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 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 XXXXX 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 !
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