Pinocchio continued to sleep and to snore as if his feet belonged to
some one else. At last about daybreak he awoke because some one was
knocking at the door.

"Who is there?" he asked, yawning and rubbing his eyes.

"It is I!" answered a voice.

And Pinocchio recognized Geppetto's voice.




CHAPTER VII

GEPPETTO GIVES HIS OWN BREAKFAST TO PINOCCHIO


Poor Pinocchio, whose eyes were still half shut from sleep, had not as
yet discovered that his feet were burnt off. The moment, therefore, that
he heard his father's voice he slipped off his stool to run and open the
door; but, after stumbling two or three times, he fell his whole length
on the floor.

And the noise he made in falling was as if a sack of wooden ladles had
been thrown from a fifth story.

"Open the door!" shouted Geppetto from the street.