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Tom-tit told his wife that he could not understand it, but thought that when they were mated all they would have to do would be to fly about the garden, hopping from twig to twig, and picking all the little buds through the long sunshiny days, and sleeping at night upon some high, safe bough, rolled up like little balls of feathers.
Every day he would go out with his little bow, shooting at the small birds. The first bird he killed was a tom-tit. His sister was highly pleased when he took it to her. She carefully prepared and stuffed it, and put it away for him. The next day he killed a red squirrel. His sister preserved this, too. The third day he killed a partridge, and this they had for their evening meal.
I had not noticed the bird before. "Yes; had him for years." Instantly the absurdity of the companionship broke upon me. What possible comfort, I thought, could a man like the captain take in so tiny a creature? It was the lion and the mouse over again the eagle and the tom-tit the bear and the rabbit. He must have noticed my surprise and amusement, for he added with a smile: "Must have something.
In this calm retreat they erected a rough-and-ready wall of birch-bark and branches, which enclosed them on all sides except one, where a glorious fire was kindled a fire that would have roasted anything from a tom-tit to an ox, and the roaring flames of which had to be occasionally subdued, lest they should roast the whole encampment.
She didn't a like to leave her jack in a bandbox behind her; and so missee forsooth forgot her tom-tit, and master my jerry whissle an please you galloped after with it. And then with a whoop he must amble to Lunnun; and then with a halloo he must caper to France! She'll deposit the rhino; yet Nicodemus has a no notion of a what she'd be at!
Did not I fly to my "kind Mamma" as soon as I had read this note, and when she had consented that I should go to see that dear old Aunt of mine in London, did not I half smother her with kisses. I thought the first of May would never come, but it did; and Tom-tit was sent to London with me by the railway to take care of me.
"I say," said Philip, "look at that tom-tit; it has a nest somewhere close by, I know." This remark set six eyes searching about to discover the place of the little tom-tit's home. Fred began looking up in the tree and amidst the laurel bushes parting the boughs, and peering amidst the great green leaves. "What are you looking for?" said Harry at last. "The tom-tit's nest," said Fred.
It is not well written in general, but there are particular parts admirable from truth of description and force of feeling. Your little goddaughter Sophy is one of the most engaging little creatures I ever saw, and knows almost all the birds and beasts in Bewick from the tom-tit to the hip-po-pot-a-mus, and names them in a sweet little droll voice. To HENRY EDGEWORTH, AT EDINBURGH.
Tom-tit brings me letters from the post-boy much oftener than before, and were it not for them, I do not think I could bear my existence. This is the substance of some letters I have lately received from my dear friend, Julia Linnet. She is a warm-hearted little thing, easily led away by her enthusiasm.
In this city, the delicate Philadelphia Gazette comes magnanimously to the aid of Henry Clay, "A tom-tit twittering on an eagle's back."
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