Then they both laughed with glee
When from off the oak tree
A shower of large acorns fall down they espied.
“They begged they might take some, because, to be brief,
To take without asking would cause them both grief;
When they asked of the oak,
The old tree never spoke,
But only just boughed and thus gave them its leaf.
“So they munched at the acorns and had a great feast,