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 anything in particular , but to see everything that he could . Almost right away he saw some tiny little dark spots on the water . They did n't look like much of anything . They were so small that he had n't noticed them before . One of them was quite close to him , and as Johnny Chuck looked at it , it began to look like a tiny nose , and then -- why , just then , Johnny was very sure that one of those singing voices came right from that very spot ! He was so surprised that he hopped to his feet and excitedly beckoned to Jerry Muskrat . The instant he did that , the voices near him stopped singing , and the little spots on the water disappeared , leaving just the tiniest of little rings , just such tiny little rings as drops of rain falling on the Smiling Pool would make . And when that tiny spot nearest to him that looked like a tiny nose disappeared , Johnny Chuck caught just a glimpse of a little form under the water . `` Why -- why-e-e ! The singers are Grandfather Frog 's children ! '' cried Johnny Chuck . `` No , they 're not , but they are own cousins to them ; they are the grandchildren of old Mr. Tree Toad ! and they are called Hylas ! '' said Jerry Muskrat , laughing and rubbing his hands in great glee . `` I told you that if you used your eyes , you 'd learn to see . '' `` 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 -- XXXXX .
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