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and taught them to feed themselves, and 
to fly about and to take care of them- 
selves generally, so they consider they 
have done all they can for them, and 
don’t bother their heads any more over 
them. But the bottle-tits don’t do this. 
They only rear one brood throughout 
the year—true, it is a big enough brood 
—and they stick to one another all 
through the summer, and through the 
long hard winter, until the spring comes 
once again ; and then they all separate, 
and choose their wives, and all start 
housekeeping on their own account in 
just the same way as their parents did. 
And a very pleasant sight it is to see 
this happy family on their travels. Per- 
haps you first hear a shrill ‘zi-zi,’ and 
notice a little purplish grey ball of 
feathers with a long tail stuck on to it 
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