Earlier, the three pigs went to the water with their friend, the wolf.
As I said, it was a prior occasion, and they were on better terms,
but they still had a questionable understanding of substances.

They pigs decided to make boats to float in the lake,
each out of different materials.
The third pig, smart enough to realize that a brick boat
would probably not last long in this soldier’s seaway,
decided to make his ship out of cardboard, which was sturdy enough,
but capsized when the wolf blew it – just to give it a little push!

The second pig tried with her favorite material, wood.
There were no big logs about, and that would have tough
to build a tiny boat out of, so she assembled some twigs together
and fashioned something formidable, but the same winds from the wolf
blew the schooner apart, and though the pieces still floated,
they weren’t a ship no more.

The first pig, who liked hay, gave it a shot,
but since it was hay fever season, opted to work with tissue paper.
The same seasonal allergies left the wolf wheezy, giving the the piggy
a break from a breeze, but the boat got soaked,
being made of the absorbent material.
It went down almost immediately.

So the three piggies made no successful vehicles,
and decided to buy some at the concession stand.
The wolf lent them money, which might lend some motive
for later events.

There is no moral to this story, other than perhaps
“learn a bit more about what you’re going to build with,”
but maybe you knew that already.