他接着又说：
I had been so proud of my baobabs!
他的脸颊绯红。
"You have plans that I do not know about," I said.
"Your fox― his ears look a little like horns; and they are too long."And he laughed again.
我们找到的这口井，和撒哈拉的那些井不一样。撒哈拉的井只是戈壁中挖的洞。这口井很像村庄中的井。但是，那边又没有任何村落，我想我必然是在梦中。
“小家伙，你太不公道了。我畴昔只会画开着肚皮和闭着肚皮的巨蟒。”
这时我才明白了他一向寻觅的是甚么！
"What promise"
And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.
“你画的狐狸……它那双耳朵……有点像羊犄角……并且又太长了！”
"Do you hear" said the little prince. "We have wakened the well, and it is singing..."I did not want him to tire himself with the rope.
“猎奇特啊，”我对小王子说，“统统都是现成的：辘轳、水桶、绳索……”
“哦！”
“哦，如许也能够了。”他说，“孩子们认得出来。”
“能够是因为周年到了吧？……”
“甚么承诺？”
“我很想喝这水。”小王子说，“给我喝点……”
我喝了水。我舒畅地呼吸着氛围。戈壁在晨光中泛出蜂蜜的光芒。这蜂蜜般的光芒也使我感到幸运。那么，是甚么给我这些哀痛的感受呢？
这时，他又笑了。
小王子的脸又红了。
“他们是找不到的。”我答复道。
"Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round..."And he added:
"It is not worth the trouble..."The well that we had come to was not like the wells of the Sahara. The wells of the Sahara are mere holes dug in the sand. This one was like a well in a village. But there was no village here, and I thought I must be dreaming...