I noticed one of my neighbors walking beside his team, which was slowly drawing a heavy hewn stone swung under the axle, surrounded by an atmosphere of industry—his day’s work begun—his brow commenced to sweat—a reproach to all sluggards and idlers... while they gained their length on him. And I thought, Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect—honest, manly toil—honest as the day is long... doing the needful but irksome drudgery. Indeed, I felt a slight reproach, because I observed this from a window... I passed the yard of another neighbor, who keeps many servants, and spends much money foolishly, while he adds nothing to the common stock, and there I saw the stone of the morning lying beside a whimsical structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter’s premises, and the dignity forthwith departed from the teamster’s labor, in my eyes. In paragraph 5, to what does the “stone of the morning” refer?

A. the American Congress and its fight for independence
B. the stone pulled by the oxen of the first laborer
C. fruitless labor
D. a lawn statue
E. the common stock