Ho , ho , ho ! '' IV JOHNNY CHUCK FINDS OUT WHO THE SWEET SINGERS ARE Johnny Chuck could n't keep away from the Smiling Pool . No , Sir , Johnny Chuck could n't keep away from the Smiling Pool . Ever since he and Peter Rabbit had gone over there looking for the sweet singers , who every night and part of the day told all who would listen how glad they were that Mistress Spring had come to the Green Meadows and the Green Forest , Johnny Chuck had had something on his mind . And this is why he could n't keep away from the Smiling Pool . You see it was this way : Johnny and Peter had thought that of course the sweet singers were birds . They had n't dreamed of anything else . So of course they went looking for birds . When they reached the Smiling Pool , the voices came right out of the water . Johnny knew that some birds , like many of the cousins of Mrs. Quack , can stay under water a long time , and so he did n't know but some other birds might . Jerry Muskrat was always watching for Johnny , whenever he came to the Smiling Pool , and his eyes would twinkle as he would gravely say : `` Hello , Johnny Chuck ! Have you seen the birds sing under water yet ? '' Johnny would smile good-naturedly and reply : `` Not yet , Jerry Muskrat . Wo n't you point them out to me ? '' Then Jerry would reply : `` Two eyes you have , bright as can be ; Perhaps some day you 'll learn to see . '' Then Johnny Chuck would sit as still as ever he knew how , and watch and watch the Smiling Pool , but not a bird did he see in the water , though the singers were still there . One day a sudden thought popped into his head . Perhaps those singers were not birds at all ! Why had n't he thought of that before ? Perhaps it was because he was looking so hard for birds that he had n't seen anything else .
Johnny began to look , not for XXXXX in particular , but to see everything that he could .
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