Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Every Bird and Beast Makes A Noise That’s All Its Own. [ARTICLE]

Every Bird and Beast Makes A Noise That’s All Its Own.

If a complete list could be made of the distinctive names by which the noises produced by birds and beasts are called, it would be founfljhat there are few duplicates. We may judge this even by the most common, says an exchange. The horse neighs, the sheep bleats, the cow lows, the pig grunts and squeals, the turkey gobbles, the hen cackles, the cock crows, the goose hisses, the duck quacks, the cat mews, •the dog barks, the wolf howls, the lion roars, the bull bellows, the sparrow chirps, the pigeon coos, the frog croaks, the rook caws, the< monkey chatters, the elephant trumpets, the camel grunts, the stag calls, the rabbit ■creams—only when wounded, the donkey brays, the bee hums, the fly buzzes, the grasshopper chirrups, the swallow twitters, the chick peeps, the hound bays and the owl hoots.- ® Perhaps the best word for the sound a cricket makes is used by Tennyson.

“Not a cricket chirr’d,” he writes in “In Memoriam,” although the word would fit the grasshopper better perhaps. Tennyson prided himself on his exact word for the noises made by bird and beast. Thus he speaks of the “moan of doves,” the robin’s “pipe,” the woodpecker’s “laugh,” the curlew’s “whistle,” the jay’s “scritch,” the parrot’s “scream,” the peacock’s “squall,” the ocean-fowl’s “shriek,” and the eagle’s “yelp.”