`` My , but they 've got voices bigger than they are ! '' said Johnny Chuck , as he started home across the Green Meadows . `` I 'm glad I know who the singers of the Smiling Pool are , and I must n't forget their name -- Hylas . What a funny name ! '' But Farmer Brown 's boy , listening to their song that evening , did n't call them Hylas . He said : `` Hear the peepers ! Spring is surely here . '' V JOHNNY CHUCK BECOMES DISSATISFIED Johnny Chuck was unhappy . Here it was the glad springtime , when everybody is supposed to be the very happiest , and Johnny Chuck was unhappy . Why was he unhappy ? Well , he hardly knew himself . He had slept comfortably all the long winter . He had awakened very , very hungry , but now he had plenty to eat . All about him the birds were singing or busily at work building new homes . And still Johnny Chuck felt unhappy . It was dreadful to feel this way and not have any good reason for it . One bright morning Johnny Chuck sat on his door-step watching Drummer the Woodpecker building a new home in the old apple-tree . Drummer 's red head flew back and forth , back and forth , and his sharp bill cut out tiny bits of wood . It was slow work ; it was hard work . But Drummer seemed happy , very happy indeed .
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