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PINOCCHIO
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I repeat it,” he said again in a loud tone. Then the mouth stopped laughing and stuck out its tongue.
Geppetto, in order not to notice the impudence, feigned not to see it and continued to work. After the mouth he made the chin, then the neck, then the shoulders, then the body, then the arms and hands.
Hardly had he finished the hands when Geppetto felt his wig pulled off. He quickly turned, and
what do you think he saw? He saw his yellow wig in the hands of the marionette. “Pinocchio! give me back my wig immediately,” he said. But Pinocchio, instead of giving back the wig, put it on his own head, making himself look half smothered.
At this insolence Geppetto looked sad and melancholy, a thing he had never done before in his
