. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . okick poor Geppetto. It is my fault, he said tohimself ; I ought to have thought of this at first !Now it is too late ! Then he took the mario-nette in his arms and placed him on the ground tomake him walk. Pinocchio behaved at first as ifhis legs were asleep and he could not move led him around the room for some time,showing him how to put one foot in front of theother. When his legs were stretched Pinocchiobegan to walk and then to run around the he saw the door open he jumped into thestreet and ran away. Poor Geppetto ra
. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . okick poor Geppetto. It is my fault, he said tohimself ; I ought to have thought of this at first !Now it is too late ! Then he took the mario-nette in his arms and placed him on the ground tomake him walk. Pinocchio behaved at first as ifhis legs were asleep and he could not move led him around the room for some time,showing him how to put one foot in front of theother. When his legs were stretched Pinocchiobegan to walk and then to run around the he saw the door open he jumped into thestreet and ran away. Poor Geppetto ran as fast as he could, but hewas not able to catch him ; Pinocchio jumped likea rabbit. He made a noise with his woodenfeet on the hard road like twenty pair of littlewooden shoes. *. Stop him ! stop him ! cried Geppetto ; butthe people in the street, seeing the wooden mario-nette running as fast as a rabbit, stopped to look atit, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed, so thatit is really hard to describe how they enjoyed it all. PINOCCHIO 13. Finally, through good fortune, a soldier appeared,who, hearing all the noise, thought that some colthad escaped from its master. He planted himselfin the middle of the road and with a fixed lookdetermined to catch the runaway. Pinocchio, whenhe saw the soldier in the road, tried to pass betweenhis legs, but he could not do it. The soldier,scarcely moving his body, seized the marionetteby the nose (which was a very ridiculous one, justthe size to be seized by a soldier) and consignedhim to the hands of Geppetto, who tried to correcthim by pulling his ears. But just imagine — whenhe searched for the ears he could not find them !Do you know why ? Because, in the haste ofmaking Pinocchio, he did not finish carving them. 14 PINOCCHIO Taking him by the neck, Geppetto led him back,saying as he did so, When we get home I mustpunish you. Pinocchio, at this threat, threw himself on theground and refused to walk farther. Meanwhilethe curious peopl
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