Somebody has filled up the hole that I worked so hard to make
yesterday, and it will take me all day to open it up again."
Then Grandfather Frog and Spotty the Turtle and Billy Mink and
Little Joe Otter and Jerry Muskrat stared at one mother, and for a
long time no one said a word.
CHAPTER XXI: Jerry Muskrat Keeps Watch
"The way in which to find things out,
And what goes on all round about,
Is just to keep my two eyes peeled
And two ears all the time unsealed."
So said Jerry Muskrat, as he settled himself comfortably on one end
of the new dam across the Laughing Brook deep in the Green Forest
and watched the dark shadows creep farther and farther out into the
strange pond made by the new dam.
"I'm going to find out who it is that built this dam, and who it is
that filled the hole I made in it! I'm going to find out if I have
to move up here and live all summer!" The way in which Jerry said
this and snapped his teeth together showed that he meant just what
he said.
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