
