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42 PINOCCHIO
" But to go to school I shall want some
clothes."
Geppetto, who was poor, and who had not
so much as a farthing in his pocket, then made
him a little dress of flowered paper, a pair of
shoes from the bark of a tree, and a cap of the
crumb of bread.
Pinocchio ran immediately to look at him¬
self in a crock of water, and he was so pleased
with this appearance that he said, strutting
about like a peacock:
“T look quite like a gentleman! ”
“Yes, indeed,” answered Geppetto, “ for
bear in mind that it 1s not fine clothes that make
the gentleman, but rather clean clothes.”
" By the bye," added the puppet, “to go
to school I am still in want—indeed I am with¬
out the best thing, and the most important.”
‘And what is 1t?”
" I have no Spelling-book.”
“You are right: but what shall we do to
get one?”
" It is quite easy. We have only to go to
the bookseller’s and buy it.”
“And the money? "
“IT have got none.”
" No more have I,” added the good man.
And Pinocchio, although he was a very
merry boy, became sad also; because poverty,