Mud Pies and Stone Soup

I invited my neighbors to make stone soup one brought carrots and one brought potatoes we were really quite a happy group we even had beef and home grown tomatoes Then some fellow came along and added mud pies brown and gritty we tried to find out what went wrong and what we found was not so pretty The awful filth just permeated, we had to start brand new I hope that none of your children ate it 'cause mud ain't good for stew .