or sleep on the way then," said he, "for I shall keep right on going
all the time. I've found that is the only way to get anywhere."

"Let us all go down together" said Grandfather Frog. "We can help
each other over the bad places."

Jerry Muskrat laughed until he had to hold his sides at the very
thought of Grandfather Frog or Spotty the Turtle being able to help
him, but he is very good-natured, and so he agreed that they should
all go down together. Paddy the Beaver said that he would go, too,
so off the four started, Jerry Muskrat and Paddy the Beaver swimming
side by side, and behind them Grandfather Frog and Spotty the
Turtle.

Now Spotty the Turtle is a very slow traveler on land, but in the
water Spotty is not so slow. In fact, it was not long before
Grandfather Frog found that he was the one who could not keep up.
You see, while he is a great diver and can swim fast for a short
distance, he is soon tired out. Pretty soon he was puffing and
blowing and dropping farther and farther behind. By and by, Spotty
the Turtle looked back. There was Grandfather Frog just tumbling
head first over a little waterfall. He came up choking and gasping
and kicking his long legs very feebly. Spotty climbed out on a rock
and waited. He helped Grandfather Frog out beside him, and when
Grandfather Frog had once more gotten his breath, what do you think
Spotty did? Why, he took Grandfather Frog right on his back and
started on again.

Now Jerry Muskrat and Paddy the Beaver, being great swimmers, were
soon out of sight. All at once Jerry remembered that they had agreed