. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . who was not quite awake, didnot notice that his feet had been burned off. Hegave a start and jumped down from his chair so asto run and open the door. Instead, after stagger-ing two or three times, he fell flat on the floor ; andin falling he made the same noise that a sack ofwood would make in falling from the fifth story ofa house. Open the door, cried Geppetto, from the street. I cannot, Father, responded the marionette,weeping and turning over and over on the floor. Why ? 24 PINOCCHIO 25 Because some one has eaten my feet. And who has eaten th
. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . who was not quite awake, didnot notice that his feet had been burned off. Hegave a start and jumped down from his chair so asto run and open the door. Instead, after stagger-ing two or three times, he fell flat on the floor ; andin falling he made the same noise that a sack ofwood would make in falling from the fifth story ofa house. Open the door, cried Geppetto, from the street. I cannot, Father, responded the marionette,weeping and turning over and over on the floor. Why ? 24 PINOCCHIO 25 Because some one has eaten my feet. And who has eaten them ? The cat, said Pinocchio, seeing the cat playingwith a bit of wood. Open the door, I say, repeated Geppetto; ifnot, when I come into the house I shall whip you. I cannot stand up, believe me. Oh ! poor,poor me ! I shall be obliged to walk on my kneesall my life. Geppetto, believing that all the weeping wassimply a trick to deceive him, thought he wouldmake an end of it. So he climbed up the side ofthe house and entered through the —-<.•.- •fS-^r^cLi^^fJJr 20 PINOCCHIO At first he was very angry, but when he sawPinocchio really stretched out on the floor withoutany feet, he felt sorry, and he took him gentlyby the neck and began to caress him. Swallowinga big sob, he said, You dear little Pinocchio !How is it that you have burned off your feet ? I do not know, Papa ; but, believe me, the nighthas been a horrible one, and I shall remember italways. It thundered and lightened and I was sovery hungry ! And the Talking Cricket said tome : < It serves you right ; you have been wickedand you deserve it all. I said to him, Take care,Cricket ; and he said to me, * You are a marionetteand have a wooden head. I then took a hammerand threw it at him and it killed him. Then Iplaced a saucepan on some burning shavings tocook an eggt but when I broke the egg a littlechicken flew out of the shell and said, Good-by,little one. Meanwhile I grew more hungry and ranto a ho
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