in the water at all. Anybody who wanted to could get into it.
There was the doorway plainly to be seen. Worse still, there was
the secret entrance to the long tunnel leading to his castle under
the roots of the Big Hickory-tree. That had been Jerry's most
secret secret, and now there it was for all the world to see.
And there were all the wonderful caves and holes and hiding-places
under the bank which had been known only to Jerry Muskrat and Billy
Mink and Little Joe Otter, because the openings had always been
under water. Now anybody could find them, for they were plainly to
be seen. And where had always been smiling, dimpling water, Jerry
saw only mud. It was mud, mud, mud everywhere! The bulrushes,
which had always grown with their feet in the water, now had them
only in mud, and that was fast drying up. The lily-pads lay half
curled up at the ends of their long stems, stretched out on the mud,
and looked very, very sick. Jerry turned towards the Laughing
Brook. There was just a little, teeny, weeny stream of water
trickling down the middle of it, with here and there a tiny pool in
which frightened trout and minnows were crowded. All the secrets of
the Laughing Brook were exposed, just as were the secrets of the
Smiling Pool. Jerry knew that if he wanted to find Billy Mink's
hiding-places, all he need do would be to walk up the Laughing Brook
and look.

"Yes, Sir, the world has turned upside down," said Jerry in a
mournful voice.

"I believe it has," replied Grandfather Frog, looking up from the
little pool of water left at the foot of the Big Rock.

"I know it has!" cried Jerry. "I wonder if it will ever turn upside