> 	"Come and play with me," proposed the little prince.  "I am so unhappy."
> 	"I cannot play with you," the fox said.  "I am not tamed."
> 	"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince.
> 	But after some thought, he added:
> 	"What does that mean -- 'tame'?"
>
>  ------
>
> 	"I am looking for friends.  What does that mean -- 'tame'?"
> 	"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox.  "It means to
> establish ties."
> 	"'To establish ties'?"
> 	"Just that," said the fox.  "To me, you are still nothing more than
> a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.  And I
> have no need of you.  And you, on your part, have no need of me.  To you, I
> am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.  But if you
> tame me, then we shall need each ohter.  To me, you will be unque in all the
> world.  To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . . "
>
> ------
>
> 	"All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike.
> And, in consequence, I am a little bored.  But if you tame me, it will be as
> if the sun came to shine on my life.  I shall know the sound of a step that
> will be different from all the others.  Other steps send me hurrying back
> underneath the ground.  Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
> And then look:  you see the grain-fields down yonder?  I do not eat bread.
> Wheat is of no use to me.  The wheat fields have nothing to say to me.  And
> that is sad.  But you have hair that is the color of gold.  Think how
> wonderful that will be when you have tamed me!  The grain, which is also
> golden, will bring me back the thought of you.  Ant I shall love to listen
> to the wind in the wheat . . . "
> 	The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
> 	"Please -- tame me!" he said.
> 	"I want to, very much," the little prince replied.  "But I have not
> much time.  I have friends to discover, and a great many things to
> understand."
> 	"One only understands the things one tames," said the fox.  "Men
> have not more time to understand anything.  They buy things all ready made
> at the shops.  But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship,
> and so men have no friends anymore.  If you wnat a friend, tame me . . . "
> 	"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
> 	"You must be very patient," replied the fox.  "First you will sit
> down at a little distance from me -- like that -- in the grass.  I shall look
> at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing.  Words are the
> source of misunderstandings.  But you will sit a little closer to me, every
> day ..."
> 	The next day the little prince came back.
> 	"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the
> fox.  "If, for example, you came at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at
> three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.  I shall feel happier and happier
> as the hour advances.  At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and
> jumping about.  I shall show you how happy I am!  But if you come at just
> any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet
> you ... One must observe the proper rites ..."
> 	"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.
> 	"Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox.  "They
> are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours."
>
> ------
>
> 	"Goodbye," said the fox.  "And now here is my secret, a very simple
> secret:  It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
> essential is invisible to the eye."
> 	"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince
> repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
> 	"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose
> so important."
> 	"It is the time I have wasted for my rose --" said the little
> prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
> 	"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox.  "But you must not
> forget it.  You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.  You
> are responsible for your rose..."
> 	"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that
> he would be sure to remember.
>
> FINIS
>