GEPPETTO SELLS HIS COAT AND BUYS A SCHOOL BOOK FOR PINOCCHIO

Next morning Geppetto made new feet for Pinocchio. The puppet was very happy; he began to
jump and dance round the room.

“I want to show you that I’m a good boy,” he
said to his father. “Tomorrow I’ll go to school!”

“Good boy!” said Geppetto.

“But I must have some clothes.”

Geppetto had no money. So he made Pinocchio
nice clothes out of paper.

“I look like a gentleman now,” said Pinocchio.

“Yes, you do,” answered Geppetto. “But you
must know this: it is not good clothes but clean
clothes that make the gentleman.”

“Papa,” said the puppet, “I can’t go to school,
I have no school-book.”

“And I have no money,” answered Geppetto.
“I can’t buy you a school-book. But wait a little,
I’ll be back in a minute.”

Geppetto put on his old coat and ran out of
the house. Soon he came back without the coat.
But in his hand there was a school-book for Pinocchio.

“Where is your coat, Papa?” asked the puppet.
“It’s a very cold day.”

“I sold it, because it was too warm for me,”
answered Geppetto. Pinocchio saw that his father
was very kind. So he jumped up and kissed the
old man again and again.