The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
big and strong, and has to stop at the 
bottom all the time. Tommy soon 
found this out, and made up his mind 
very early that he would be at the top 
and sit on the rest and get as much food 
as he could. That is what made him 
grow up so cheeky, and so I can’t 
help thinking it was all the fault of 
the pump. Because if there had been 
more room, there would have been no 
reason for his always sticking up for 
number one, and thinking of himself 
so much. 
At last one day there was simply not 
room in the pump to hold them, and they 
all scrambled and fluttered until they 
came out through the mouth—quite a 
little stream of tits. And then there was 
such a commotion, and sucha flutteration 
as you never saw. The poor parents 
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