The Serpent with the tail that smoked started to laugh and a vein in his chest broke and so I went back to the Fairy's house.

She was dead, and the Pigeon, seeing me crying, said to me, 'I have seen your father building a boat to look for you in America,' and I said to him, 'Oh, if I only had wings!' and he said to me, 'Do you want to go to your father ?' and I said, 'Perhaps, but how ?' and he said, 'Get on my back.

I'll take you there.' We flew all night long, and next morning the fishermen were looking toward the sea, crying, 'There is a poor little man drowning,' and I knew it was you, because my heart told me so and I waved to you from the shore--" "I knew you also," put in Geppetto, "and I wanted to go to you; but how could I?
The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat.

Then a Terrible Shark came up out of the sea and, as soon as he saw me in the water, swam quickly toward me, put out his tongue, and swallowed me as easily as if I had been a chocolate peppermint." "And how long have you been shut away in here ?" "From that day to this, two long weary years--two years, my Pinocchio, which have been like two centuries." "And how have you lived?
Where did you find the candle?
And the matches with which to light it--where did you get them ?" "You must know that, in the storm which swamped my boat, a large ship also suffered the same fate.

The sailors were all saved, but the ship went right to the bottom of the sea, and the same Terrible Shark that swallowed me, swallowed most of it." "What! Swallowed a ship ?" asked Pinocchio in astonishment.
"At one gulp.