← As ridiculous as it may seem, a thousand miles from any human habitation and with my life hanging by a thread, I took out some paper and a pencil from my pocket. 🔊✎
← That’s why I bought a paint-box and some coloured pencils. 🔊✎
← No doubt I’ll get some more important things wrong too, but you’ll just have to forgive me. 🔊✎
← It’s not more serious and more important than some red-faced gentleman’s sums? 🔊✎
← He was sitting silently in front of a large collection of bottles, some of them empty and some of them full. 🔊✎
← But all the same, he had some more questions. 🔊✎
← “Ah!” I said to the little prince, “these things you remember are very pretty, but I still haven’t fixed my plane, I’ve got nothing left to drink, and I’d also be very happy if I could stroll quietly to some fountain!” 🔊✎
← “I was thirsty for this water,” said the little prince, “give me some to drink…” 🔊✎
← I moistened his temples and made him drink some water. 🔊✎
← Some evening, he forgot the glass cover, or maybe the sheep escaped silently during the night…” And then all the little bells turn into tears!