If Master Toad is quite as smart as we.’
Accordingly a massive stone was found,
Of ponderous weight, unwieldy, large, and round;
But cheerfully the lads their muscles strained,
With ends so laudable to be attained.
Just then, by curious chance, there passed that way
An over-loaded, heavy-rumbling dray.
An aged donkey, deaf, half-starved, and lame,
Was harnessed to the cart—the more’s the shame—
And on its back a pannier also bore.