Page:Collodi - The Story of a Puppet, translation Murray, 1892.djvu/214



Pinocchio had been fifty minutes under the water his purchaser said aloud to himself:

'My poor little lame donkey must by this time be quite drowned. I will therefore pull him out of the water, and I will make a fine drum of his skin.'

And he began to haul in the rope that he had tied to the donkey's leg; and he