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20 PINOCCHIO
made his hair, then his forehead, and then his
eyes.
The eyes being finished, imagine his aston¬
ishment when he perceived that they moved and
looked fixedly at him.
Geppetto seeing himself stared at by those
two wooden eyes took it almost in bad part, and
said in an angry voice:
“Wicked wooden eyes, why do you look
at me?”
No one answered.
He then proceeded to carve the nose; but
no sooner had he made it than it began to grow.
And it grew, and grew, and grew, until in a
few minutes it had become an immense nose
that seemed as 1f it would never end.
Poor Geppetto tired himself out with cut¬
ting it off; but the more he cut and shortened
it, the longer did that impertinent nose become!
The mouth was not even completed when it
began to laugh and deride him.
“Stop laughing!” said Geppetto, pro¬
voked; but he might as well have spoken to
the wall.
“Stop laughing, I say!” he roared in a
threatening tone.
The mouth then ceased laughing, but put
out its tongue as far as it would go.
Geppetto, not to spoil his handiwork, pre¬