Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

k under his arm. As he went along he began to imagine a thousand things in his little

g to himsel

e first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have dia

he heard music in the distance that sounded like fifes and t

e from the end of a cross street that l

What a pity that I have t

necessary to come to a decision. Should he

orrow I will go to school," finally decided

nds of the fifes and the beating of the

e full of people, who were all crowded round a building

Pinocchio, turning to a littl

is all written-and

but it so happens that tod

it to you. The writing on that pla

t Puppet

play be

beginni

oes it cost

dim

all control of himself, and without any shame h

d me a dime un

said the other, "but it so happens

cket for a dime," the

of flowered paper? If there were rain and it got

u buy my

y be of use to

l you give me

cap of bread crumb! There would be a risk of th

g another offer, but he had not the courage. He hesit

a dime for this

s," replied his little interlocutor,

," called out a hawker of old clothes, w

Geppetto had remained at home trembling with cold in his sh