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Chapter one

Once when i was six years old

I saw a magnificent picture in a book

Called true stories from nature about the premival forest

It was a picture of a bora constructor in the act of swalling an animal

Here is a copy of the drawing in the book

It said

Borrgh constructors swallow their pry whole without chewing

After

After they are not able to move

And they sleep through the six months

That they need for digestion

I pounded deeply dead over the adventures of the jungle

And after some work with a collored pencil

I succeded in making my first drawing

My drawwing number one

It looked something like this

I showed my mouter bees to the grnuups asasked them

Whether drawing frightened them

But they answered frightened

Why should anyone be frightened by a heart

My drawy was not a picture of a heart

It was a picture of a bora constructor

Digesting an elephant

But since the grownuus were not able to understand it

I made another jury

I dreed inside of a borough constructor

So that the grownuus could see it clearly

They always need to have things explained my drawy number two looked like this

The grounnupse response this time was to advise me

To lay aside my drawings of bora constructors

Whether from the inside or the outside and devote myself instead to geography

History

Ariismetic and grammar

That is why at the age of six

I gave up what i might have been a magnificent career as a painter

I had a be dishartened by the failure of my drawing number one and my drawing number two

Grown ups never understand anything by themselves

And it is tyissome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

So then i chose another profession and learned to pilot airplanes

I have flown a little overall parts of the world

And it is true

That geography has been very useful to me

At a glance

I can distinguish china from arizona

If one gets lost in the night

Such knowledge is valuable in the cause of this life

I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence

I have lived a great deal among growing ups

I have seen them intimately close at hand

And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them

Whenever i met one of them who seemed to me at all clearcited

I tried the experiment of showing him my dwing number one which i have always kept

I would try to find out

Sir

If this was a person of true understanding

But whoever it was he or she would always say that is a heart

Then i would never talk to that person about borouconstrustrutors or premial forests or stars

I would bring myself down to his level

I would talk to him about the bridge and golf and politics and nickties and grown up

Would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man