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  THE CRICKET

Books by the Same Author

Bambi

Cinderella Jane

“Dr. David”

The Dual Alliance

The Girl Who Lived in the Woods

The Threshold

“What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday party? . . . All the children in the colony are asked to come and play with you, and you make a monkey of yourself”

THE CRICKET

BY

MARJORIE BENTON COOKE

ILLUSTRATED BY

J. SCOTT WILLIAMS

Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1919

Copyright, 1919, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of

translations into foreign languages,

including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1918, 1919, by

The International Magazine Company

(Harper’s Bazar)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE3 CHAPTER TWO12 CHAPTER THREE23 CHAPTER FOUR34 CHAPTER FIVE44 CHAPTER SIX51 CHAPTER SEVEN59 CHAPTER EIGHT66 CHAPTER NINE77 CHAPTER TEN85 CHAPTER ELEVEN94 CHAPTER TWELVE105 CHAPTER THIRTEEN115 CHAPTER FOURTEEN 124 CHAPTER FIFTEEN133 CHAPTER SIXTEEN142

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN151 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN159 CHAPTER NINETEEN167 CHAPTER TWENTY175 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE184 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO193 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE202 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR211 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE219 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX226 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 235 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT243 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE253 CHAPTER THIRTY261 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE269

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday party?” Frontispiece (See page 6)

facing page She watched Jerry and Althea pacing the deck together 162 “You’ve made my summer for me, little witch,” Cartel said 182 “Ye’re a comfortable cricket, when ye want to be. I’d like to capture ye, to sing on my hearth!” 240

THE CRICKET

CHAPTER ONE

“I won’t have it! I won’t have it! If they come, I’ll run away and hide!” shouted the child, wildly.

“That will be very rude. No one acts like that—no one except a barbarian,” said Miss Wilder, calmly.

“I want to be a bar——one of those things you said.”

“You act like one…

  

 

  

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