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warm once more, and he felt himself 
to be getting perkier and perkier, and 
cheekier and cheekier, every day. And 
then one day he felt so happy that he 
began to sing. Anda very pretty little 
song it was, just like a little chime of 
silvery bells tinkling in the trees. And 
so he rang his chime of bells merrily 
up and down the trees and hedges; and 
one day he met the prettiest little blue- 
tit he hhad ever ‘seen. “At Teactaaiee 
thought she was the prettiest, so of 
course she was ; and she thought he was 
very fine too, and had a very nice voice. 
And so they were married, and began 
to look about for a comfortable house to 
live in. He remembered the old pump 
he had been born in; and though it 
hadn’t been very comfortable, he thought 
it was the right sort of place to live in, 
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