The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
But at last the winter passed. It 
seems sometimes that the cold winter- 
time is very, very long, and will never 
pass away. But it always does, if you 
Oulyehave patience, In fact, it does 
whether you have patience or not, only 
without the patience the winter seems 
twice as long as it would otherwise. 
Then the grubs began to be plentiful, 
and the hedges to be covered with 
a thin foliage of tender green leaves, 
slowly unrolling and getting thicker and 
bigger, and the little insects began to 
come out of the eggs—those at least that 
had not been found out by those sharp 
eyes of his and other birds which had 
been hunting up and down for them. 
Jenny Wren and Peggy Wagtail, for 
instance, were as clever at finding them 
as he was. And the sun began to be 
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