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