"Are you really my own dear Pinocchio ?" "Yes, yes, yes! It is I! Look at me! And you have forgiven me, haven't you?
Oh, my dear Father, how good you are! And to think that I--Oh, but if you only knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and how many troubles I have had! Just think that on the day you sold your old coat to buy me my A-B-C book so that I could go to school, I ran away to the Marionette Theater and the proprietor caught me and wanted to burn me to cook his roast lamb! He was the one who gave me the five gold pieces for you, but I met the Fox and the Cat, who took me to the Inn of the Red Lobster.

There they ate like wolves and I left the Inn alone and I met the Assassins in the wood.

I ran and they ran after me, always after me, till they hanged me to the branch of a giant oak tree.

Then the Fairy of the Azure Hair sent the coach to rescue me and the doctors, after looking at me, said, 'If he is not dead, then he is surely alive,' and then I told a lie and my nose began to grow.

It grew and it grew, till I couldn't get it through the door of the room.