"You see, we are all worried. We thought last
night that by this morning the Laughing Brook would be full of water
again, and we could go back to the Smiling Pool as soon as we felt
like it, and here it is as bad as ever."
"Perhaps the trouble is just that some sticks and grass drifted down
in the water and filled up the hole I made; that must be the
trouble," said Jerry hopefully, as he hurried towards the dam.
First he carefully examined it from the Laughing Brook side. Then he
dived down under water on the other side. He was gone a long time,
and Billy Mink was just getting ready to dive to see what had become
of him when he came up again.
"What is the trouble?" cried Spotty the Turtle and Grandfather Frog
and Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter together. "Is the hole filled up
with stuff that has drifted in?"
Jerry shook his head, as he slowly climbed out of the water. "No,"
said he. "No, it isn't filled with drift stuff brought down by
the water. It is filled with sticks and mud that somebody has put there.
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