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VIII GEPPETTO MAKES PINOCCHIO NEW FEET, AND SELLS HISOWN COAT TO BUY HIM A SPELLINGBOOK 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 naughtiness, 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 character.” " All boys, when they are bent on obtaining 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.” 40
