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07 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Adventure Books Library

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  Chapter seven, Geppetto returns home and gives his own breakfast to the marionette.
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  The poor marionette, who was still half asleep, had not yet found out
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  that his two feet were burned and gone. As soon as he heard his
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  father's voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, But
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  as he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor. In
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  falling, he's made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the
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  fifth story of a house. Open the door for me, Geppetto shouted from
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  the street. Father, dear father, I can't, answered the marionette,
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  in despair, crying and rolling on the floor. Why can't you? Because
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  someone has eating my feet? And who is eating them? The cat,
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  answered Pinocchio, seeing that little animal busily playing with some shavings in the corner
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  of the room, Open, I say, repeated Geppetto, or I'll give
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  you a sound whipping when I get in. Father, believe me, I
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  can't stand up. Oh dear, oh dear, I shall have to walk
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  on my knees all my life. Geppetto, thinking that all these tears and
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  cries were only other pranks of the Marionette climbed up the side of the house
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  and went in through the window. At first he was very angry, but
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  on seeing Pinocchio stretched out on the floor and really without feet, he felt
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  very sad and sorrowful. Picking him up from the floor, he fondled and
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  caressed him, talking to him while the tears ran down his cheeks. My
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  little Pinocchio, My dear little Pinocchio, how did you burn your feet?
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  I don't know, father, but believe me, the night has been a
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  terrible one, and I still remembered as long as I live. The thunder
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  was so noisy and the lightning so bright, and I was hungry. And
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  then the talking cricket said to me, you deserve it. You were bad.
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  And I said to him, careful cricket, and he said to me,
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  you are Marionette, and you have a wooden head. And I threw
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  the hammer at him, and I killed him. It was his own fault,
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  but I didn't want to kill him. And I put the pan on
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  the coals. But the chick flew away and said, I'll see you again,
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  remember me to the family. And my hunger grew that I went out,
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  and the old man with a nightcap looked out the window and threw water
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  on me. And I came home, and I put my feet in the
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  stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep.
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  And now my feet are gone, but my hunger isn't. Oh oh oh,
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  And poor Pinocchio began to scream and cry so loudly that he could be
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  heard for miles around. Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled
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  talk except that the marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and,
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  pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying,
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  these three pears were for my breakfast. But I give them to you.
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  Gladly eat them and stop weeping. If you want me to eat them,
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  please peel them for me. Peel them, asked Geppetto, very much surprised.
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  I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were
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  so dainty and fussy about your food. Bad, very bad. In this
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  world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything,
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  for we never know what life may hold in store for us. You may
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  be right, answered Pinocchio, but I will not eat the pears if they
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  are not peeled. I don't like them, and good old Geppetto took out
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  a knife, heeled the three pears and put the skins on a row in
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  the table. Pinocchio wait one pair in a twinkling, and started to throw
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  the core away, but Geppetto held his arm. Oh no, don't throw
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  it away. Everything in this world may be of some use, but the
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  core I will not eat, cried Pinocchio in an angry tone. Who knows,
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  repeated Geppetto calmly, and later the three cores were placed on the table.
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  Next time the skins. Pinocchio had eaten the three pairs, or rather
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  devoured them. Then he yawned deeply and wailed. I'm still hungry, but
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  I have no more to give you, really nothing nothing. I have only
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  these three cores and these skins. Very well, then, said Pinocchio,
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  if there is nothing else, I'll eat them. At first he made a
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  wry face, but one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.
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  Ah now I feel fine, he said, after eating the last one.
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  You see, observed Geppetto that I was right when I told you that one
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  must not be too fussy and too dainty about food. My dear, we
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  never know what life may have in store for us. End of Chapter seven,