The connection between sound and action appears in _Little Spider's First Web_: The Fly said, "Then I will _buzz_"; the Bee said, "Then I will _hum_"; the Cricket said, "Then I will _chirp_"; the Ant said, "Then I will _run_ to and fro"; the Butterfly said, "Then I will _fly_"; and the Bird said, "Then I will _sing_." The effect is produced here because the words selected are concrete ones which visualize. Repetitive passages in the tales often contribute this effect of sound upon meaning, as we find in _The Three Billy-Goats Gruff_: "Trip, trap; trip, trap! went the bridge as the youngest Billy-Goat Gruff came to cross the bridge." The sound of the words in this entire tale contributes largely to the meaning. The Troll roared and said, "Now I'm coming to gobble you up!" Usually the bits of rhyme interspersed throughout the tales, illustrate this contribution of sound to meaning; as in the _Three Pigs_:-- Then I'll huff, And I'll puff, And I'll blow your house in! Especially is this the case in tales dignified by the cante-fable form; such as Grimm's _Cinderella_:-- Rustle and shake yourself, dear tree, And silver and gold throw down to me! Or in _Little Two-Eyes_:-- Little kid, bleat, I wish to eat! Or in _The Little Lamb and the Little Fish_:-- Ah, my brother, in the wood A Iamb, now I must search for food! The suggestive power of words to convey more than they mean, is produced, not only by the sounds contained in the words themselves, but also largely by the arrangement of the words and by the speech-tunes of the voice in speaking them. Kipling's _Elephant's Child_ is a living example of the suggestive power of words. The "new, fine question" suggests that the Elephant's Child had a habit of asking questions which had not been received as if they were fine. "Wait-a-bit thorn-bush," suggests the Kolokolo Bird sitting alone on the bush in placid quiet. "And _still_ I want to know what the crocodile has for dinner" implies that there had been enough spankings to have killed the curiosity, but contrary to what one would expect, it was living and active. When Kolokolo Bird said with a _mournful_ cry, "Go to the banks of the great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," etc., the implication of _mournful_ is, that there the Elephant's Child would have a sorry time of it. The expression, "dear families," which occurs so often, is full of delightful irony and suggests the vigorous treatment, anything but dear, which had come to the Elephant's Child from them.