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"'Hollo there! that's our corn, they cried; 'you mustn't steal it. Of course you may have a few grains in the depth of winter to keep you from starving; but remember, when spring comes again, this sort of thing must stop, and you must go away and never come here any more. "'Piep, said the mice, and vanished.
"Piep! piep!" it cried, and in all the eggs there were little creatures that stuck out their heads. "Quack! quack!" they said; and they all came quacking out as fast as they could, looking all round them under the green leaves; and the mother let them look as much as they chose, for green is good for the eye.
Yes, that's a turkey's egg. Let it lie there, and teach the other children to swim." "I think I will sit on it a little longer," said the Duck. "I've sat so long now that I can sit a few days more." "Just as you please," said the old Duck; and she went away. At last the great egg burst. "Piep! piep!" said the little one, and crept forth. It was very large and very ugly. The Duck looked at it.
In one of them the long-stalked cornflower was growing; in another, the yellow mustard-seed, as if the nest were only there for its protection and comfort; and the sparrows were flying up into the storks' nests. "Piep! where has the master gone? I suppose he can't bear it when the wind blows, and that therefore he has left the country. I wish him a pleasant journey!"
It froze so hard that the snow creaked, and the upper rind of snow might well have grown hard enough to bear the sparrows in the morning dawn. These little birds hopped up and down where the sweeping had been done; but they found very little food, and were not a little cold. "Piep!" said one of them to another; "they call this a new year, and it is worse than the last!
"Piep!" he cried; "you trod very hard upon me, madam." "Well, why do you lie in my way?" the duck retorted. "You must not be so touchy. I have nerves of my own, but yet I never called out 'Piep! "Don't be angry," said the little bird "the 'piep' came out of my beak unawares." The Portuguese did not listen to him, but began eating as fast as she could, and made a good meal.
See, here is one of their things; the white traders call it a paip, or piep." As he spoke he opened the fire-bag which Adolay had given him and took out of it the clay pipe, tobacco, and materials for producing fire.
All of a sudden they heard a mysterious 'Piep. 'Hollo! said one, 'what's that? no one can be hatching out at this time of the year it's impossible; yet surely something said "Piep" down there in the corner. "Just then another 'Piep' was heard. "'I don't think it sounds quite like a young chicken, replied the other hen.
First comes the band of sparrows: they pipe at every trifle in the streets and lanes, in the nests and the houses; they have stories to tell about the front buildings and the back buildings. "We know the buried town," they say; "everything living in it is piep! piep! piep!" The black ravens and crows flew on over the white snow. "Grub, grub!" they cried.
It was pretty out there in the wood, when the snow lay thick and the hare sprang past; yes, even when he jumped over me; but then I did not like it. It is terribly lonely up here!" "Piep! Piep!" said a little Mouse, and crept forward, and then came another little one. They smelt at the Fir Tree, and then slipped among the branches.
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