EN IT CHAPTER X When Pinocchio entered the theater of the marionettes something happened that almost caused a revolution. The reader must know that the curtain was up and the comedy had begun. On the stage Harlequin and Pulcinello were quarreling, and, as usual in stage performances of marionettes, there were many blows given with […]
EN IT CHAPTER IX The snow having stopped, Pinocchio, with his nice new A B C card under his arm, went to school. As he walked along he imagined many things and built a thousand castles in the air, each new one more beautiful than the others. And, talking to himself, he said: “To-day at […]
EN IT CHAPTER VIII The marionette had scarcely appeased his hunger when he began to grumble and cry because he wished a new pair of feet. Geppetto, in order to punish him for his bad actions, let him cry for half a day. Then he said: “And why should I make you a new pair […]
EN IT CHAPTER VII Poor Pinocchio, who was not quite awake, did not notice that his feet had been burned off. He gave a start and jumped down from his chair so as to run and open the door. Instead, after staggering two or three times, he fell flat on the floor; and in falling […]
EN IT CHAPTER VI It was a horrible night. It thundered very heavily and it lightened as if the heavens would take fire, while an ugly wind whistled savagely and raised an immense cloud of dust. Pinocchio was afraid of thunder and lightning, but his hunger was greater than his fear. In a few hundred […]
EN IT CHAPTER V Meanwhile the night came on, and Pinocchio, remembering that he had eaten nothing, felt a gnawing in his stomach that strongly resembled an appetite. But the appetite of boys increases very quickly, and so after a few minutes the appetite became hunger, and the hunger finally became like that of a […]
EN IT CHAPTER IV I will tell you then, children, that while poor old Geppetto was led to prison without having done any wrong, that rogue Pinocchio, being free, took to his heels and ran toward the fields in order more easily to reach his house. In his haste he jumped high mounds of earth, […]
EN IT CHAPTER III Geppetto’s home consisted of one room on the ground floor. It received light from a window under a staircase. The furniture could not have been more simple,—a broken chair, a poor bed, and a nearly ruined table. On one of the partitions there was a fireplace with wood burning; but the […]
EN IT CHAPTER II At this moment there was a knock at the door. “Come in,” said the woodcutter, without having strength enough to arise. Then a lively old man called Geppetto entered the room. The boys in the neighborhood, when they wished to make him angry, called him Corn Meal, because his wig was […]
EN IT CHAPTER I Once upon a time there was— “A king?” my little readers will immediately say. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not fine wood, but a simple piece of wood from the wood yard,—the kind we put in the stoves and […]
