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GEPPETTO RETURNS

Poor Pinocchio who was still half asleep, had not yet noticed that his feet had been burned off. But at the sound of Geppetto's voice he jumped off his chair to run and open the door. Instead, after staggering a little he fell flat on the floor, and in falling he made as much noise as a sack of wood would make in falling from the fifth story of a house.

"Open the door,” shouted Geppetto from the street.

"Oh father, I cannot," replied the marionette crying and rolling about on the floor.

"Why?"

"Because someone has eaten my feet.”

"And who has eaten them?"

"The cat," said Pinocchio, seeing a cat playing with some shavings on the floor.