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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 19
