The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
and they hunted up and down every- 
where for a nice pump to let. But they 
couldn't find one. They were either 
already occupied, or else, while they 
were looking at one, and wondering if it 
was dry, somebody would come and 
work the handle up and down until the 
water would pour out of the hole they 
had considered to be the front door. 
That wouldn’t do at all, Then Mrs. 
Tommy remembered that she and all 
her brothers and sisters had been born 
inside a lamp-post ; and she knew, too, 
that sometimes their friends and relations 
lived in holes in trees. So they had 
another look round, and at last settled 
on such a cosy hole in an old mossy 
apple-tree in an orchard. Into this they 
carried little bits of soft moss and hairs 
and feathers, and made it quite warm 
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