The poor Marionette, who was still half asleep, had not yet found out that his two feet were burned and gone. As soon as he heard his Father's voice, he jumped up from his seat to open the door, but, as he did so, he staggered and fell headlong to the floor.
       In falling, he made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth story of a house.
       "Open the door for me!" Geppetto shouted from the street.
       "Father, dear Father, I can't," answered the Marionette in despair, crying and rolling on the floor.
       "Why can't you?"
       "Because someone has eaten my feet."
       "And who has eaten them?"
       "The cat," answered Pinocchio, seeing that little animal busily playing with some shavings in the corner of the room.
       "Open! I say," repeated Geppetto, "or I'll give you a sound whipping when I get in."
       "Father, believe me, I can't stand up. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall have to walk on my knees all my life."
       Geppetto, thinking that all these tears and cries were only other pranks of the Marionette, climbed up the side of the house and went in through the window.
       At first he was very angry, but on seeing Pinocchio stretched out on the floor and really without feet, he felt very sad and sorrowful. Picking him up from the floor, he fondled and caressed him, talking to him while the tears ran down his cheeks:
       "My little Pinocchio, my dear little Pinocchio! How did you burn your feet?"
       "I don't know, Father, but believe me, the night has been a terrible one and I shall remember it as long as I live. The thunder was so noisy and the lightning so bright-- and I was hungry. And then the Talking Cricket said to me, `You deserve it; you were bad;' and I said to him, `Careful, Cricket;' and he said to me, `You are a Marionette and you have a wooden head;' and I threw the hammer at him and killed him. It was his own fault, for I didn't want to kill him. And I put the pan on the coals, but the Chick flew away and said, `I'll see you again! Remember me to the family.' And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't! Oh!--Oh!--Oh!" And poor Pinocchio began to scream and cry so loudly that he could be heard for miles around.
       Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying:
       "These three pears were for my breakfast, but I give them to you gladly. Eat them and stop weeping."
       "If you want me to eat them, please peel them for me."
       "Peel them?" asked Geppetto, very much surprised. "I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food. Bad, very bad! In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"
       "You may be right," answered Pinocchio, "but I will not eat the pears if they are not peeled. I don't like them."
       And good old Geppetto took out a knife, peeled the three pears, and put the skins in a row on the table.
       Pinocchio ate one pear in a twinkling and started to throw the core away, but Geppetto held his arm.
       "Oh, no, don't throw it away! Everything in this world may be of some use!"
       "But the core I will not eat!" cried Pinocchio in an angry tone.
       "Who knows?" repeated Geppetto calmly.
       And later the three cores were placed on the table next to the skins.
       Pinocchio had eaten the three pears, or rather devoured them. Then he yawned deeply, and wailed:
       "I'm still hungry."
       "But I have no more to give you."
       "Really, nothing--nothing?"
       "I have only these three cores and these skins."
       "Very well, then," said Pinocchio, "if there is nothing else I'll eat them."
       At first he made a wry face, but, one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.
       "Ah! Now I feel fine!" he said after eating the last one.
       "You see," observed Geppetto, "that I was right when I told you that one must not be too fussy and too dainty about food. My dear, we never know what life may have in store for us!"

Chapter 1: How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child
Chapter 2: Mastro Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who takes it to make himself a Marionette that will dance, fence, and turn somersaults
Chapter 3: As soon as he gets home, Geppetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio. The first pranks of the Marionette
Chapter 4: The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do
Chapter 5: Pinocchio is hungry and looks for an egg to cook himself an omelet; but, to his surprise, the omelet flies out of the window
Chapter 6: Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on a foot warmer, and awakens the next day with his feet all burned off
Chapter 7: Geppetto returns home and gives his own breakfast to the Marionette
Chapter 8: Geppetto makes Pinocchio a new pair of feet, and sells his coat to buy him an A-B-C book
Chapter 9: Pinocchio sells his A-B-C book to pay his way into the Marionette Theater
Chapter 10: The Marionettes recognize their brother Pinocchio, and greet him with loud cheers; but the Director, Fire Eater, happens along and poor Pinocchio almost loses his life
Chapter 11: Fire Eater sneezes and forgives Pinocchio, who saves his friend, Harlequin, from death
Chapter 12: Fire Eater gives Pinocchio five gold pieces for his father, Geppetto; but the Marionette meets a Fox and a Cat and follows them
Chapter 13: The Inn of the Red Lobster
Chapter 14: Pinocchio, not having listened to the good advice of the Talking Cricket, falls into the hands of the Assassins
Chapter 15: The Assassins chase Pinocchio, catch him, and hang him to the branch of a giant oak tree
Chapter 16: The Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair sends for the poor Marionette, puts him to bed, and calls three Doctors to tell her if Pinocchio is dead or alive
Chapter 17
Chapter 18: Pinocchio finds the Fox and the Cat again, and goes with them to sow the gold pieces in the Field of Wonders
Chapter 19: Pinocchio is robbed of his gold pieces and, in punishment, is sentenced to four months in prison
Chapter 20: Freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to the Fairy; but on the way he meets a Serpent and later is caught in a trap
Chapter 21: Pinocchio is caught by a Farmer, who uses him as a watchdog for his chicken coop
Chapter 22: Pinocchio discovers the thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty
Chapter 23
Chapter 24: Pinocchio reaches the Island of the Busy Bees and finds the Fairy once more
Chapter 25: Pinocchio promises the Fairy to be good and to study, as he is growing tired of being a Marionette, and wishes to become a real boy
Chapter 26: Pinocchio goes to the seashore with his friends to see the Terrible Shark
Chapter 27: The great battle between Pinocchio and his playmates. One is wounded. Pinocchio is arrested
Chapter 28: Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in a pan like a fish
Chapter 29
Chapter 30: Pinocchio, instead of becoming a boy, runs away to the Land of Toys with his friend, Lamp-Wick
Chapter 31: After five months of play, Pinocchio wakes up one fine morning and finds a great surprise awaiting him
Chapter 32: Pinocchio's ears become like those of a Donkey. In a little while he changes into a real Donkey and begins to bray
Chapter 33
Chapter 34: Pinocchio is thrown into the sea, eaten by fishes, and becomes a Marionette once more. As he swims to land, he is swallowed by the Terrible Shark
Chapter 35: In the Shark's body Pinocchio finds whom? Read this chapter, my children, and you will know
Chapter 36: Pinocchio finally ceases to be a Marionette and becomes a boy