CHAPTER 20.
Freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to the Fairy; but on the way he meets a Serpent and later is caught in a trap.
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
It had rained for many days, and the road was so muddy that, at times, Pinocchio sank down almost to his knees.
But he kept on bravely.
Tormented by the wish to see his father and his fairy sister with azure hair, he raced like a greyhound.

As he ran, he was splashed with mud even up to his cap.
"How unhappy I have been," he said to himself.

"And yet I deserve everything, for I am certainly very stubborn and stupid! I will always have my own way.

I won't listen to those who love me and who have more brains than I.But from now on, I'll be different and I'll try to become a most obedient boy.

I have found out, beyond any doubt whatever, that disobedient boys are certainly far from happy, and that, in the long run, they always lose out.