And of course, if the water couldn't keep on
running and laughing on its way to the Smiling Pool, it would just
stand still and grow and grow into a pond. Of course! There was
nothing else for it to do. Spotty felt very proud when he had
thought that out all by himself.
"This wall we are sitting on has made the pond," said Spotty the
Turtle, after a long time in which no one had spoken.
"You don't say so!" said Billy Mink. "How ever, ever, did you guess it?
Are you sure, quite sure that the pond didn't make the wall?"
Spotty knew that Billy Mink was making fun of him, but he is too
good-natured to lose his temper over a little thing like that.
He tried to think of something smart to say in reply, but Spotty is
a slow thinker as well as a slow walker, and before he could think
of anything, Billy was talking once more.
"This wall is what Farmer Brown's boy calls a dam," said Billy Mink,
who is a great traveler. "Dams are usually built to keep water from
running where it isn't wanted or to make it go where it is wanted.
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