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Get out wi' ye! Cruel! Yow don't like piewipe pie!" "I did, and roast piewipe too," cried Dick; "but I don't think I shall ever eat any again."
"But what did that bud do, lad? If it was a piewipe, go and kill hundreds o' worms, and snails, and young frogs; if it was a heron, spear fish and pick the wriggling young eels out of the mud. No, lad, it wean't do; buds is the cruellest things there is, pretty as they are all except them as only eats seeds.
"But then you are not a piewipe, only a goose," said Dick. "Hist!" whispered Dave, and placing his fingers to his mouth he sent out over the grey water so exact an imitation of the green plover's cry that Dick looked at him in wonder, for this was something entirely new. Pee-eugh, pee-eugh, pee-eugh!
"That ought to bring them, lads," said Dave, with his eyes twinkling beneath his fox-skin cap, after beating a few reeds aside so that they could have a good view of where the unfortunate peewits fluttered at the pegs. "But suppose they don't come?" said Tom. "I know if I was a piewipe I wouldn't be cheated by a few dummies and some pegged-down birds."
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