Pee-wee gave him a little poke with his foot but to no avail.

They turned him around, setting him this way and that, they tried to pry his tail out but it went back like a spring.
They moved him a few yards distant in hopes that the change of scene might make him more sociable.

But he showed no more sign of life than a fossil would have shown.

So again they all waited.

And they waited and waited and waited.