The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
escape. After that he was always very 
careful to examine carefully anything 
lying about. 
When the summer had gone there 
were ever so many seeds on the different 
plants in the fields and gardens that he 
found were very good; and just then 
insects were getting fewer and fewer, 
and so he was very glad of a change. 
The great yellow sunflowers in the 
gardens had beautiful seeds, big and 
nice to taste, just like nuts. He and 
his cousins, the marsh-tits and the coal- 
tits, and his big uncle the great tit, 
would fly from garden to garden and 
pick out these big fat seeds from the 
yellow flowers, which looked like great 
golden suns, and, cracking the husks by 
hammering them with their sharp beaks, 
would then eat the kernels--and very 
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