It is just those sentimentalists who have done such infinite harm in this matter of thepeewit.
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Admittedly that is a corruption ofpeewit, or perhapspeewitis a corruption of peesweep.
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Instead of the noise of traffic, the pupil may hear the call of the curlew andpeewitfrom outside the window.
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To add the names green plover andpeewitto that of lapwing is not sufficient.
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I earnestly hope that under the new system thepeewit, that most beautiful and useful bird, will once more enlarge its numbers.
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Is it not the fact that within the last few years this trade inpeewitand lapwing eggs has immensely increased?
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But people are more important than peewits.
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There is a lengthy instrumental introduction to the first song, in which the cry of the curlew is represented by the cor anglais and thepeewitby the flute.
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