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,