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to fit her small body ; it is big enough, \ 
and bold enough, and shrill enough for a SX\, 
bird ten times her size. So loud and & 
powerful it is, in truth, that, heard 
suddenly and near at hand, it will quite 
make you jump; and if you don’t know 
what has caused it, you look round 
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expecting to see something quite large. 
Instead of that, it is only a tiny brown 
body creeping about in the hedge, 
looking more like a mouse than anything 
else. And while you are wondering if 
this tiny thing can possibly make such 
a big noise, it suddenly does it again to 
show you that it can. ‘Churr-r-r,’ like 
a watchman’s rattle or a scratchback that 
you hear at the fair. It is a cheery little 
body ; and on the coldest day, when it is 
blowing hard, or freezing enough to nip 
the life out of much stronger and bigger 
