Identifier: pinocchiotaleofp00coll (find matches)
Title: Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890 Folkard, Charles, ill
Subjects: Puppets Fantasy
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent New York : E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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his forehead, and then his eyes. The eyes being finished, imagine his astonishmentwhen he peceived that they moved and looked fixedlyat him. Geppetto seeing himself stared at by those twowooden eyes took it almost in bad part, and said inan angry voice : u Wicked wooden eyes, why do you look at me ? No one answered. He then proceeded to carve the nose; but nosooner had he made it than it began to grow. Andit grew, and grew, and grew, until in a few minutesit had become an immense nose that seemed as if itwould never end. Poor Geppetto tired himself out with cutting it off;but the more he cut and shortened it, the longer didthat impertinent nose become ! The mouth was not even completed when it beganto laugh and deride him. Stop laughing ! said Geppetto, provoked ; buthe might as well have spoken to the wall. Stop laughing, I say ! he roared in a threateningtone. The mouth then ceased laughing, but put out itstongue as far as it would go. Geppetto, not to spoil his handiwork, pretended
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When Geppetto had finished the feet he received a kick on the point of his nose. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 13 not to see, and continued his labours. After themouth he fashioned the chin, then the throat, thenthe shoulders, the stomach, the arms and the hands. The hands were scarcely finished when Geppettofelt his wig snatched from his head. He turnedround, and what did he see? He saw his yellowwig in the puppets hand. Pinocchio! . . . Give me back my wiginstantly! 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

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