The Little Prince Page #2

There.

And that's the last.

There's no horns.

No.

It's not sick.

No.

- Well, then?

- It's old.

I'm sorry.

It's only his box.

The sheep you asked for is inside.

That's perfect.

Exactly the way I wanted it.

It is?

Good.

- Will the sheep need a lot of grass?

- Why?

I told you. Where I come from

everything is very small.

Don't worry. It's a very small sheep.

This sheep isn't so small.

Alas, I couldn't argue with him.

I'd grown too old to see sheep

through the walls of boxes.

- "Is Paris on this planet?"

- Of course it is. Did you forget?

No, I didn't forget. But why did you ask?

Aren't you from this planet?

What's good about this box is

at night he can use it as his house.

Sh! He's just going to sleep.

Oh. Sorry.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Where, in God's name,

could you have come from?

Up there.

- Do you know what asteroids are?

- What what are?

- Asteroids.

- No.

They're very, very small planets.

The smallest, Asteroid B-612,

was discovered by

a Turkish astronomer in 1909.

I think you may live on Asteroid B-612.

What do you think?

I think you may live on Asteroid B-612.

What do you think?

Does that mean

they also eat baobab bushes?

- Hm? Who?

- The sheep.

Do they also eat flowers?

- Do they?

- Just hold it a minute.

- Do they also eat flowers?

- What?

Oh. Yes, they do.

Except the flowers

that have thorns, of course.

- No, they even eat ones with thorns.

- But the thorns protect them.

Maybe from being picked,

not from being eaten.

Then what's the good of having them?

- Having what?

- Thorns!

I don't know! Spite, I suppose.

Flowers have thorns just for spite.

I don't believe you.

Flowers are weak and helpless.

How could they face the world without

believing in their thorns' protection?

- What I'm trying to do is important.

- Important?

Flowers have grown thorns

for millions of years.

And for millions of years,

sheep have eaten them just the same!

- You think that's not important?

- It is.

I know one flower that's unique

in all the world. It's on my planet.

But some morning,

a sheep can destroy it with one bite.

- And you think that's not important?

- I suppose so.

What you don't understand is

that if someone loves one flower

that grows on one star among

all the millions of stars in the sky,

it makes him happy to look at the stars.

He can say to himself,

"Somewhere my flower's up there. "

But if the sheep eats the flower,

all the stars will go dark.

And you think that's not important?

It's not a matter

of consequence to you, is it?

Wait!

Wait! Come back!

I most humbly apologise!

I was behaving like a grown-up!

Your flower is very important!

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