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Updated: June 5, 2025
But now they jumped in, and sat down with the farmer on his seat, which was a board laid across from one side of the cart to the other. As soon as they were seated, the farmer began. The Farmer’s Story. “The story I was going to tell you, boys, is an old fable about making enemies. It is called ‘The Bear and the Tomtit.’ ” “What is a tomtit?” said Rollo.
And inside of me I was singing as small as a tomtit. "But there's nothing like a striking appearance to help a man over a difficulty, I've found that before and since. People like ourselves, who're up to diving dresses by the time we're seven, can scarcely imagine the effect of one on a simple-minded savage.
"He might jump out of the carriage and destroy himself," he said to Mr. Mason. "If he had any of the feelings of an Englishman within his breast," said Mason, "he would be anxious to give assistance towards the punishment of such a criminal as that." "He has only the feelings of a tomtit," said Dockwrath.
“It is a kind of a bird, a very little bird; but he sings pleasantly. Well, one pleasant summer’s day, a wolf and a bear were taking a walk together in a lonely wood. They heard something singing. “ ‘Brother,’ said the bear, ‘that is good singing: what sort of a bird do you think that may be?’ “ ‘That’s a tomtit,’ said the wolf.
I was like one bewitched, and thought these very birds were discussing us. The greenfinch said: "Old Mouillard, look! Here's Princess Goldenlocks at your garden gate." The tomtit said: "Look out, old man, or she'll outwit you." The blackbird said: "I have heard of her from my grandfather, who lived in the Champs Elysees. She was much admired there."
A throstle or a whippoorwill is raising a family in the gutter spout over the back kitchen. I go into the bathroom to shave and Titania whispers sharply, "You mustn't shave in there. There's a tomtit nesting in the shutter hinge and the light from your shaving mirror will make the poor little birds crosseyed when they're hatched."
I do hate to see a tall, stout fellow so sniveling like a girl of fourteen over a dead tomtit. Put down thy bow, man! We mean thee no harm." But Will Scarlet, seeing how the stranger, who had a young and boyish look, was stung by the words that Stutely had spoken, came to him and put his hand upon the youth's shoulder. "Nay, thou art in trouble, poor boy!" said he kindly.
It is the warning call of the tomtit or chickadee, which we soon espy tilting about on his trapeze of twigs in the trees or bushes.
Ah, yes! the tomtit is the embodiment and poetry of nimbleness. But he is more than a mere feathered gentleman; he is an extremely useful citizen. Prof. E. D. Sanderson published a valuable article in "The Auk" for April 1898, in which he proved that this bird serves a most useful purpose as an insecticide.
"Oh! the wretch!" a cuckoo seemed to say; "what does he mean by coming here, showing us his ugly face?" "Oh! the horror," cried a coquette of a tomtit, holding up her little claw. "Hélas! hélas! our poor trees, our beautiful leaves, and our lovely greensward see how he is cutting away Oh! the wicked man! the destructive rascal!" they all piped in chorus.
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