Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.
Carlo CollodiPinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
Carlo CollodiToday at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!
Carlo Collodi