Stranica 29 [29]
III
GEPPETTO HAVING RETURNED HOME BEGINS AT
ONCE TO MAKE A PUPPET, TO WHICH HE
GIVES THE NAME OF PINOCCHIO. THE FIRST
TRICKS PLAYED BY THE PUPPET
EPPETTO lived in a small ground¬
(5 floor room that was only lighted from
the staircase. The furniture could not
have been simpler,—a bad chair, a poor bed,
and a broken-down table. At the end of the
room there was a fireplace with a lighted fire;
but the fire was painted, and by the fire was a
painted saucepan that was boiling cheerfully,
and sending out a cloud of smoke that looked
exactly like real smoke.
As soon as he reached home Geppetto took
his tools and set to work to cut out and model
his puppet.
“What name shall I give him?” he said to
himself; " I think I will call him Pinocchio. It
is a name that will bring him luck. I once
knew a whole family so called. There was
Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and
Pinocchi the children, and all of them did well.
The richest of them was a beggar.”
Having found a name for his puppet, he
began to work in good earnest, and he first
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