"Oh!"
I had been so proud of my baobabs!
"Your fox--his ears look a little like horns; and they are too long."
And he laughed again.
"You are not fair, little prince," I said.
"I don't know how to draw anything except boa constrictors from the outside and boa constrictors from the inside."
"Oh, that will be all right," he said, "children understand."
So then I made a pencil sketch of a muzzle.
And as I gave it to him my heart was torn.
"You have plans that I do not know about," I said.