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First he checks on the lions. "How are you this morning, lions?" he asks, and the lions reply, "Fine thanks, Noah". Next he asks the giraffes and gets the same answer. Moving along the deck he pops in to see the elephants. "How are you this morning, elephants?" he enquires. "Oh, you know, bit short of space but otherwise quite happy thanks Noah". Having checked all the big mammals he moves down one deck to the small mammal deck and repeats the procedure. he goes to the next deck and gets positive replies from the gibbons, the aardvarks, the wallabies and all the rest. He descends to the next deck down and enquires of the health and welfare of the birds, bees, ants and tiny crawling creatures. He is just about to venture back upstairs when he notices water seeping under a door. Being more than a little concerned he flings open the door and is promptly knocked off his feet by the wall of water which escapes. Quickly he fights his way in and taking his lump of pitch starts to fill in all the hundreds of tiny holes. Eventually he sealed up the room and ran back upstairs to his wife. "Look", he yelled "how many times do we have to go through this, I pilot the ark, you feed the animals, and for pity's sake feed the woodworm first!"
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