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03 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books Collection

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  Chapter three. As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the marionette and
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  calls it Pinocchio. The first pranks of the marionette. Little as Geppetto's house
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  was, it was neat and comfortable. It was a small room on the
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  ground floor, with a tiny window under the stairway. The furniture could not
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  have been much simpler. A very old chair, a rickety old bed,
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  and a tumble down table. A fireplace full of burning logs was painted on
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  the wall opposite the door. Over the fire there was painted a pot full
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  of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like
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  real steam. As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and
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  began to cut and shape the wood into a marionette. What shall I call
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  him, he said to himself. I think I'll call him Pinocchio. This
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  name will make his fortune. I knew the whole family of Pinocchi once Pinocchio
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  the father, Pinocchio the mother, and Pinocchi the children, and they were
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  all lucky. The richest of them begged for his living. After choosing the
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  name for his marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair,
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  the forehead, the eyes. Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes
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  moved and then stared fixedly at him. Geppetto, seeing this, felt insulted
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  and said, in a grieved tone, ugly wooden eyes, why do you
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  stare so? There was no answer. After the eyes, Geppetto made the
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  nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched
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  and stretched till it became so long it seemed endless. Poor Geppetto kept cutting
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  it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that
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  impertinent nose. In despase, he left it alone. Next he made the
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  mouth. No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun
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  at him. Stop laughing, said Geppetto angrily. But he might as well
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  have spoken to the wall. Stop laughing, I say, he roared in
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  a voice of thunder. The mouth stopped laughing, but it stuck out a
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  long tongue. Not wishing to start an argument, Geppetto made believe he saw
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  nothing and went on with his work. After the mouth, he made the
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  chin, then the neck, the shoulders, the stomach, the arms,
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  and the hands. As he was about to put a last touches on the
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  fingertips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off. He glanced up, and
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  what did he see? His yellow wig was in the marionette's hand. Pinocchio,
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  give me my wig, But instead of giving it back, Pinocchio put
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  it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it. At
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  that unexpected trick, Geppetto became very sad and downcast, more so than he
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  had ever been before. Pinocchio, You wicked boy, he cried out.
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  You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your
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  poor old father. Very bad, my son, very bad. And he
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  wiped away a tear. The legs and feet still had to be made.
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  As soon as they were done, Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip
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  of his nose. I deserve it, he said to himself. I should
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  have thought of this before I made him. Now it's too late. He
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  took hold of the marionette under the arms and put him on the floor to
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  teach him to walk. Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move
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  them, and Geppetto held his hand and showed him how to put one foot
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  after the other. When his legs were timbered up, Pinocchio started walking by
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  himself and ran all around the room. He came to the open door,
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  and with one leap, he was out into the street. Away he flew.
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  Poor Geppetto ran after him, but was unable to catch him, for
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  Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds his two wooden feet as they beat on the
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  stones of the street, making as much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes
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  catch him, catch him. Geppetto kept shouting, but the people in the
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  street, seeing a wooden marionette running like the wind, stood still, to
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  stare and to laugh, until they cried at last by sheer luck. A
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  carabineer begin note a military policeman and note happened along who, hearing all that
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  noise, thought that it might be a runaway colt, and stood bravely in
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  the middle of the street with legs wide apart, firmly resolved to stop it
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  and prevent any trouble. Pinocchio saw the carabineer from afar and tried his best
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  to escape between the legs of the big fellow, but without success. The
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  carabineer grabbed him by the nose, it was an extremely long one and seemed
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  made on purpose for that very thing, and returned him to Maestro Geppetto.
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  The little old man wanted to pull Pinocchio's ears. Think how he felt when,
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  upon searching for them, he discovered that he had forgotten to make them.
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  All he could do was to seize Pinocchio by the back of the neck
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  and take him home. As he was doing so, he shook him two
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  or three times and said to him angrily, we're going home now. When
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  we get home, then we'll settle this matter. Pinocchio, on hearing this,
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  threw himself on the ground and refused to take another step. One person
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  after another gathered around the two. Some said one thing, some another.
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  Poor Marionette called out, a man, I am not surprised he doesn't want
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  to go home. Geppetto, no doubt, will beat him unmercifully. He
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  is so mean and cruel. Geppetto looks like a good man, added another.
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  But with boys, he is a real tyrant. If we leave that
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  poor marionette in his hands, he may tear him to pieces. They said
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  so much that finally the Carabinir ended matters by setting Pinocchio at liberty and dragging
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  Geppetto to prison. The poor old fellow did not know how to defend himself,
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  but wept and wailed like a child, and said, between his sobs,
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  ungrateful boy, to think I tried so hard to make you a well
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  behaved marionette. I deserve it. However, I should have given the matter
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  more thought. What happened after this is an almost unbelievable story, but you
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  may read it, dear children, in the chapters that follow. End of chapter three