قراءة كتاب The Cricket
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SEVENTEEN
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| “What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday party?” | Frontispiece |
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| 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 most of the time.”
The child brain caught at a new idea.
“What is that—that what you said?”
“Barbarian? B-a-r-b-a-r-i-a-n,” she spelled slowly. “It is a savage creature with no manners, no morals, no clothes even. It lives in a hut or a tree, and eats roots and nuts, and nearly raw meat,” Miss Wilder remarked, none too accurately, but slowly, in order to distract