The Little Prince (78)

The Little Prince (78)

    XIX

  AFTER THAT, the little prince climbed a high mountain.



  The only mountains he had ever known was the three volcanoes, which came up to his knees.

  And he used the extinct volcano as a foot-stool.

  " From  a mountains as high as this one, " he said to himself,  " I shall be able to see the whole planet at one glance, and all the people. . ."

  But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened like needles.

  " Good morning, " he said courteously.

  " Good morning ー Good morning － Good morning, " answered the echo.

  " Who are you ? " said the little prince.

  " Who are you ー Who are you ー Who are you ? " answered the echo.

  " Be my friends. I am all alone, " he said.

  " I am all alone ー all alone, " answered the echo.

  " What a queer planet ! " he thought.
  " It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbdding. And people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them. . .On my palnet I had a flower, she always was first to speak. . ." 

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