Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

Author: Carlo Collodi

Chapter 1 THE PIECE OF WOOD THAT LAUGHED AND CRIED LIKE A CHILD

Word Count: 581 | Released on: 01/12/2017

med Master Antonio. Everybody, however, called him Master Cherry, on account

d than his face beamed with delight, and, rubbing his ha

ht moment; it will just do to

rough surface, but just as he was going to give the first stroke he

w nobody! He looked under the bench-nobody; he looked into a cupboard that was always shut-nobody; he looked into a basket of shavin

ching his wig, "evidently that little voice wa

he struck a tremendous b

me!" cried the same l

ained open, and his tongue hung out almost to the end of his chin, like a mask on a fountain. As s

t like a child? I cannot believe it. This piece of wood is nothing but a log for fuel like all the others, and thrown on the fire it would about suffice

f wood and commenced beating it witho

tle voice lamenting. He waited two minutes-nothing

nd pushing up his wig; "evidently the little voice that said

polish the bit of wood; but whilst he was running it up

re tickling

ad been struck by lightning. When he at last open

nose, instead of being crimson, as it was

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“The Piece of Wood That Laughed and Cried Like a Child Master Cherry Gives the Wood Away Geppetto Names His Puppet Pinocchio The Talking-Cricket Scolds Pinocchio The Flying Egg Pinocchio's Feet Burn to Cinders Geppetto Gives His Own Breakfast to Pinocchio Geppetto Makes Pinocchio New Feet Pinocchio Goes To See a Puppet-Show The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio Fire-Eater Sneezes and Pardons Pinocchio Pinocchio Receives a Present of Five Gold Pieces The Inn of the Red Craw-Fish Pinocchio Falls Among Assassins The Assassins Hang Pinocchio to the Big Oak The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet Pinocchio Will Not Take His Medicine Pinocchio Again Meets the Fox and the Cat Pinocchio Is Robbed of His Money Pinocchio Starts Back to the Fairy's House Pinocchio Acts as Watch-dog Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers Pinocchio Flies to the Seashore Pinocchio Finds the Fairy Again Pinocchio Promises the Fairy To Be Good The Terrible Dog-Fish Pinocchio Is Arrested by the Gendarmes Pinocchio Escapes Being Fried Like a Fish He Returns to the Fairy's House The "Land of Boobies" Pinocchio Enjoys Five Months of Happiness Pinocchio Turns Into a Donkey Pinocchio Is Trained for the Circus Pinocchio Is Swallowed by the Dog-Fish A Happy Surprise for Pinocchio Pinocchio at Last Ceases to Be a Puppet and Becomes a Boy”