on he jumped down and began to dance around as if he were mad with joy.
"In order to pay you back for your kindness” he said, "I will go to school immediately."
"Good boy."
"But to go to school I need some clothes."
So Geppetto, who was so poor that he hadnot a cent in his pocket, made him a beautiful suit of clothes from some flowered paper, a pair of shoes from the bark of a tree, and a cap of stale breadcrumbs all moulded together. Pinocchio ran immediately to look at himself in a tub filled with water, and he was so delighted with his appearance that he strutted about proudly and said, "Really I look quite like a gentleman."
"Yes indeed” replied Geppetto, “because, bear in mind, it is not fine clothes so much as clean ones that make the gentleman."
"By the way," added the marionette, "Now to go to school there is only one other thing I lack."
"What is that?”
