And tell Paul what he ought to do about it.

(They treated it as his.) “You take a jack-knife,

And spread the opening, and you’ve got a dug-out

All dug to go a-fishing in.” To Paul

The hollow looked too sound and clean and empty

Ever to have housed birds or beasts or bees.

There was no entrance for them to get in by.

It looked to him like some new kind of hollow

He thought he’d better take his jack-knife to.

So after work that evening he came back