The Adventures of Tommy Titmouse 
Luckily for them they hadn't to go 
very far, for the orchard was full of old 
twisted apple-trees, ever so old. The. 
boughs were twisted and the trunks 
were bent over at all sorts of angles, and 
they were covered with moss and lichen. 
And in the cracks of the bark, and 
under the moss and the lichen, were lots 
of insects, and they poked and _ pried 
about all day long and pecked them out. 
And the trees were covered with the 
loveliest pink blossoms ; and even in the 
blossoms, and in the young leaves and 
in the little hard knobs that followed 
the blossoms, were hidden away lots 
more grubs. And they routed them out 
and devoured them as fast as they could. 
They didn’t know that these little green 
knobs would ever turn into apples. 
But the man who owned the orchard 
