The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
away at the firm white flesh until he 
couldn’t hold any more. 
Then the weather grew colder and 
colder, and one day he awoke and found 
that the ground was covered with snow. 
And it took him quite a long time to 
find spiders’ eggs and other things to 
eat, and there were hardly any grubs at 
all; so that if it had not been for the 
bones and fat put out for him in the 
gardens he would have fared badly. As 
it was he had to wait sometimes, because 
there were a lot of other hungry birds, 
and he was such a little chap. Some- 
times a hungry starling would sit on “zs 
fat and gobble away at a great rate, and 
then two or three more would squabble 
and jabber away and fight for it. All 
the time he Avew it was 4zs fat, and it 
was really most greedy and inconsiderate 
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