The eyes being finished, imagine his astonishment when he perceived
that they moved and looked fixedly at him.
Geppetto seeing himself stared at by those two wooden eyes, took it
almost in bad part, and said in an angry voice:
"Wicked wooden eyes, why do you look at me?"
No one answered.
Then he proceeded to carve the nose; but no sooner had he made it
than it began to grow. And it grew, and grew, and grew until in a few
minutes it had become an immense nose that seemed as if it would never
end.
Poor Geppetto tired himself out with cutting it off. But the more he
cut and shortened it, the longer did that impertinent nose become!
The mouth was not even completed when it began to laugh and deride
him.
"Stop laughing!" said Geppetto provoked; but he might as well have
spoken to the wall.
"Stop laughing, I say!" he roared in a threatening tone.
The mouth then ceased laughing, but put out its tongue as far as it
would go.
Geppetto, not to spoil his handiwork, pretended not to see, and
continued his labors. After the mouth he fashioned the chin, then the
throat, and then the shoulders, the stomach, the arms and the hands.
The hands were scarcely finished when Geppetto felt his wig snatched
from his head.
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