“Is it true that sheep eat little bushes?” “Yes. That’s true.” “Ah! That’s good.”
I didn’t understand why it was so important that sheep ate little bushes.
But the little prince added, “So they also eat baobabs?”
I told the little prince that baobabs aren’t little bushes.
The baobabs are right the opposite. They are trees as large as churches.
And that even if he took nine big elephants back to his planet, those elephants couldn’t eat one single baobab.
The idea of nine elephants made the little prince laugh, “They would have to stand on each other.”
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But he said something clever, “The baobabs, before they grow so big, they’re very small at the beginning.”
“That’s right,” I said. “But why is it important that your sheep eats the little baobabs?”
He said, “Oh, come on! You know,” as if we were talking about something clear and simple.
And then I had to use my intelligence to solve the problem, without any assistance.
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