The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
and comfortable. And in this nest Mrs. 
Tommy laid nine little round pinky eggs, 
all freckled with red spots, and sat on 
them for days and days, until one day 
one by one the eggs cracked open, and 
there appeared a nestful of funny little 
objects, with no feathers, and great black 
eyes, and beaks that always seemed to 
be open for food, and small fat round 
stomachs that always seemed to be empty. 
And as there were nine of these open 
beaks, and nine little hungry stomachs 
to be satisfied, Tommy and his wife 
had to bustle round and work hard 
all day long looking for grubs and little 
caterpillars to feed them with as well as 
for themselves. They worked harder 
than they had ever done in their lives, 
and their smart feathers began to look 
quite worn and ragged and frayed. 
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