I pondered deeply， then， over the adventures of the jungle。 And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing。 My Drawing Number One。 It looked like this：
之后，我就对丛林中的奇遇思考得很多。于是，我用彩色铅笔画出了我的第一幅图画。我的第一号作品。它是这样的：
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups， and asked them whether the drawing frightened them。
我把这幅杰作拿给大人们看，我问他们这幅画是不是叫他们害怕。
But they answered： “Frighten？ Why should any one be frightened by a hat？”
他们回答我说：“可怕？一顶帽子有什么可怕的？”
My drawing was not a picture of a hat。 It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant。 But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it， I made another drawing： I drew the inside of the boa constrictor， so that the grown-ups could see it clearly。 They always need to have things explained。 My Drawing Number Two looked like this：