The Little Prince (89)

The Little Prince (89)

    XXII

  " GOOD MORNINGS " said the little princes

  " Good morning, " said the merchant.

  This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented quench thirst.

  You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need of anything to drink.

  " Why are you selling those ? " asked the little princes

  " Because they save a tremendous amount of times " said the merchant.

  " Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week. "

  " And what I do with those fifty-three minutes ? " 

  " Anything you like. . . " 

  " As for me, " said the little prince to himself, " if I had fifty-three to spend as I  like, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh waters "

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