Not wishing to start an argument, Geppetto made believe he saw nothing and went on with his work. The mouth stopped laughing, but it stuck out a long tongue. “Stop laughing, I say!” he roared in a voice of thunder. “Stop laughing!” said Geppetto angrily but he might as well have spoken to the wall. No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him. Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose. It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long, it seemed endless. Geppetto, seeing this, felt insulted and said in a grieved tone:Īfter the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and then stared fixedly at him. The richest of them begged for his living.”Īfter choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes. I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once-Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children-and they were all lucky. “What shall I call him?” he said to himself.
ORIGINAL PINOCCHIO STORY FULL
Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.Īs soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette. A fireplace full of burning logs was painted on the wall opposite the door. The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table. It was a small room on the ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway.
Little as Geppetto’s house was, it was neat and comfortable.
Chapter 3 Geppetto Names His Puppet PinocchioĪs soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio.