Great-Grandfather Frog, who, you know, is accounted very, very wise.

Grandfather Frog cleared his throat. "Chugarum!" said he. "You must
find all the traps that Farmer Brown's boy has set."

"How are we going to do it?" asked Bobby Coon.

"By looking for them," replied Grandfather Frog tartly.

Bobby Coon looked foolish and slipped out of sight behind his mother.

"All the Coons and all the Minks must search along the banks of the
Laughing Brook, and all the Muskrats and all the Otters must search
along the banks of the Smiling Pool. You must use your eyes and your
noses. When you find things good to eat where you have never found
them before, watch out! When you get the first whiff of the man-smell,
watch out! Billy Mink, you are small and quick, and your eyes are
sharp. You sit here on the Big Rock until you see Farmer Brown's
boy coming. Then go hide in the bulrushes where you can watch him,
but where he cannot see you. Follow him everywhere he goes around
the Smiling Pool or along the Laughing Brook. Without knowing it,
he will show you where every trap is hidden.

"When all the traps have been found, drop a stick or a stone in each.
That will spring them, and then they will be harmless. Then you can
bury them deep in the mud. But don't eat any of the food until you
have sprung all of the traps, for just as likely as not you will get
caught. When all the traps have been sprung, why not bring all the
good things to eat which you find around them to the Big Rock and
have a grand feast?"