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30 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty, in which Pinocchio, instead of becoming a boy,
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  Speaker 1: runs away to the land of toys with his friend
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  Speaker 1: lamp Wick. Coming out at last from the surprise into
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  Speaker 1: which the fairy's words had thrown him, Pinocchio asked for
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  Speaker 1: permission to give out the invitations. Well, indeed, you may
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  Speaker 1: invite your friends to tomorrow's party, only remember to return
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  Speaker 1: home before darc Do you understand. Oh, I'll be back
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  Speaker 1: in one hour without fail, answered the marionette. Well take care, Pinocchio.
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  Speaker 1: Boys give promises very easily, but they as easily forget them.
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  Speaker 1: But I am not like the others. When I give
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  Speaker 1: my word, I keep it. We shall see. In case
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  Speaker 1: you do disobey, you will be the one to suffer,
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  Speaker 1: not any one else. Why, because boys who do not
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  Speaker 1: listen to their elders always come to grief. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: certainly have said Pinocchio, But from now on I obey. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we shall see if you were telling the truth. And
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  Speaker 1: without adding another word, Pinocchio bade the good fairy good bye, and,
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  Speaker 1: singing and dancing, he left the house In a little
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  Speaker 1: more than an hour. All his friends were invited, some
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  Speaker 1: accepted quickly and gladly, others had to be coaxed, but
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  Speaker 1: when they heard that the toast was to be buttered
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  Speaker 1: on both sides, they all ended by accepting the invitation
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  Speaker 1: with the words, oh, we'll come to please you now.
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  Speaker 1: It must be known that among all his friends, Pinocchio
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  Speaker 1: had one whom he loved most of all. The boy's
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  Speaker 1: real name was Romeo, but everyone called him lamp Wick
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  Speaker 1: because he was tall and thin and had a woebegone
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  Speaker 1: look about him. Lamp Wick was the laziest boy in
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  Speaker 1: the school and the biggest mischief maker, but Pinocchio loved him.
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  Speaker 1: Dearly that day, he went straight to his friend's house
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  Speaker 1: to invite him to the party, but lamp Wick was
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  Speaker 1: not at home. He went a second time, and again
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  Speaker 1: a third, but still without success. Or where could he be?
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  Speaker 1: Pinocchio searched here, and there and everywhere, and finally discovered
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  Speaker 1: him hiding under a farmer's wagon. Or what are you
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  Speaker 1: doing there? Asked Pinocchio, running up to him. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 1: waiting for midnight to strike to go where far far away?
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  Speaker 1: And I have gone to your house three times to
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  Speaker 1: look for you? Or what did you want from me?
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  Speaker 1: Haven't you heard the news? Don't you know what good
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  Speaker 1: luck is mine? Or what is it? Tomorrow I end
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  Speaker 1: my days as a marionette and become a boy like you,
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  Speaker 1: then all my other friends, well may it bring your luck? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Shall I see you at my party tomorrow? But I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you that I go tonight. What time at midnight?
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going to? A real country, the best
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  Speaker 1: in the world, A wonderful place. What's it called? It's
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  Speaker 1: called the Land of Toys? Why don't you come to I? Oh? No,
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  Speaker 1: where You're making a big mistake, Pinocchio. Believe me, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't come, you'll be sorry. Now where can you
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  Speaker 1: find a place that will agree better with you and me?
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  Speaker 1: No schools, no teachers, no books in that blessed place.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as study here. It is
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  Speaker 1: only on Saturdays that we have no school. In the
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  Speaker 1: Land of Toys. Every day except Sunday, is a Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on
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  Speaker 1: the last day of December. Now that's the place for me.
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  Speaker 1: Should be like it? How happy we should all be.
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  Speaker 1: But how does one spend the day in the Land
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  Speaker 1: of toys? Asked Pinocchio. Days are spent in play and
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment from morn till night. At night one goes to bed,
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  Speaker 1: and the next morning the good times begin all over again.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of it? Mmmm, said Pinocchio, nodding
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  Speaker 1: his wooden head as if to say, well, it's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of life. They would agree with me perfectly. Well
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  Speaker 1: you want to go with me? Then yes? Or no?
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  Speaker 1: You have to make up your mind. No, no, and
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  Speaker 1: again no. I promise my fairy to become a good boy,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to keep my word. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: sun is setting, and I must leave you and run. Goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: good luck to you. Where are you going in sent?
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  Speaker 1: Hurry home? My good fairy wants me to return home
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  Speaker 1: before night. Wait two minutes more, it's too late. Only
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  Speaker 1: two minutes and if the fairy scolds me, let us scold.
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  Speaker 1: After she gets tired, she'll stop, said lamp Wick. Are
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  Speaker 1: you going alone or with others alone? There will be
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  Speaker 1: more than a hundred of us. Will you walk at midnight?
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  Speaker 1: The wagon passes here? That is to take us within
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  Speaker 1: the boundaries of that marvelous country. How I wish midnight
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  Speaker 1: would strike? Why to see you all set out together?
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  Speaker 1: We'll stay here a while longer, and you will see us. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I want to return home. Wait two more minutes. I've
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  Speaker 1: waited too long. As it is, the fairy will be worried. Now,
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  Speaker 1: poor fairy, is she afraid the bats will eat you up? Listen,
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  Speaker 1: lamp Wick, said Pinocchio. Are you really sure there are
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  Speaker 1: no schools in the land of Toys, not even the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of one, not even one teacher, not one. And
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  Speaker 1: one does not have to study, never, never, never. What
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  Speaker 1: a great land, said Pinocchio, feeling his mouth water, What
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful land. I've never been there, but I can
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  Speaker 1: well imagine it. Well, why don't you come too, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's useless for you to tempt me. I told you.
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  Speaker 1: I promised my good fairy to behave myself, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to keep my word. Well, goodbye then, and remember
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  Speaker 1: me to the grammar schools, to the high schools, and
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  Speaker 1: even to the colleges if you meet them on the way. Well, goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: lamp Wick, and have a pleasant trip, and enjoy yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and remember your friends once in a while. And with
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  Speaker 1: these words, Pinocchio started on his way home, turning once
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  Speaker 1: more to his friend and asked him, are you sure
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  Speaker 1: that in that country each week is composed of six
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  Speaker 1: Saturdays and one Sunday. Very sure, And that vacation begins
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  Speaker 1: on the first of January and ends on the thirty
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  Speaker 1: first of December, very very sure. What a great country,
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  Speaker 1: repeated Pinocchio, puzzled is what to do? And then, in
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  Speaker 1: sudden determination, he said, hurriedly, goodbye for the last time,
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  Speaker 1: and good luck, goodbye? How soon will you go? Within
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  Speaker 1: two hours? What a pity? If it were only one hour,
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  Speaker 1: I might wait for you and the fairy, oh by
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  Speaker 1: this time? Well, in one hour or more or less,
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  Speaker 1: makes makes very little difference. I'm white, you know, poor Pinocchio.
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  Speaker 1: If the fairy scolds you, no let her scold. After
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  Speaker 1: she gets tired, she'll stop. In the meantime, the night
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  Speaker 1: became darker and darker, and all at once in the distance,
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  Speaker 1: a small light flickered, A queer sound could be heard,
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  Speaker 1: soft us a little bell, and faint and muffled, like
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  Speaker 1: the buzz of a far away mosquito. There it is,
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  Speaker 1: cried lamp Wick, jumping to his feet, What, whispered Pinocchio,
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  Speaker 1: the wagon which is coming to get me for the
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  Speaker 1: last time? Are you coming or not? But is it
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  Speaker 1: really true that in that country boy's never have the study,
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  Speaker 1: never never never, Oh what a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that is the end of chapter thirty