. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . VII Geppetto returns home, makes the puppet new feet,and gives him the breakfast that the poor manhad brought for himself. POOR Pinocchio, whose eyes were still half shutfrom sleep, had not as yet discovered that his feetwere burnt off. The moment, therefore, that heheard his fathers voice he slipped off his stool torun and open the door; but after stumbling twoor three times he fell his whole length on thefloor. And the noise he made in falling was as if a sackof wooden ladles had been thrown from a fifthstory. 44 Open the door! shouted Geppetto from thest
. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . VII Geppetto returns home, makes the puppet new feet,and gives him the breakfast that the poor manhad brought for himself. POOR Pinocchio, whose eyes were still half shutfrom sleep, had not as yet discovered that his feetwere burnt off. The moment, therefore, that heheard his fathers voice he slipped off his stool torun and open the door; but after stumbling twoor three times he fell his whole length on thefloor. And the noise he made in falling was as if a sackof wooden ladles had been thrown from a fifthstory. 44 Open the door! shouted Geppetto from thestreet. 44 Dear papa, I cannot, answered the puppet,crying and rolling about on the ground. 44 Why cannot you ? 44 Because my feet have been eaten. 44And who has eaten your feet? 44 The cat, said Pinocchio, seeing the cat, who 31 32 THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO was amusing herself by making some shavings dancewith her forepaws. Open the door, I tell you ! repeated Geppetto. If you dont, when I get into the house you shallhave the cat f
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