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slate-colored breast. ‘‘ Ask Mrs. Mocker: she knows 
everybody.” 
So they called to Mrs. Mocker. “Do you know that 
new family up in the great high house’ They must 
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be fine people to move into such a handsome place. 
The Oriole family have rented that house for years.” 
“Oh, I know them,” Mrs. Mocker said; “they are 
Mr. and Mrs. Bush-tit from over in the mountains. 
They never lived in our city before. They belong to 
the great Tit family, and their name means a Tit-in-a- 
bush.”” Then Mrs. Mocker looked very knowing and 
