found that the sweet singers were not there. It was very mysterious.
Finally he asked Peter Rabbit if he knew who the sweet singers were
and where they were. Peter didn't know, but he was willing to try to
find out. Peter is always willing to try to find out about things he
doesn't already know about. So Johnny Chuck and Peter Rabbit started
out to find the sweet singers.

"I believe they are down in the old bulrushes around the Smiling
Pool," said Peter Rabbit, as he stood listening with a hand behind one
long ear.

So over to the Smiling Pool they hurried. The nearer they got, the
louder became the voices singing:

"Spring! Spring! Spring! Spring!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Spring!"

But look as they would, they couldn't see a single singer among the
brown bulrushes. It was very strange, very strange indeed! It seemed
as if the voices came right out of the Smiling Pool itself!

When Peter Rabbit made a little noise, as he hopped out on the bank
where he could look all over the Smiling Pool, the singing stopped.
After he had sat perfectly still for a little while, it began again.
There was no doubt about it this time; those voices came right out of
the water.

Johnny Chuck stared at Peter Rabbit, and Peter stared at Johnny Chuck.
Nobody was to be seen in the Smiling Pool, and yet there were those
voices--oh, so many of them--coming right out of the water.