McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

by William Holmes McGuffey

LESSON XI.

WHAT A BIRD TAUGHT.

1. Why do you come to my apple tree,
   Little bird so gray?
   Twit-twit, twit-twit, twit-twit-twee!
   That was all he would say.
2. Why do you lock your rosy feet
   So closely round the spray?
   Twit-twit, twit-twit, twit-tweet!
   That was all he would say.
3. Why on the topmost bough do you get,
   Little bird so gray?
   Twit-twit-twee! twit-twit-twit!
   That was all he would say.
4. Where is your mate? come, answer me,
   Little bird so gray.
   Twit-twit-twit! twit-twit-twee!
   That was all he would say.

Alice Cary.

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