CHAPTER ONE

PICTURES


One day, I drew a picture of a snake with an elephant inside it.

“Why?” you ask me.

This is my answer. I drew the picture because I read an interesting book about snakes. Snakes catch animals and they eat them whole.

I was six years old and it was my first picture. It is my “Picture Number One”. Here it is.

I showed my picture to some grown-ups and I asked them, “Are you frightened by my picture?”

All of them said the same thing, “I’m not frightened by a picture of a hat.”

But it was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a snake with an elephant inside it.

Then I drew my Picture Number Two because grown-ups are not very intelligent. Here it is.

I showed Picture Number Two to the grown-ups, but they were not interested in it.

I was sad and I stopped drawing pictures. I went to school and I learned about other things. Then I became a grown-up and I learned to fly planes. I flew planes all over the world and I met lots of other grown-ups.

Sometimes, I show my Picture Number One to other grown-ups, but they are not very intelligent. (I told you this before.) They always say, “It’s a hat.” And I do not show them Picture Number Two.

Then, one day, I met the little prince and I showed a picture to him. I crashed my plane in the Sahara Desert and I met him the next day.