Crossword-Solution: WIDDLE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They could not make these out at first, but as they became louder our friends thought they heard a sort of music like that made by a wheezy hand-organ; the music fell upon their ears in this way: Tiddle-widdle-iddle oom pom-pom! Oom, pom-pom! oom, pom-pom! Tiddle-tiddle-tiddle oom pom-pom! Oom, pom-pom--pah! "What is it, a band or a mouth-organ?" asked Dorothy.

Tiddle-widdle-iddle, oom pom-pom, Oom pom-pom; oom pom-pom! came the music to their ears, more distinctly as they drew nearer the house.

They came up and stood in a row, staring at him, and he stared back while the queer sounds came from him as before: Tiddle-iddle-iddle, oom pom-pom, Oom, pom-pom; oom pom-pom! Tiddle-widdle-iddle, oom pom-pom, Oom, pom-pom--pah! "Why, he's a reg'lar musicker!" said Button-Bright.

Hearing this, the fat man sat up a little stiffer than before, as if he had received a compliment, and still came the sounds: Tiddle-widdle-iddle, oom pom-pom, Oom pom-pom, oom-- "Stop it!" cried the shaggy man, earnestly.

They had to climb a hill, and until they got to the top they could not escape the musicker's monotonous piping: Oom, pom-pom; oom, pom-pom; Tiddle-iddle-widdle, oom, pom-pom; Oom, pom-pom--pah! As they passed the brow of the hill, however, and descended on the other side, the sounds gradually died away, whereat they all felt much relieved.