"You rich!" said the fox and laughed rudely. The cat laughed too, but to conceal it she stroked her whiskers with her front paws.
"What are you laughing at?" asked Pinocchio, taken aback. "I don't like to make you envy me, but here as you can see, are five beautiful pieces of gold." And from his pocket he pulled the money that Fire Eater had given him. At the sound of the gold clinking together the fox involuntarily stretched out his lame paw, and the cat opened wide both eyes like big green lamps, but all so quickly that Pinocchio saw nothing of it.
"And now," said the fox, "what do you intend to do with all that money?"
"First of all," replied the marionette, "I shall buy a coat for my father, all covered with gold and silver and diamond buttons on it. Then I shall buy a new A B C book for myself."
"For yourself?"
"Yes indeed. I want to go to school and begin studying."
