Stranica 57 [57]
PINOCCHIO 47
Will you give me twopence for this new
S pelling-book? ”
“I am a boy and I dont buy from boys,”
replied his little interlocutor, who had much
more sense than he had.
“I will buy the Spelling-book for two¬
pence,” called out a hawker of old clothes, who
had been listening to the conversation.
And the book was sold there and then. And
to think that poor Geppetto had remained at
home trembling with cold in his shirt sleeves,
that he might buy his son a Spelling-book!