om your
house?"

"You are right, Cricket! Drive me away also! Throw the handle of a
hammer at me, but have pity on my poor papa."

"I will have pity on both father and son, but I wished to remind you of
the ill treatment I received from you, to teach you that in this world,
when it is possible, we should show courtesy to everybody, if we wish it
to be extended to us in our hour of need."

"You are right. Cricket, you are right, and I will bear in mind the
lesson you have given me. But tell me how you managed to buy this
beautiful hut."

"This hut was given to me yesterday by a goat whose wool was of a
beautiful blue color."

"And where has the goat gone?" asked Pinocchio, with lively curiosity.

"I do not know."

"And when will it come back?"

"It will never come back. It went away yesterday in great grief and,
bleating, it seemed to say: 'Poor Pinocchio! I shall never see him more,
for by this time the Dog-Fish must have devoured him!'"

"Did it really say that? Then it was she! It was my dear little Fairy,"
exclaimed Pinocchio, crying and sobbing.

When he had cried for some time he dried his eyes and prepared a
comfortable bed of straw for Geppetto to lie down upon. Then he asked
the Cricket:

"Tell me, little Cricket, where can I find a tumbler of milk for my poor
papa?"

"Three fields off from here there lives a gardener called Giangio, who
keeps cows. Go to him and you will get the milk you are in want of."

Pinocchio ran all the way to Giangio's house, and the gardener asked
him:

"How much milk do you want?"

"I want a tumblerful."

"A tumbler of milk costs five cents. Begin by giving me the five cents."

"I have not even one cent," replied Pinocchio, grieved and mortified.

"That is bad, puppet," answered the gardener. "If you have not even one
cent, I have not even a drop of milk."

"I must have patience!" said Pinocchio, and he turned to go.

"Wait a little," said Giangio. "We can come to an arrangement together.
Will you undertake to turn the pumping machine?"

"What is the pumping machine?"

"It is a wooden pole which serves to draw up the water from the cistern
to water the vegetables."

"You can try me."

"Well, then, if you will draw a hundred buckets of water, I will give
you in compensation a tumbler of milk."

"It is a bargain."

Giangio then led Pinocchio to the kitchen garden and taught him how to
turn the pumping machine. Pinocchio immediately began to work; but