ances of school and its troubles today, you may thank me. True friends are the only ones who know how to render service to one another."
"It is true, Candlewick. If today I am a free and happy boy, I owe it all to you. Yet the schoolmaster used to say to me, 'Do not associate with Candlewick, because he is a bad companion for you! and will only get you into trouble'."
"Poor master!" replied the other shaking his head, "I knew he disliked me, and spoke unkindly of me, but I will forgive him."
This happy life went on for five months. They never saw a book, they never studied a minute. They played from morning till night without a serious thought. But one morning when Pinocchio awoke he was surprised to find that something very disagreeable had happened, and the surprise and shock of it put him in a very bad humor.
