. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . ered Pinocchio. I amgoing home. I intend to study and to earn a goodcharacter at school, as all well-conducted boys do. Much good may it do you ! Pinocchio! called out Candlewick, listen tome: come with us and we shall have such fun. No, no, no! Come with us, and we shall have such fun,cried four other voices from the inside of the coach. Come with us, and we shall have such fun,shouted in chorus a hundred voices from the insideof the coach. But if I come with you, what will my good Fairysay ?r said the puppet, who was beginning to yield. Do not trouble you
. Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet . ered Pinocchio. I amgoing home. I intend to study and to earn a goodcharacter at school, as all well-conducted boys do. Much good may it do you ! Pinocchio! called out Candlewick, listen tome: come with us and we shall have such fun. No, no, no! Come with us, and we shall have such fun,cried four other voices from the inside of the coach. Come with us, and we shall have such fun,shouted in chorus a hundred voices from the insideof the coach. But if I come with you, what will my good Fairysay ?r said the puppet, who was beginning to yield. Do not trouble your head with melancholythoughts. Consider only that we are going to acountry where we shall be at liberty to run riot frommorning till night. Pinocchio did not answer ; but he sighed : hesighed again: he sighed for the third time, and hesaid finally: Make a little room for me, for I am coming too. The places are all full, replied the little man ; but to show you how welcome you are, you shallhave my seat on the box . And you ? . .*. The donkey . . threw the poor puppet into the middle of the road. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 207 Oh, I will go on foot. No, indeed, I could not allow that. I wouldrather mount one of these donkeys, cried Pinocchio. Approaching the right-hand donkey of the firstpair he attempted to mount him, but the animalturned on him, and giving him a great blow in thestomach rolled him over with his legs in the air. You can imagine the impertinent and immoderatelaughter of all the boys who witnessed this scene. But the little man did not laugh. He approachedthe rebellious donkey and, pretending to give him akiss, bit off half of his ear. Pinocchio in the meantime had got up from theground in a fury, and with a spring he seated him-self on the poor animals back. And he sprang sowell that the boys stopped laughing and began toshout: u Hurrah, Pinocchio ! and they clapped theirhands and applauded him as if they would never finish. But the donkey suddenly kicked up i
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