Part 1 (2/2)
”Yes!”
”No!”
”Yes!”
And growing angrier each an to scratch and bite and slap each other
When the fight was over, Mastro Antonio had Geppetto's yelloig in his hands and Geppetto found the carpenter's curly wig in his !” shouted Mastro Antonio in a surly voice
”You return mine and we'll be friends”
The two little oldback on his own head, shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives
”Well then, Mastro Geppetto,” said the carpenter, to show he bore him no ill will, ”what is it you want?”
”I want a piece of wood to ive it to lad indeed, went iet the piece of hich had frightened hiive it to his friend, with a violent jerk it slipped out of his hands and hit against poor Geppetto's thin legs
”Ah! Is this the gentle way, Mastro Antonio, in which you ifts? You have made me almost lame!”
”I swear to you I did not do it!”
”It was I, of course!”
”It's the fault of this piece of wood”
”You're right; but res”
”I did not throw it!”
”Liar!”
”Geppetto, do not insult me or I shall call you Polendina”
”Idiot”
”Polendina!”
”Donkey!”
”Polendina!”
”Uglyhimself called Polendina for the third tie and threw hiave each other a sound thrashi+ng
After this fight, Mastro Antonio had two more scratches on his nose, and Geppetto had two buttonssettled their accounts, they shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives
Then Geppetto took the fine piece of wood, thanked Mastro Antonio, and liets home, Geppetto fashi+ons the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio The first pranks of the Marionette
Little as Geppetto's house was, it was neat and coround floor, with a tinyunder the stairway The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tus was painted on the wall opposite the door Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of so up clouds of what looked like real steam
As soon as he reached hoan to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette
”What shall I call him?” he said to himself ”I think I'll call him PINOCCHIO This name will make his fortune I knehole family of Pinocchi once--Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children--and they were all lucky The richest of the the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyesthis, felt insulted and said in a grieved tone: ”Ugly wooden eyes, why do you stare so?”
There was no answer
After the eyes, Geppetto an to stretch as soon as finished It stretched and stretched and stretched till it beca, it see it, but the rew that impertinent nose In despair he let it alone
Next he an to laugh and poke fun at hiht as well have spoken to the wall
”Stop laughing, I say!” he roared in a voice of thunder
The ue
Not wishi+ng to start an argu and went on with his work After the mouth, he made the chin, then the neck, the shoulders, the stomach, the arms, and the hands
As he was about to put the last touches on the finger tips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off He glanced up and what did he see? His yelloas in the Marionette's hand ”Pinocchio, giveit back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half sed up in it