|PETER RABBIT sat on the edge of the Smiling Pool and stared at the
place where Grandfather Frog had disappeared with a great splash. He
watched the tiny waves spread out in rings that grew bigger and bigger
and then finally disappeared too. Now what did Grandfather Frog mean
when he said: "I'll see you in the spring, Peter Rabbit?" Johnny Chuck
had said that very same thing as he had gone down the long hall of his
snug house, yet it would be a long, long time before spring, for it was
not winter yet. Where did they expect to be all winter, and what did
they expect to do? The more Peter puzzled over it, the less he could
understand it.
"My head is whirling round and round,
So many funny things I've found;
Folks say it grows too cold to stay,
Yet do not seem to go away.