"Hurrah for Grandfather Frog! That's a great idea!" shouted Little
Joe Otter, turning a somersault in the water.

Every one agreed with Little Joe Otter, and immediately they began
to plan a grand hunt for the traps of Farmer Brown's boy.
The Muskrats and the Otters started to search the banks of the
Smiling Pool, and the Coons and the Minks, all but Billy, started
for the Laughing Brook. Billy climbed up on the Big Rock to watch,
and Grandfather Frog slowly swam back to his big green lily-pad to
wait for some foolish green flies for his breakfast.



CHAPTER V: A Busy Day At The Smiling Pool

Everybody was excited. Yes, Sir. everybody in the Smiling Pool and
along the Laughing Brook was just bubbling over with excitement.
Even Spotty the Turtle, who usually takes everything so calmly that
some people think him stupid, climbed up on the highest point of an
old log where he could see what was going on. Only Grandfather
Frog, sitting on his big green lily-pad and watching for foolish
green flies for his breakfast, appeared not to know that something
unusual was going on. Really, he was just as much excited as the
rest, but because he is very old and accounted very, very wise, it
would not do for him to show it.

What was it all about? Why, all the Minks and the Coons and the
Otters and the Muskrats, who live and play around the Smiling Pool
and the Laughing Brook, were hunting for traps. Yes, Sir, they were