What can one expect when the Devil is in it?'

Then an accident happened, which caused Nick at last

To rage, fume, and swear; when the fourth hour had passed,

On his hoof there came rolling a huge mass of quartz.

Then quite out of sorts

The bad tempered old cove

Sent the huge mass of stone whizzing over to Hove.

He worked on again, till a howl and a cry

Told the Saint one more hour—the fifth—had gone by.

'What's the row?' asked the Saint, 'A cramp in the wrist,