e Two Beasts Sing

tol, like-the wolf kept at the cost of the City Commune. If Francis Joseph had seen him he would have appointed him at once as royal hangman becaus

he made even Pinocchio laugh, whom the charge

t some day with my kitchen knife as if they were pigs, and so you will be freed from the

you c

hy

my captain said? We

sing that's of bronze and won't move from the Capitol for fear

out already what

to

's h

ig

the real name of the Croat is St

d t

thers behind them; how many pieces of artillery they have and where; from what point t

easiest thin

think

m and they w

y pretend n

n by the deaf. I didn't read for nothing The Spanish Inquisition. Bring to me her

ions, filled up the little stove with charcoal and lighted a fine fire. When Pinocchio returned to the

e Hungarian exchanged glances and a fe

f them, bowed like an actor to an applauding audienc

and my superiors would say to me, 'Ciampanella, you're right.' I explain this because we have need of certain information, so we take the liberty of asking you in secret certain things which you, gentlemen, can answer, after which w

ans

understand modern Italian? Then

and waved it before the Austrians' noses. Their eyes

e you two kisses with the shovel on y

pigs! B

me a brigand! Me! Pinocchio, whic

ra

tie your hands and then I'll give you so many boxes on your

s, we die m

he plural; wait till I put this red-h

with his other heated iron, but suddenly he

hey c

had to hold his stomach. Ciampanella, who had been taken unaware by the

enemies the respect enjoined by regulations, but you I can take by the nape of

omulus and Remus had had the slightest idea of the kick which menaced him at this moment he would have grown calm as if by magic. But Pinocchio, who had seen Franz and Stolz exchange sly glances

to roast me o

told

cook something on it for

o command me to. When the company is in action I am free to do what I want, and when I am free to do what I want I don't do

was an ancient Roman able to make things clearer than modern

ause as sure as Ciampanella is my name I

not insul

ind of things are pr

for nothing, and so if, for example, the commander-in-chief should pay you a visit he would give you a fortnight's imprisonment for it, because when t

or culinary purposes, but for strategic rea

y haven'

out and let the

and tongs, had roasted a young pullet and s

Roman style with

his greased whiskers as if the pot

t Franz

unger, and in order

a magnificent idea! When I write my Manual of War Cookery I'll put you on the frontispiece as the first of kitchen strategians. Leave

young fowls, peeling potatoes, frying lard and onions, melting butter in a saucepan, preparing a stew in another, Pinocchio was striding up and down the kitchen, long and narrow as a corridor, eying stealthily the two prisoners,

s without paying any attention to Pinocchio, but talking in a loud v

strogothic fashion ... but that's the way. Take two young fowls and cut them into pieces, put a good-sized lump of butter into a saucepan and a little onion and fry it a little; dredge the fowls with flour, and put them to simmer in the butter; when they are browned put in some tom

of flesh and blood and had no other defect than of having been born under the Executioner's scepter. Stolz with his mouth wide open breathed in the air in deep breaths, tasting it h

re not reduced to gnawing bones like you who make war in order to fish, as the proverb says, in troubled waters. What

half strangled with nausea an

r head in spite of the respect they teach us is due

e right moment, "if the chickens are done we could

good idea,

who exchanged significant glances. The sound came from our six-inch guns that had been dragged with such effort to the altitude of nine thousand feet and arrived the day before b

t imbecile of a Stolz, instead of standing there like a dog with his tongue hanging out, a foot away from the tail

er give him the chicke

tolz risked saying, passing

uess

ut half a chicken with gravy and a loaf of

don't want to be

u anything to eat and we are quits. But I haven't asked you to betray ei

peaks onl

ver, I'll wager five soldi of Victor Emanuel against a crown of your emperor that if they were here and smelled this odor they wouldn't make such a to-do about it or talk like lawyers. But smell this" ... and while

e and Franz all we can eat and drink

," cried Ciampanella, jumping about with delight. He hastened to fill two plates with delicious food and tw

do except to untie your hands a

e dug and thought to blow up Alpines to bust them all up. This morning we attacked on purpose. When Alpines came face to us, we go all back to retreat, but they not come to mined spot and didn't all bust up. But when A

to play with you. In the mean time pray to the god of all the Croats that what you have said may not be true, because if, instead of making war as real soldiers do,

arms about violently, he took up a piece of rope and bound the p

'll do well, I assure you.... Come, Pinocchio, we must take this news to the offic

he pri

t up against it one of the bombs that they make which go off almost without touching them. I know where some of them are hidden away. If they should succeed

and Pinocchio were running ac