"Shaggy elephants?" tweeted Tweaty.

[owl]; chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle [small birds]; hum [insects, hummingbird]; buzz [flying insects, bugs]; hiss [snakes, geese]; blatter^; ratatat [woodpecker].

He must have omitted the tweet, tweet, with which ordinarily he signalizes his flight.

He must have omitted the tweet, tweet, with which ordinarily he signalizes his flight.

Twitter and tweet Thy carollings Of little things, Of fair and sweet; For it is meet, O robin red!

" "Tweet, tweet."

" "Tweet, tweet."

"But, Tweet," argued Papa Gregg, "what's the use?

"Hope you're not offended because Tweet said we didn't need you to-day.

He curled a finger to it and called, "Tweet!

But at the same time he spends his time running merrily through the orchard trees, even whispering his husky 'weachy-weachy-twee-twee, tweet' to the old queen apple by the study window.

They whistle like this, 'tweet-weettweet-weet!'

One was a bob-tailed Railone was a Snipe with far-back eyes and a finger-beak like a Woodcock'sone was a Spotted Sandpiper that teeters and whistles 'tweet-weet'and the other was a tiny little Sandpiper with a very sad cry.