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CHAPTER ONE
MASTER ANTONIO » FINDS A PIECE OF WOOD
All fairy-tales begin with the words: "Once upon a time there was . . ." ^ This story also begins with the words: "Once upon a time there was a . . ."
"A king!" my little readers will say.
No, children, not a king! Once upon a time there was a piece of wood!
I cannot say where the old man of the name of ^ Master Antonio found this piece of wood, but it was lying in his room when our story began.
Master Antonio wanted to make a new leg for his table. He took his axe and began to hit the piece of wood with the axe. Suddenly he heard a very small voice: ^ "Do not hit me so hard!"
Master Antonio looked about the room.^ There was nobody who could say these words. He looked under the table — nobody. He, looked under the bed — nobody. He opened the door of his room and looked out into the street — there was nobody
' Antonio [an'touniou] — Ahtohho {myotccKoe umh).
2 Once upon ['waus a'pon] a time there was — OflHa»(;[bi
HCHJI-6bIJI . . .
3 of the name of — no HMeHH
he heard [haid] a very small voice [vdis] — oh yc;ibima.n TOHeHbKHii rOJIOCOK.
5 looked about the room — or.niifle;i KOMHaxy {6yKeaAbHo: nocMoipeji BOKpyr).