"A friend of mine. I wanted to go back to school, I wanted to study and to be an honor to the good Fairy, but Candlewick said to me, 'In the Country of Nothing-But-Play no one studies, and we can play from morning till night.'
"Why did you follow the advice of a bad companion?"
"Why? Because, Mrs. Dormouse, I am a foolish heartless marionette. Oh, if I had only had a good heart I should never have left my good Fairy, who loved me like a Mother, and did so much for me. And by this time I should have been a little boy like all the rest instead of a marionette. Oh, if I had not met Candlewick!”
He turned to the door. But when he reached it he remembered his donkey ears and being ashamed to be seen in public what do you think he did? He made a dunce cap, and putting it on his head, pulled it down over his ears. Then he set out to look for Candlewick, but for a long time he could not find him, though he sought in the streets, in the theaters, everywhere, and asked about
