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"That year Jennie and I had a lovely lot of young ones, quite early in June," said Chummy. "One day we were out getting brown-tail moths, for I assure you we sparrows do eat lots of insect pests. We were just hurrying back to our hole in the wall with our beaks full, when a friendly warbler who was flying by said, ‘Wee-chee chee, chee, hurry, hurry, Squirrie is coming out of your hole licking red paws.'
"We dropped our loads and flew madly through the air."