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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 ourselves 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 public, 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
