Algy fluttered over to a small, stunted birch tree that was overhanging the water, and made himself comfortable among the mass of twiggy branches and wee green leaves. It was so quiet and peaceful by the lochan that Algy soon began to doze, but suddenly he heard a sound that made him start. A frog had jumped into the water – Plop! – from the rock where Algy had been perching just a little while ago; it inevitably reminded him of that most famous of all Japanese haiku:
The old pond;
a frog jumps in —
the sound of the water.
[Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto]
[Algy is quoting the famous haiku by the 17th century Japanese master Matsuo Bashô.]
The Adventures of Algy 