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But the ordinary observer seldom attains farther than to comprehend some of the cries of anxiety and fear around him, often so unlike the accustomed carol of the bird, as the mew of the Cat-Bird, the lamb-like bleating of the Veery and his impatient yeoick, the chaip of the Meadow-Lark, the towyee of the Chewink, the petulant psit and tsee of the Red-Winged Blackbird, and the hoarse cooing of the Bobolink.
But they were still so tightly tucked up in their green wraps that one could hardly see them. They looked like green buds that might turn into anything. "It's too early," they whispered. "It's a shame for the starling to call us. There's no one left in the world that one can trust." Then the swallow came: "Tsee! Tsee!"he whistled and darted through the air on his long, pointed wings.
The loud, unclassifiable voice above immediately answered: "Gent! Gent-gent-gent-en! t-chee, t-chee! Gents, tss-tss-tss! Ha! ha! Gentlemen!" "May I come up?" Vesta cried. "Come, p-chee! Come chee! come tsee! See me! see me! see me! Come p-chee! come see! come see me!"
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