THE SCREECH-OWL [Enthusiastically.]

] AN OWL [Hurriedly.]

The crows had gone to roost; and had it not been for some too-hoos of the jolly owl, sounding his horn as he rejoiced that the hated sun had gone to annoy other owls in the west, the silence would have been complete.

THE SCREECH-OWL [Oratorically.]

He saw Owl overboard, holding his head above the waves.

A great bird swooped out of the branches above him, startling him, and he cried out: 'An owlonly an owl!'

Secretly an owl with the buoyancy of a humming-bird?