To Doug—with a sleeping drug in it.

Dougal, gleaming of eye, the glass lifted high

And drank it down, swiftly and deep;

In no time at all, he lay there asprawl

In impotent, stertorous sleep.

V

A pungent aroma jarred Doug from his coma

Much later. He lifted his head

To find he was not in the cool, shady grot

But in some sort of workshop, instead.