. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . etto 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
. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . etto 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 from me !. Oh ! Poor me ! I shall have to walk on my knees forthe rest of my life ! u I cannot stand up, believe me. Oh, poor me!poor me! I shall have to walk on my knees for therest of my life! . . Geppetto, believing that all this lamentation wasonly another of the puppets tricks, thought of a THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 33 means of putting an end to it, and climbing up thewall he got in at the window. He was very angry, and at first he did nothing butscold; but when he saw his Pinocchio lying on theground and really without feet he was quite over-come. He took him in his arms and began to kissand caress him and to say a thousand endearingthings to him, and as the big tears ran down hischeeks, he said, sobbing: uMy little Pinocchio! how did you manage toburn your feet ? I dont know, papa, but believe me it has beenan infernal night that I shall remember as long as Ilive. It thundered and lightened, and I was veryhungry, and then the Talking-cricket said to
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