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PINOCCHIO
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“Because some one has eaten my feet.”
“And who has eaten them?”
“The cat,” said Pinocchio, seeing the cat with its two front paws playing with a bit of wood.
“Open the door, I say,” repeated Geppetto; “if not, when I come into the house I shall whip you.”
“I cannot stand up, believe me. Oh! poor, poor me! I shall be obliged to walk on my knees all my life.”
Geppetto, believing that all the weeping was simply a trick to deceive him, thought he would make an end of it. So he climbed up the side of the house and entered through the window.
