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04 - The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi · Classic Adventure Books Collection

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  Chapter four, the Story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one
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  sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more
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  than they do. Very little time did it take to get poor old geppetto
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  to prison. In the meantime that Rascal Pinocchio, free now from the clutches
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  of the carabineer, was running wildly across the fields and meadows, taking one
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  short cut after another toward home. In his wild flight, he leapt over
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  brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds, as if he were a
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  goat or a hare chased by hounds. On reaching home, he found the
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  house door half open. He slipped into the room, locked the door,
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  and threw himself on the floor, happy at his escape. But his happiness
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  lasted only a short time, for just then he heard some one saying,
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  cree, cree, creer, Who is calling me? Asked Pinocchio, Greatly
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  frightened, I am Pinocchio turned and saw a large cricket crawling slowly up the
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  wall. Tell me, cricket, who are you? I am the talking
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  cricket, and I have been living in this room for more than one hundred
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  years to day. However, this room is mine, said the marionette,
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  And if you wish to do me a favor, get out now, and
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  don't turn round even once. I refuse to leave this spot, answered the
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  cricket, until I have told you a great truth, Tell it then,
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  and hurry. Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away
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  from home. They will never be happy in this world, and when they
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  are older, they will be very sorry for it. Sing on, cricket,
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  mine as you please. What I know is that tomorrow at dawn,
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  I leave this place forever. If I stay here, the same thing will
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  happen to me, which happens to all other boys and girls. They are
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  sent to school, and whether they want to or not, they must study.
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  As for me, let me tell you, I hate to study.
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  It's much more fun, I think, to chase after butterflies, climb trees
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  and steal birds nests. Poor little silly, don't you know that if you
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  go on like that, you will grow into a perfect donkey, and that
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  you will be the living stock of everyone. Keep still, you, ugly
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  cricket, cried Pinocchio. But the cricket, who was a wise old philosopher,
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  instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone.
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  If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn
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  a trade so that you can earn an honest living. Shall I tell you
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  something, asked Pinocchio, who was beginning to lose patience. Of all the
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  trades in the world, there is only one that really suits me. And
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  what can that be? That of eating, drinking, sleeping, playing,
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  and wandering around from morning till night. Let me tell you for your your
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  own good, Pinocchio said the talking cricket in his calm voice, that those
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  who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison. Careful,
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  ugly cricket, if you make me angry, you will be sorry.
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  Poor Pinocchio, I am sorry for you. Why because you are a marionette.
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  And what is much worse, you have a wooden head. At these
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  last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the
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  bench, and threw it with all his strength at the talking cricket. Perhaps
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  he did not think he would strike it, but sad to relate my dear
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  children, he did hit the cricket straight on its head with a last week
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  Crea creat Create the Poor. Cricket fell from the wall dead end of chapter four