McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

Lesson Xi.

twit-twee bough (bow) twit-twit top'most lock

spray mate close'ly ros'y an'swer (an'ser)

WHAT A BIRD TAUGHT.

1. Why do you come to my apple tree, Little bird so gray? Twit-twit, twit-twit, twit-twit-twee! That was all he would say.

2. Why do you lock your rosy feet So closely round the spray? Twit-twit, twit-twit, twit-tweet! That was all he would say.

3. Why on the topmost bough do you get, Little bird so gray? Twit-twit-twee! twit-twit-twit! That was all he would say.

4. Where is your mate? come, answer me, Little bird so gray. Twit-twit-twit! twit-twit-twee! That was all he would say. Alice Cary.