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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Good day, Mastro Antonio," said Geppetto. "What are you doing on the floor?" "I am teaching the ants their A B C's." "Good luck to you!" "What brought you here, friend Geppetto?" "My legs. And it may flatter you to know, Mastro Antonio, that I have come to you to beg for a favor." "Here I am, at your service," answered the carpenter, raising himself on to his knees.
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.
Poor Pinocchio pretended to be peaceful and contented, but he was far from that. He was beginning to feel discouraged, his strength was leaving him, and his breathing was becoming more and more labored. He felt he could not go on much longer, and the shore was still far away. He swam a few more strokes. Then he turned to Geppetto and cried out weakly: "Help me, Father! Help, for I am dying!"
"We must escape through the mouth of the Dog-Fish, throw ourselves into the sea and swim away." "You talk well; but, dear Pinocchio, I don't know how to swim." "What does that matter? I am a good swimmer, and you can get on my shoulders and I will carry you safely to shore." "All illusions, my boy!" replied Geppetto, shaking his head, with a melancholy smile.
He was larger than a turkey. "Do you also know Geppetto?" he asked. "Do I know him! He is my poor papa! Has he perhaps spoken to you of me? Will you take me to him? Is he still alive? Answer me, for pity's sake: is he still alive?" "I left him three days ago on the seashore." "What was he doing?" "He was building a little boat for himself, to cross the ocean.
On hearing himself called Polendina, Mastro Geppetto turned the color of a red pepper and, facing the carpenter, said to him angrily: "Why do you insult me?" "Who is insulting you?" "You called me Polendina." "I did not." "I suppose you think I did! Yet I KNOW it was you." "No!" "Yes!" "No!" "Yes!"
Geppetto then said to the puppet: "Shut your eyes and go to sleep!" And Pinocchio shut his eyes and pretended to be asleep. And whilst he pretended to sleep, Geppetto, with a little glue which he had melted in an egg-shell, fastened his feet in their place, and it was so well done that not even a trace could be seen of where they were joined.
At this answer, the Pigeon flew swiftly down to the earth. He was much larger than a turkey. "Then you know Geppetto also?" "Do I know him? He's my father, my poor, dear father! Has he, perhaps, spoken to you of me? Will you take me to him? Is he still alive? Answer me, please! Is he still alive?" "I left him three days ago on the shore of a large sea." "What was he doing?"
"You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father. Very bad, my son, very bad!" And he wiped away a tear. The legs and feet still had to be made. As soon as they were done, Geppetto felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose. "I deserve it!" he said to himself. "I should have thought of this before I made him. Now it's too late!"
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.
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