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flowers to one side and left the gay robber a clear vertical 

 perch ? 



My little friend took a considerable time over his breakfast. 

 You can't conscientiously rob a hundred flowers of all their 

 honey on both sides just in a couple of minutes. But I was so 

 grateful to him for enlarging my knowledge and for bringing 

 his loveliness so near to my eyes, that by no movement did I 

 spoil his meal with any nervous tremor. If he had known how 

 I wanted to stretch my limbs in the middle of it, he would 

 have been grateful too. 



