The Little Prince (22)

The Little Prince (22)

    And one day he said to me :  You ought to make a beautiful drawing,,so that the children where you live can see exactly how all this is.

  That would be very useful to them if they were to travel some day  Sometimes, " he added, " there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

  But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe.

  I knew a plant that was in habited by a lazy man. He neglected three little 

bushes. . . "

  So, as the little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet.

I do not much like to take the tone of a moralists

  But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood,and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserved

  " Children, " I say plainly, " watch out for the baobabs ! "

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