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PINOCCHIO 187
“One of my schoolfellows. I wanted to
return home: I wanted to be obedient. I wished
to study and to earn a good character . . . but
Candlewick said to me: ‘Why should you
bother yourself by studying? Why should you
go to school? . . . Come with us instead to the
“Land of Boobies”: there we shall none of
us have to learn: there we shall amuse our¬
selves from morning to night, and we shall
always be merry. "
“And why did you follow the advice of
that false friend? of that bad companion? "
“Why?... Because, my dear little Marmot,
I am a puppet with no sense . . . and with no
heart. Ah! if I had had the least heart I should
never have left that good Fairy who loved me
like a mamma, and who had done so much for
me! . . . and I should be no longer a puppet
. . . for I should by this time have become a
little boy like so many others! But if I meet
Candlewick, woe to him! He shall hear what
I think of him!...”
And he turned to go out. But when he
reached the door he remembered his donkey s
ears, and feeling ashamed to show them in pub¬
lic, what do you think he did? He took a big
cotton cap, and putting it on his head he pulled
it well down over the point of his nose.
He then set out, and went everywhere in