Description: Presents the adventures of Mother Eel, the Playful Muskrat, the Snappy Snapping Turtle, and the other Pond People. These stories are full of humor, yet cleverly convey information about the frogs, minnows, and other pond residents and often suggest a moral in a delicate manner which no child could resist.

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1. The Biggest Frog Awakens
2. The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes 
3. The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should
4. The Stickleback Father 
5. The Careless Caddis Worm 
6. The Tadpole Who Wanted To Be Grown-Up 
7. The Runaway Water Spiders 
8. The Slow Little Mud Turtle 
9. The Dragon-Fly Children and the Snapping Turtle 

10. The Snappy Snapping Turtle
11. The Clever Water-Adder 
12. The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad 
13. The Oldest Dragon-Fly Nymph 
14. The Eels' Moving Night 
15. The Crayfish Mother 
16. Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel 
17. The Lucky Mink 
18. The Playful Muskrats