ons the Marionette and calls it Pinocch

ould not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table. A fireplace full of burning logs was painted on the wall oppo

o took his tools and began to cut a

ke his fortune. I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once-Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mothe

r, the forehead, the eyes. Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and th

eyes, why do

was no

stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched

, but the more he cut, the longer grew that

made t

ed than it began to lau

to angrily; but he might as

say!" he roared in

aughing, but it stu

hing and went on with his work. After the mouth, he made the chin,

felt his wig being pulled off. He glanced up and what did he see? His

nocchio put it on his own head, w

became very sad and downcast, mor

ot yet finished, and you start out by being impudent

iped awa

As soon as they were done, Geppetto fe

"I should have thought of this bef

under the arms and put him on

t move them, and Geppetto held his hand and sho

himself and ran all around the room. He came to the open door

ran in leaps and bounds, his two wooden feet, as they beat on the stone

ple in the street, seeing a wooden Marionette running like

, thought that it might be a runaway colt, and stood bravely in the middle of the

itary p

d tried his best to escape between the le

xtremely long one and seemed made on purpose for th

. Think how he felt when, upon searching for them,

f the neck and take him home. As he was doing so, he

hen we get home, then we

he ground and refused to take another step. On

ne thing, s

ised he doesn't want to go home. Geppetto, no doubt,

t with boys he's a real tyrant. If we leave that poo

io at liberty and dragging Geppetto to prison. The poor old fellow did not know

you a well-behaved Marionette! I deserve it, how

believable story, but you may read it, d