Pinocchio jumps down and they try to pry his mouth open, but he bites the Cat's hand off and escapes deeper into the forest.Īs Pinocchio runs through the forest, he sees a white house ahead. The marionette hides the coins in his mouth and runs up a tree, but the bandits kindle a fire underneath it. Pinocchio ignores him again, however, and sets off for Catchfools.Īs he passes through a forest, the Fox and Cat, disguised as bandits, jump out and try to rob Pinocchio. On the way, they stop at the Inn of the Red Crayfish, where the Fox and Cat gorge themselves on food at Pinocchio's expense.ĭuring the night, the innkeeper wakes Pinocchio, saying that the Fox and Cat have left on an emergency, but will meet Pinocchio in Catchfools.Īs Pinocchio sets off for Catchfools, the ghost of the talking Cricket appears, telling him to go home and give the coins to his father. Believing them, Pinocchio heads off on a journey to Catchfools with the Cat and Fox.

They tell him that if he plants his coins in the Field of Miracles, outside the city of Catchfools, then they will grow into a tree with a thousand gold coins. When he learns about Pinocchio's poor father, he gives the marionette five gold pieces for Geppetto.Īs Pinocchio heads home to give the coins to his father, he meets a fox and a cat on the side of the road. After Pinocchio pleads for Harlequin's salvation, Mangiafuoco gives up. After Pinocchio pleads to be saved, Mangiafuoco gives in and decides to burn Harlequin. Upset, he breaks up the excitement and decides to use Pinocchio as firewood to cook his lamb dinner. Unable to withstand the urge, he sells his school book for tickets to the show.ĭuring the performance, the puppets Harlequin, Punch, and Signora Rosaura (who are on stage) see Pinocchio and stop acting, crying out, 'It is our brother Pinocchio!' While the puppets rejoice, however, the audience grows angry, and the theater director, Mangiafuoco, comes out to see what is going on. Curious, he follows the sounds until he finds himself in a crowd of people, all congregated to see the Great Marionette Theater. Pinocchio heads off to school, but on the way he hears music and crowds. Since Geppetto has no money to buy school books, he sells his only coat. In gratitude, Pinocchio promises to go to school. Since Pinocchio says he is starving, Geppetto gives him the pears and teaches Pinocchio to waste nothing. His father, who has been released from jail and has with him three pears for a meal, makes his son a new pair of feet. The next morning he wakes to find that his feet have burnt off. Pinocchio returns home freezing and tries to warm himself by placing his feet upon the stove. He then proceeds to pour an enormous basin of water on him. The neighbor is annoyed by Pinocchio's pleas because it is late at night and he tells him to 'come underneath and hold out your cap'. Unable to find food in the house, Pinocchio ventures to a neighbor's house to beg for food. In retaliation, Pinocchio throws a hammer at the Cricket, more accurately than he intended to, and accidentally kills it.

Once he arrives at home, the talking Cricket who has lived in the house for over a century tells him that boys who do not obey their parents grow up to be donkeys. Left alone, Pinocchio heads back to Geppetto's house to get something to eat. He is caught by a Carabiniere, but when people say that Geppetto dislikes children, the carabineer assumes that Pinocchio has been treated poorly and imprisons Geppetto. Once the puppet has been finished and Geppetto teaches him to walk, Pinocchio runs out the door and away into the town. Before he is even built, Pinocchio already has a mischievous attitude no sooner than Geppetto is finished carving Pinocchio's feet does the puppet proceed to kick him. He carves the block into a boy and names him Pinocchio.Īs soon as Pinocchio's nose has been carved, it begins to grow with his congenital impudence.

Geppetto is extremely poor and plans to make a living as a puppeteer in hopes of earning some food to eat. When he begins, however, the log shouts out, 'Don't strike me too hard!'įrightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto, known for disliking children who call him 'Polendina', drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette seeing a perfect opportunity, Antonio gives the block to Geppetto.Īs Geppetto carves the puppet, the nose begins to grow. A carpenter Master Antonio, but whom everyone calls Master Cherry for his bright shiny red nose, has found a block of pinewood which he plans to carve into a leg for his table.

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