but it was too late, and he found himself in a great net filled with fishes of every kind, flapping and struggling. At the same time he saw coming from the cave a fisherman so ugly that he seemed to be some kind of sea monster. Instead of hair his head was covered with a thick mat of green seaweed; his skin was green; his eyes were green and his long beard too. He looked like a big lizard standing on its hind legs. When the strange fisherman had pulled in the net he gave a great cry of satisfaction: "Thank fortune! Today I shall have a splendid feast of fish."
"It is a good thing I am not a fish," Pinocchio said to himself, regaining his courage.
The monster carried the net into the cave, which was dark and smoky. In the center was a fire, and over it sizzled a frying pan full of oil.
"Now let us see what kind of fish I have caught today" said the green fisherman, and reaching out a hand as big as a shovel he drew out a number of mullets.
"These are beautiful mullets," he said looking at them with satisfaction and after examining them carefully he threw them
