"A tumbler of milk costs five cents. Begin by giving me the five cents."
"I have not even one cent," replied Pinocchio, grieved and mortified.
"That is bad, puppet," answered the gardener. "If you have not even one cent, I have not even a drop of milk."
"I must have patience!" said Pinocchio, and he turned to go.
"Wait a little," said Giangio. "We can come to an arrangement together. Will you undertake to turn the pumping machine?"
"What is the pumping machine?"
"It is a wooden pole which serves to draw up the water from the cistern to water the vegetables."
"You can try me."
"Well, then, if you will draw a hundred buckets of water, I will give you in compensation a tumbler of milk."
"It is a bargain."