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PINOCCHIO
"Well let her scold. When she is tired of scolding she will stop."
In the meantime it had become quite dark. Suddenly as they talked they saw moving along the road in the distance, a faint little light, and heard the tooting of little trumpets so fine and small that they sounded like the buzzing of a mosquito.
"Here they are!" shouted Candlewick jumping up.
"What is it?” asked Pinocchio in a low voice.
"It is the coach coming for me? Now will you go? Yes or no?"
"But are you sure," asked the marionette, "that in that country the boys are never obliged to study?”
"Never, never, never!"
"What a delightful country it must be!"
