The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
tasty they were. In one or two gardens 
he knew the people used to hang up 
bones, or a great round cocoa-nut, or a 
piece of fat, just because they liked to 
see his antics. At first he thought these 
were traps or something of that sort, and 
wouldn’t go near them for a day or two, 
though he would come and look every 
now and then, to see if they were still 
there. And then at last one day he 
went and gave a peck and flew away in 
a great hurry, in case of something bad 
happening. But nothing happened, and 
so he went again and again, and would 
hang head-downwards on a bone at the 
end of a long string; and while swing- 
ing round and round like a pendulum 
he would pick out all the meaty bits, 
until the bone was quite bare and clean, 
or creep inside the cocoa-nut and peg 
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