. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . y pulled a doorbell ofone of the houses and rang it with all his might,saying to himself, Some one will come. Soon a cross old man with a nightcap on hishead looked out of a window and cried, Whatdo you want at this hour ? PINOCCHIO 23 Will you please give me a little bread ? Go away, replied the old man, believing thathe had to deal with some of the bad boys who goaround at night disturbing people by ringing theirbells. Poor Pinocchio returned home, weak from hun-ger and tired out ; and because he had not enoughstrength to stand upright, he dropp
. Pinocchio : the adventures of a marionette . y pulled a doorbell ofone of the houses and rang it with all his might,saying to himself, Some one will come. Soon a cross old man with a nightcap on hishead looked out of a window and cried, Whatdo you want at this hour ? PINOCCHIO 23 Will you please give me a little bread ? Go away, replied the old man, believing thathe had to deal with some of the bad boys who goaround at night disturbing people by ringing theirbells. Poor Pinocchio returned home, weak from hun-ger and tired out ; and because he had not enoughstrength to stand upright, he dropped into a his feet on the stove that was filled withburning shavings, he fell asleep. But while heslept, his feet, which were of wood, took fire andslowly became cinders. Pinocchio, however, snoredaway just as if his feet belonged to some one else. He was awakened the next morning by someone knocking at the door. Who is there ? he asked, yawning and rubbinghis eyes. It is I, replied a voice. The voice was the voice of Geppetto /. •• CHAPTER VII Poor Pinocchio, 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 a
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