Instead of returning home, come with us." "And where will you take me ?" "To the City of Simple Simons." Pinocchio thought a while and then said firmly: "No, I don't want to go.

Home is near, and I'm going where Father is waiting for me.

How unhappy he must be that I have not yet returned! I have been a bad son, and the Talking Cricket was right when he said that a disobedient boy cannot be happy in this world.

I have learned this at my own expense.

Even last night in the theater, when Fire Eater.