This page has been validated.
CHAPTER VII
Poor Pinocchio, who was not quite awake, did not notice that his feet had been burned off. He gave a start and jumped down from his chair so as to run and open the door. Instead, after staggering two or three times, he fell flat on the floor; and in falling he made the same noise that a sack of wood would make in falling from the fifth story of a house.
“Open the door,” cried Geppetto, from the street.
“I cannot, Father,” responded the marionette, weeping and turning over and over on the floor.
“Why?"
24
