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01 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one. How it happened that Mastro Cherry carpenter found
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  Speaker 1: a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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  Speaker 1: Centuries ago there lived a king. My little readers will
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  Speaker 1: say immediately, no, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a
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  Speaker 1: time there was a piece of wood. It was not
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  Speaker 1: an expensive piece of wood, far from it, just a
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  Speaker 1: common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs
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  Speaker 1: that are put on the fire in the winter to
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  Speaker 1: make cold rooms cozy and warm. I do not know
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  Speaker 1: how this really happened, yet the fact remains that one
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  Speaker 1: fine day this piece of wood found itself in the
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  Speaker 1: shop of an old carpenter. His name was Mastro Antonio,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody called him Mastro Cherry, for the tip of
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  Speaker 1: his nose was so round and red and shiny that
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a ripe cherry. As soon as he
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  Speaker 1: saw that piece of wood, Mastro Cherry was filled with joy.
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  Speaker 1: Rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself,
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  Speaker 1: this has come in the nick of time. I shall
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  Speaker 1: use it to make the leg of a table. He
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  Speaker 1: grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and
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  Speaker 1: shape the wood. But as he was about to give
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  Speaker 1: it the first blow. He stood still with arm uplifted,
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  Speaker 1: for he had heard a wee little voice say, in
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  Speaker 1: a beseeching tone, please be careful, do not hit me
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  Speaker 1: so hard. With a look of surprise shone on Mastro
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  Speaker 1: Cherry's face, his funny face became funnier still. He turned
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  Speaker 1: frightened eyes about the room to find out where that
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  Speaker 1: wee little voice had come from, And he saw no one.
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  Speaker 1: He looked under the bench, no one. He peeped inside
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  Speaker 1: the closet, no one. He sir among the shavings, no one.
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  Speaker 1: He opened the door to look up and down the street,
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  Speaker 1: and still no one. Oh, I see, he said, laughing
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  Speaker 1: and scratching his wig. It can easily be seen that
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  Speaker 1: I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words, well,
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  Speaker 1: well to work. Once more, he struck a most solemn
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  Speaker 1: blow upon the piece of wood. Oh oh, you hurt,
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  Speaker 1: cried the same far away little voice. Mastro Cherry groomed dumb,
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  Speaker 1: his eyes popped out of his head, his mouth wide open,
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  Speaker 1: and his tongue hung down on his chin. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as he regained the use of his senses, he said,
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  Speaker 1: trembling and stuttering from fright where did that voice come
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  Speaker 1: from when there is no one around? Might it be
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  Speaker 1: that this piece of wood has learned to weep and
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  Speaker 1: cry like a child? I can hardly believe it. Here
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  Speaker 1: it is a piece of common fire, good only to
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  Speaker 1: burn in the stove, the same as any other. Yet
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  Speaker 1: might someone be hidden in it? If so, the worse
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  Speaker 1: for him. I'll fix him with these words. He grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the log with both hands and started to knock it
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  Speaker 1: about unmercifully. He threw it to the floor, against the
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  Speaker 1: walls of the room, and even up to the ceiling.
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  Speaker 1: He listened for the tiny voice to moan and cry.
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  Speaker 1: He waited two minutes nothing, five minutes nothing, ten minutes nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see, he said, trying bravely to laugh and
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  Speaker 1: ruffling up his wig with his hand. It can easily
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  Speaker 1: be seen. I only imagined I heard the tiny voice. Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: to work once more. The poor fellow was scared half
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  Speaker 1: to death, so he tried to sing a gay song
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  Speaker 1: in order to gain courage. He set aside the hatchet
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  Speaker 1: and picked up the plane to make the wood smooth
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  Speaker 1: and even. But as he drew it to and fro,
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  Speaker 1: he heard the same tiny voice. This time it giggled
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  Speaker 1: as it spoke. Ha ha, stop it, stop it, ha ha.
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  Speaker 1: You tickle my stomach this time, poor mastro Cherry fell
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  Speaker 1: as if shot. When he opened his eyes, he found
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  Speaker 1: himself sitting on the floor. His face had changed fright,
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  Speaker 1: had turned even the tip of his nose from red
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  Speaker 1: to deepest purple. End of Chapter one.