"Pinocchio!" called out Candlewick, "listen to me: come with us and we shall have such fun."
"No, no, no!"
"Come with us and we shall have such fun," shouted in chorus a hundred voices from the inside of the coach.
"But if I come with you, what will my good Fairy say?" said the puppet, who was beginning to yield.
"Do not trouble your head with melancholy thoughts. Consider only that we are going to a country where we shall be at liberty to run riot from morning till night."
Pinocchio did not answer, but he sighed; he sighed again; he sighed for the third time, and he said finally:
"Make a little room for me, for I am coming, too."
"The places are all full," replied the little man; "but, to show you how welcome you are, you shall have my seat on the box."
"And you?"
"Oh, I will go on foot."