Oldal 50 [50]
VIII
GEPPETTO MAKES PINOCCHIO NEW FEET, AND
SELLS HISOWN COAT TO BUY HIM A SPELLING¬
BOOK
O sooner had the puppet appeased his
hunger than he began to cry and to
grumble because he wanted a pair of
new feet.
But Geppetto, to punish him for his naugh¬
tiness, allowed him to cry and to despair for
half the day. He then said to him:
" Why should I make you new feet? To
enable you to escape again from home? ”
" I promise you,” said the puppet, sobbing,
“that for the future I will be good.”
‘ All boys,” replied Geppetto, “ when they
are bent upon obtaining something, say the
same thing.”
“I promise you that I will go to school,
and that I will study and earn a good char¬
acter.”
" All boys, when they are bent on obtain¬
ing something, repeat the same story.”
“But I am not like other boys! I am
better than all of them and I always speak the
truth. I promise you, papa, that I will learn
a trade, and that I will be the consolation and
the staff of your old age.”
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