Le Petit Prince01

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.

It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

In the book it said: " Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it.

After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle.

And after some work with a coloured pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.

My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: " Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat? "

My drawing was not a picture of a hat.