The Tale of Big Peepers the Owl

But he was really a barred owl, for he had bars of white across his feathers.

If you had happened to catch Big Peepers the Owl resting among the thick hemlocks near the foot of Blue Mountain, where he lived, you would have thought that he looked strangely like a human being. He had no "horns," or ear-tufts, such as some of the other owls wore; and his great pale face, with its black eyes, made him seem very wise and solemn.