A bird known as the whaup is, in fact, the curlew, a long-beaked bird which you can find online in pictures. |
As he ran he made ridiculous efforts to cry like a whaup in the hope of summoning the Die-Hards. |
The new sense of responsibility that had come to the whaup determined him to return at once to Glasgow, and resume his studies. |
And the whaup thought that, if she would only wait two years he would work to such purpose as to be able to ask her to marry him. |
From that moment the whaup grew more serious, and ceased his boyish tricks. |
Indeed, not so much as a whaup came near me on that great, wide, dappled hill. |