"I? No, indeed."
"You are wrong, Pinocchio. Believe me, if you don't come you will be sorry. Where could you find a better place for boys? There are no schools; there are no teachers; there are no school books. In that delightful country they never study. On Saturdays you have no school here, and there every day is Saturday except one, and that is Sunday. Just think, the vacation begins the first day of January and ends the last day of December! That is the country for me. That is what I think all civilized countries should be like."
"But how do you pass the days in the Country of Nothing-But-Play?"
"Why, you play from morning till night. At night you go to bed, and next morning it is the same thing all over again. How would you like that?"
"Uhm!" said Pinocchio and he nodded his head as if to say "That country would please me very well.”
“Then you will go with me? Yes or no?”
"No, no, no! I have promised my kind Fairy to become a good boy and I mean to
