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Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep."

So then I made a drawing.

He looked at it carefully, then he said: "No. This sheep is already very sickly. Make me another."

So I made another drawing.

My friend smiled gently and indulgently.

You see yourself, he said, "that this is not a sheep.

This is a ram. It has horns."

So then I did my drawing over once more.

But it was rejected too, just like the others.

This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time.

By this time my patience was exhausted, because I was in a hurry to start taking my engine apart. So I tossed off this drawing.

And I threw out an explanation with it.

This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside.

I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge:

That is exactly the way I wanted it!

Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass?

Why?

Because where I live everything is very small . . .

There will surely be enough grass for him, I said.

It is a very small sheep that I have given you.

He bent his head over the drawing.