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A SORROW AND A FAR JOURNEY
As soon as Pinocchio was relieved of the weight of the hard and humiliating collar he started to run across the fields, and never stopped once until he had reached the highroad that led to the house of the Fairy. There he turned and looked back on the forest where he had been so unlucky as to meet the cat and the fox, and there in the middle he saw the great oak to which they had tied him, but though he looked in every direction for the little white house where lived his dear Fairy with the Blue Hair, he could not find it at all. A feeling of sadness and fear came over him and he ran as fast as his legs would take him. In a few minutes he reached the field where the little white
