"Then what made you steal another person's things?"
"I was hungry."
"Hunger, my boy, is never a good excuse for stealing something belonging to another."
"I know it! I know it!" wailed Pinocchio, "and another time I will not do it."
Just then the conversation was interrupted by the sound of footsteps that came nearer and nearer. The owner of the field had come to see if one of the weasels that were eating his chickens had been caught in the trap, and he was greatly surprised, when, taking out a dark lantern from under his coat, he saw instead of a weasel, a boy puppet.
"Ha, you little thief!" cried the angry farmer, "So you are the one that has been carrying off my chickens!"
"I? No,” cried Pinocchio, sobbing. “I came into the field for a bunch of grapes."
"He who steals grapes is quite capable of stealing chickens too. Just you wait. I will give you a lesson that you will remember for some time."
