Down by the pool a frog croaked now and then; from a distance came the plaintive, often repeated cry of a solitary owlet; the night breeze sighed through the long grass and the low shrubbery.
"Whosoever Shall Offend"
F. Marion Crawford
And the good Nokomis answered: "That is but the owl and owlet, Talking in their native language, Talking, scolding at each other."
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The she-fox whelps upon its floor; The owlet roosts above its door; And where the musty mosses run, The freckled snake basks in the sun.
"Kentucky Poems"
Madison J. Cawein Commentator: Edmund Gosse