Pinocchio – The Tale of a Puppet

• Példány állapota: jó

„Ah , now I remember”, repied the Marionette, becoming more and more confused. „ I did not lose the gold pieces, but I swallowed them, when I drank a medicine.”

At this third lie, his nose became longer than ever, so long that he could not ever turn around. If he turned to the right, he knocked it against the bed or into the windowpanes, if he turned to the left, he struck the walls or the door, if he raised it a bit, he almost put the Fairy’s eyes out.
The Fairy sat looking at him and laughing.
„Why do you laugh?” the Marionette asked her, worried now at the sight of his growing nose.
„I am laughing at your lies.”
„How do you know i am lying?”
Lies, my boy, are known in a moment. there are two kinds of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses. Yours, just now, happen to have long noses.
Pinocchio, not knowing where to hide his shame, tried to escape from the room, but his nose had become so long that he could not get it out of the door…

• Szerző: Carlo Collodi
• Darab: 1
• Állapot: jó