One boy made a noise like a hen, another like a rooster, and a third imitated a lion in his den.

All together they created such a pandemonium that it would have been necessary for you to put cotton in your ears.

The squares were filled with small wooden theaters, overflowing with boys from morning till night, and on the walls of the houses, written with charcoal, were words like these: HURRAH FOR THE LAND OF TOYS! DOWN WITH ARITHMETIC! NO MORE SCHOOL! As soon as they had set foot in that land, Pinocchio, Lamp-Wick, and all the other boys who had traveled with them started out on a tour of investigation.

They wandered everywhere, they looked into every nook and corner, house and theater.

They became everybody's friend.