Now it only sounds like chirping, screeching, and whistling, and sometimes like music without words.
" At length the father came to the youngest son: "Thou, my dear chirping nestling, wert always the silliest and weakest;stay with me, the world has many rough, wicked birds which havecrooked beaks and long claws, and lie in wait for poor little birdsand swallow them.
While she was sitting there, she thought of the egg which the moon had given her, she opened it, and there came out a clucking hen with twelve chickens all of gold, and they ran about chirping, and crept again under the old hen's wings, nothing more beautiful was ever seen in the world.
" "Stop your chirping!
" "That may be all very well," said another sparrow, who had been hopping about for a long time, chirping, but not saying anything of consequence, "but I have found a few comforts here in town which, I'm afraid, I should miss out in the country.
A bird flew by me, chirping and singing.
