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42 PINOCCHIO " But to go to school I shall want some clothes." Geppetto, who was poor, and who had not so much as a farthing in his pocket, then made him a little dress of flowered paper, a pair of shoes from the bark of a tree, and a cap of the crumb of bread. Pinocchio ran immediately to look at himself in a crock of water, and he was so pleased with this appearance that he said, strutting about like a peacock: “T look quite like a gentleman! ” “Yes, indeed,” answered Geppetto, “ for bear in mind that it 1s not fine clothes that make the gentleman, but rather clean clothes.” " By the bye," added the puppet, “to go to school I am still in want—indeed I am without the best thing, and the most important.” ‘And what is 1t?” " I have no Spelling-book.” “You are right: but what shall we do to get one?” " It is quite easy. We have only to go to the bookseller’s and buy it.” “And the money? " “IT have got none.” " No more have I,” added the good man. And Pinocchio, although he was a very merry boy, became sad also; because poverty,
