. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . tantly! But Pinocchio, instead of returning it, put it onhis own head, and was in consequence nearlysmothered. Geppetto at this insolent and derisive behaviourfelt sadder and more melancholy than he had everbeen in his life before ; and turning to Pinocchio hesaid to him: You young rascal! You are not yet completed,and you are already beginning to show want ofrespect to your father! That is bad, my boy, verybad! And he dried a tear. The legs and the feet remained to be done. When Geppetto had finished the feet he receiveda kick on the point of his nose. I d
. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . tantly! But Pinocchio, instead of returning it, put it onhis own head, and was in consequence nearlysmothered. Geppetto at this insolent and derisive behaviourfelt sadder and more melancholy than he had everbeen in his life before ; and turning to Pinocchio hesaid to him: You young rascal! You are not yet completed,and you are already beginning to show want ofrespect to your father! That is bad, my boy, verybad! And he dried a tear. The legs and the feet remained to be done. When Geppetto had finished the feet he receiveda kick on the point of his nose. I deserve it! he said to himself; I shouldhave thought of it sooner! Now it is too late! He then took the puppet under the arms andplaced him on the floor to teach him to walk. 14 THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO Pinocchios legs were stift and he could not move,but Geppetto led him by the hand and showed himhow to put one foot before the other. When his legs became flexible Pinocchio beganto walk by himself and to run about the room; until,. Geppetto rushed after him. having gone out of the house door, he jumped intothe street and escaped. Poor Geppetto rushed after him but was not ableto overtake him, for that rascal Pinocchio leapt infront of him like a hare, and knocking his woodenfeet together against the pavement made as muchclatter as twenty pairs of peasants clogs. Stop him ! stop him! shouted Geppetto; butthe people in the street, seeing a wooden puppetrunning like a racehorse, stood still in astonishment THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 15 to look at it, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed,until it beats description. At last, as good luck would have it, a carabineerarrived who, hearing the uproar, imagined that acolt had escaped from his master. Planting himselfcourageously with his legs apart in the middle ofthe road, he waited with the determined purpose ofstopping him, and thus preventing the chance ofworse disasters. When Pinocchio, still at some distance, sawthe carabineer b
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