Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

were burnt off. The moment, therefore, that he heard his father's voice he slipped off his stool to

as as if a sack of wooden ladles h

shouted Geppett

ered the puppet, crying and

can't

feet have

as eaten y

cat, who was amusing herself by making

ppetto. "If you don't, when I get into t

oor me! poor me! I shall have to walk

er of the puppet's tricks, thought of a means of putting an

d and really without feet he was quite overcome. He took him in his arms and began to kiss and caress him

! how did you manage

ed, but the fault was his, for I didn't wish to kill him, and the proof of it is that I put an earthenware saucer on a brazier of burning embers, but a chicken flew out and said: 'Adieu until we meet again, and many compliments to all at home': and I got still more hungry, for which reason that little old man in a night-cap, opening the window, said to me: 'Come underneath and hold out your hat,' and poured a

od one thing, which was that the puppet was dying of hunger,

kfast, but I will give them to you willingly

t them, be kind enoug

ty and fastidious. That is bad! In this world we should accustom ourselves from childhood to like a

occhio, "but I will never eat fruit that

three pears and put the ri

inocchio was about to throw away the core, but

; in this world every

l not eat," shouted the puppet,

y chances!" repeated Geppett

wn out of the window, were placed on the corn

the three pears, Pinocchio yawned tremen

hungry

have nothing m

, really

ind and the cores

d Pinocchio; "if there is not

ickly disposed of the rinds: and after the rinds even the cores, and when he had eaten

I feel co

id not do to accustom ourselves to be too particular or too dainty in our tastes.