Mistress Spring was making everybody happy on the Green Meadows and in
the Green Forest and around the Smiling Pool. With her gentle fingers
she wakened one by one all the little sleepers who had spent the long
winter dreaming of warm summer days and not knowing anything at all of
rough, blustering Brother North Wind or Jack Frost. As they wakened,
many began to sing for joy. But the clearest, loudest singers of all
lived in the Smiling Pool.

It was a long time before Peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck knew where
they lived. Every night just before going to bed, Johnny Chuck would
sit on his door-step just to listen, and as he listened somehow he
felt better and happier; and he always had pleasant dreams after
listening to the sweet singers of the Smiling Pool. Even after he had
curled himself up for the night deep down in his snug bedroom, he
could hear those sweet voices, and whenever he waked up in the night
he would hear them.

"Spring! Spring! Spring! Spring!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Spring!
So gentle, so loving, so sweet and so fair!
Oh, who can be cross when there's love in the air?
Be happy! Be joyful! And join in our song
And help us to send the glad tidings along!
Spring! Spring! Spring! Spring!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Spring!"

When Johnny Chuck had first heard them, he had looked in all the tree-
tops for the singers, but not one could he see. Then he had thought
that they must be hidden in the bushes; but when he went to look, he