I should have become a real boy, like all these friends of mine! Oh, if I meet Lamp-Wick I am going to tell him what I think of him--and more, too!" After this long speech, Pinocchio walked to the door of the room.

But when he reached it, remembering his donkey ears, he felt ashamed to show them to the public and turned back.

He took a large cotton bag from a shelf, put it on his head, and pulled it far down to his very nose.
Thus adorned, he went out.

He looked for Lamp-Wick everywhere, along the streets, in the squares, inside the theatres, everywhere; but he was not to be found.

He asked everyone whom he met about him, but no one had seen him.