sound could he hear.

"Chugarum! It must be me," said Grandfather Frog. "It must be that I am
growing old and deaf. I'll go over and ask Jerry Muskrat."

So Grandfather Frog dove into the water and swam out to the middle of
the Smiling Pool, on his way to Jerry Muskrat's house. It was then that
he first fully realized the truth of what Jerry Muskrat and Little Joe
Otter had told him the day before--that there was something very, very
wrong with the Smiling Pool. He stopped swimming to look around, and it
seemed as if his great goggly eyes would pop right out of his head. Yes,
Sir, it seemed as if those great goggly eyes certainly would pop right
out of Grandfather Frog's head. The Smiling Pool had grown so small that
there wasn't enough of it left to smile!

"Where are you going, Grandfather Frog?" asked a voice over his head.

Grandfather Frog looked up. Looking down on him from over the edge of
the Big Rock was Jerry Muskrat. The edge of the Big Rock was twice as
high above the water as Grandfather Frog had ever seen it before.

"I--I--was going to swim over to your house to see you," replied
Grandfather Frog.

"It's of no use," replied Jerry, "because I'm not there. Besides, you
couldn't swim there, anyway."

"Why not?" demanded Grandfather Frog in great surprise.

"Because it isn't in the water any longer; it's way up on dry land,"
said Jerry Muskrat in the most mournful voice.

"What's that you say?" cried Grandfather Frog, as if he couldn't believe
his own ears.

"It's just as true as that I'm sitting here," replied Jerry sadly.

"Listen, Jerry Muskrat, and tell me truly; is the Laughing Brook
laughing?" cried Grandfather Frog sharply.

"No," replied Jerry, "the Laughing Brook has stopped laughing, and the
Smiling Pool has stopped smiling, and I think the world is upside down."

CHAPTER X: Why The World Seemed Upside Down To Jerry Muskrat

Jerry Muskrat sat on the Big Rock in the Smiling Pool, which smiled
no longer, and held his head in both hands, for his head ached. He had
thought and thought and thought, until it seemed to him that his head
would split; and with all his thinking, he didn't understand things any
more now than he had in the beginning. You see, Jerry Muskrat's little
world was topsy-turvy. Yes, Sir, Jerry's world was upside down! Anyway,
it seemed so to him, and he couldn't understand it at all.

The Smiling Pool, the Laughing Brook, and the Green Meadows are Jerry
Muskrat's