nk!" he flapped away to the north.
And all the other beautiful wild ducks followed calling,
"Quonk-quonk-quonk!" So the little summer boy never knew the wild duck!

It is too bad that the fish and the frog are scared away when the summer
boy goes in bathing. But it is only for a little while anyway. For the
little summer boy's mother doesn't let him play in the lake all day as
does the mother of the slippery shiny fish and the mother of the spotted
green frog. She has called him now, and he calls back, "One more time!"
for no one loves the little lake as much as the little boy in the red
bathing suit. He has climbed up on the rock. The water is running down
him, for he is as wet as a baby seal. Now he puts out his hands, like
this, and he calls out, "This time I'm going to take a headwards dive!"

In the lake they play,
The spotted green frog
And the slippery shiny fish.
They frisk and they whisk,
And they dip and they flip.
And the water it glimmers,
It ripples and twinkles
When the frog and the fishes play.

In the lake they play,
The beautiful duck
And the rackety summer boy.
When the wild duck swims
The water it skims.
But the boy with a shout
He plumps in, he jumps out.
And the little lake shakes with his play.

HOW THE SINGING WATER
GOT TO THE TUB

In this story I have tried to make the refrains carry the essential
points in the content. I have tried, however, to subordinate the
information to the pattern. This story came in response to direct
questions during baths.

HOW THE SINGING WATER GOT TO THE TUB

Once there was a little singing stream of water. It sang whatever it
did. And it did many things from the time it bubbled up in the far-away
hills to the time it splashed into the dirty little boy's tub. It began
as a little spring of water. Then the water was as cool as cool could be
for it came up from the deep cool earth all hidden away from the sun. It
came up into a little hollow scooped out of the earth and in the hollow
were little pebbles. Right up through the pebbles, bubbling and gurgling
it came. And what do you suppose the water did when the little hollow
was all full? It did just what water always does, it tried to find a way
to run down hill! One side of the little hollow was lower than the
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