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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Tu-whit, tu-whoo." Oh, bother you. You ought to be a Daily Mail placard. No doubt the owl is quite happy in his way. Louis XV. expressed the owlish philosophy when he said, "Let us amuse ourselves by making ourselves miserable." I have no doubt the wretched creature did amuse himself after his fashion. I have always thought that, secretly, Mrs. Gummidge had a roaring time.
Then with a shrill "Tu-whit! tu-whoo!" it vanished into the forest. When the princess did not return to the palace, and all search after her proved utterly vain, the poor old king fell into a state of the deepest melancholy, and spent most of his time in the summer-house, bewailing the mysterious loss of his only child. One day, many months afterwards, he wandered into the forest.
"Not just like that, sir," answered Nick, not knowing what to make of his companion's strange new mood; "but I know Master Will Shakspere's 'Then nightly sings the staring owl, tu-who, tu-whit, tu-who! and 'The ousel-cock so black of hue, with orange-tawny bill, and then, too, I know the throstle's song that goes with it."
"Don't we tree-toad her within an inch of her life, though, when we come home in the wagons at night? I shouldn't think she could stand that long. I guess she wants all her beauty-sleep. And Kate Arnall can tu-whit, tu-whoo! equal to Tennyson himself, or any great white American owl." "Yes, but what do you think?
Not in the music, Artie; they can't fail to catch that; it rings in one's head like the song of a hedge warbler tirree, tirree, lu-lu-lu, la-la, tirree, tu-whit, tu-whoo, tra-la-la but in the words and the action. I'm half afraid that'll be over their heads, even in the gallery. What do you think you'll finally call it? 'I'm hesitating, Daddy, between "Evolution" and "The Primate of Fiji."
"Tu-whit, tu-whoo ... Tu-whit, tu-whoo ... Tu-whit, tu-whoo...." A cheerless fellow. Some people find him an intolerable companion. I was talking at dinner in London a few nights ago to a woman who has a house in Sussex, and I found that she had not been there for some time. "I used to find the owl endurable," said she, "but since the war I have found him unbearable.
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