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Pinocchio in the Trap

legs so violently the Serpent was seized with convulsions of laughter. He laughed and laughed and laughed with such force, that he broke a vein and perished. And this time he really was dead.

Pinocchio started on a run along the road, hoping to reach the house of the Fairy before dark. Before long, however, he began to be hungry, and he jumped into a field nearby to gather a bunch of grapes. And here again he was unlucky. For hardly had he reached the grape arbor when—crack —his legs were caught between two pieces of iron with a force that made him see several new stars in the heavens. The poor marionette was fast in a trap placed there by a farmer to catch a thieving weasel that was the scourge of his poultry yards.