The Little Prince

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once, when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book Call The True Stories From Nature, about a primeval forest. It was a picture of a boat constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a culprit of drooling. In the book, it said. Bird constrictors swallow their prey whole without chewing it. After that, they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six month that they need for digestion, I pondered apply than over the adventures of the Jungle. And after some of wars with a color pencil, I succeed in making my first drawing my journey. Number one. It looks something like this. I saw my masterpiece to the grownups and asked them, whatever the drawing frightened at them. But I answer frightened. Why should any wound be frightened by a hat? My drawing was not a picture, not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a BoE constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grounds ups were not able to understand it, I make another drawing a true inside of boa constrictor, so the grown ups could seen it Clearly. They always need to have things, explained it. My driving number two looks like this. The grownups response this time was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of blood constrictors, whatever from the inside. Or are they outside? And if it must have, instead of geography, history, mathematics and grammar? That is why, at the age of six, I give up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.