Maybe if I'd been with Pinocchio, when he first met those two sharpies, I could have stopped it.
6 seconds sound clip from the Pinocchio (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:23:30 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- As we dream beside the fire, where the flames cast dancing patterns on the hearth...
- We wait politely for our friend the cricket to continue his story.
- He's paused to allow a large round tear to roll down his cricket face.
- Well, it was my fault. I should have known better.
- Maybe if I'd been with Pinocchio, when he first met those two sharpies, I could have stopped it.
- But there he was, an actor in Stromboli's marionette show. I went to the show that night to see him.
- And by special permission of the management... that's a-me, too...
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