When this little boy (whom the narr

When this little boy (whom the narrator begins to call the little prince) learns that the narrator dropped down from the sky in his airplane, he reveals that he, too, came from the sky. The narrator deduces that the boy is from another planet. When the narrator offers to draw him a string he can use to tie the sheep, the little prince says that the place he comes from is very small. The sheep cannot get lost there.