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The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home
As if the clock hadn't finished striking, and the convulsive little Haymaker at the top of it, jerking away right and left with a scythe in front of a Moorish Palace, hadn't mowed down half an acre of imaginary grass before the Cricket joined in at all! Why, I am not naturally positive. Every one knows that. I wouldn't set my own opinion against the opinion of Mrs. Peerybingle, unless I were quite sure, on any account whatever. Nothing should induce me. But this is a question of fact. And the fact is, that the Kettle began it, at least five minutes before the Cricket gave any sign of being in existence. Contradict me: and I'll say ten. Let me narrate exactly how it happened. I should have proceeded to do so, in my very first word, but for this plain considerationif I am to tell a story I[3] must begin at the beginning; and how is it possible to begin at the beginning, without beginning at the Kettle? It appeared as if there were a sort of match, or trial of skill, you must understand, between the Kettle and the Cricket. And this is what led to it, and how it came about. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 37581
Author: Dickens, Charles
Release Date: Oct 1, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883 , Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867
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