But Billy Mink is like a great many other people; he dearly loves to
have the last word. Now he suddenly began to laugh.
"Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho!" laughed Billy Mink. "Ho, ho, ho!
Ha, ha, ha!"
"What is it that is so funny?" snapped Grandfather Frog, for nothing
makes him so angry as to be laughed at.
"Do you mean to say that anybody but Farmer Brown or Farmer Brown's
boy could have cut down such a big tree as that?" asked Billy.
"Why, that would be as hard as to drag the tree here."
"Jerry Muskrat's big cousin from the North could do it, and I
believe he did," replied Grandfather Frog. "Now that we have found
the cause of the trouble in the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool,
what are we going to do about it?"
CHAPTER XIX: Jerry Muskrat Has A Busy Day
There was the strange pond in the Green Forest, and there was the
dam of logs and sticks and mud which had made the strange pond, but
look as they would, Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter and Jerry
Muskrat and Grandfather Frog and Spotty the Turtle could see nothing
of the one who had built the dam.
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