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    The Cheerful Cricket and Others
    The Cheerful Cricket and Others
    The Cheerful Cricket and Others
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    The Cheerful Cricket and Others

    By Jeannette Augustus Marks

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Title: The Cheerful Cricket and Others

      Author: Jeannette Marks

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      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE CHEERFUL CRICKET AND OTHERS ***

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      THE CHEERFUL CRICKET AND OTHERS

      JEANNETTE MARKS

      ILLUSTRATED BY EDITH BROWN

      TO

      MY NEPHEW

      HENRY DOUGLAS BACON

      AND TO OTHER CHILDREN AS GOOD AND BAD

      BIG OR LITTLE

      THESE STORIES AND TALES ARE INSCRIBED

      CONTENTS

      THE CHEERFUL CRICKET

      THE SLOTHFUL TOAD

      THE SULLEN CATERPILLAR

      THE GREEN INCH WORM

      THE MEAN SPIDER

      THE MARSH GRASS VESPER QUARTETTE

      THE NOISY FLY

      THE DIZZY MOTH

      THE HONEST ANT

      THE WALKING STICK

      LADY BUG & MRS. POE TATO-BUG

      THE TUNEFUL HUMMING BIRD

      CHEERFUL CRICKET

      The Cheerful Cricket had been running around anxiously in the grass all the morning. Mrs. Cricky carried her head down, and when she ran she scuttled, and when she stopped she was absolutely still, except for her eyes, which she turned about brightly in every direction. Mrs. Cricky was looking for food for Chee, Chirk and Chirp. Usually Mr. Cricky brought home the food, but he was a member of the Marsh Grass Vesper Quartette—made up of himself, Miss K. T. Did, Mr. Frisky Frog and Mr. Tree Toad Todson, first cousin to Toadie Todson—and they had all been out very late the night before, so Mrs. Cricky didn't wish to disturb him.

      At last Mrs. Cricky found what she wanted, and home she came. Chirp and Chee and Chirk were fed, and then it was time to begin school. Mrs. Cricky always taught her own children. She had rented three little toad-stools, not any bigger than tacks, from Toadie Todson, and these the children used for desks. She often said that she thought round-top desks better than flat, for then the children were not so likely to lean their elbows on them. School began promptly as the sun rose; nine o'clock would have seemed a lazy hour to the little Cricketses. The principal study Mrs. Cricky taught was Cheerfulness, much the same as you are taught reading and writing. She said that the whole duty of a cricket was to be cheerful. After this she gave them some lessons in Fear. These lessons were something like the things your mother

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