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XXXIII
Pinocchio, having become a genuine little donkey, is taken to be sold, and is bought by the director of a company of buffoons to be taught to dance, and to jump through hoops: but one evening he lames himself, and then he is bought by a man who purposes to make a drum of his skin.
Finding that the door remained shut the little man burst it open with a violent kick, and coming into the room he said to Pinocchio and Candlewick with his usual little laugh:
'Well done, boys! You brayed well, and I recognised you by your voices. That is why I am here.'
At these words the two little donkeys were quite stupefied, and stood with their
