# What a Bird Taught

- Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Poems, Animals
- Topics: bird, twit-twit, gray, little, twit-twit-twee, come
- Length: 87 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14668>
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WHAT A BIRD TAUGHT.

- 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.
- Why do you lock your rosy feet  
  So closely round the spray?  
  Twit-twit, twit-twit, twit-tweet!  
  That was all he would say.
- Why on the topmost bough do you get,  
  Little bird so gray?  
  Twit-twit-twee! twit-twit-twit!  
  That was all he would say.
- 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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## Picture credits

- illustrator not named in this edition, Public domain (<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14668>)