Page 35 - La Gatta racconta la sua storia - Puss Tells the History of Her Fairy Tale

fter that unhappy ending I left
Naples and Lombardy and on and
on and on I walked. About sixty
years later I arrived exhausted in
Paris. I was not in the mood to
help anyone, least of all to hold a
fine conversation, because Basile had made me sure
of this: to do good to donkeys you get kicks in
exchange.
I also lost my passion for hunting, and I often
starved, like so many poor French men and women,
while their immensely rich king lived in the Château
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