Picked a pebble from the sand.
‘I wish that I were small,’ sighed he,
‘For I would gay and youthful be.’
“‘Size has naught to do with age,’
Said the Pebble to the Sage.
‘You’re very old, one might remark,
But I watched Noah build the ark.’”
Seeing from the rather blank expression on Wongo’s face that he had failed to understand the reference to Noah and the Ark, the crow continued more bluntly:
“And thus, my friend, although you’re big,
So’s a jackass or a pig.