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The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

by Charles Dickens

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England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionChristmas stories, EnglishHolidays -- Fiction

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  1. 01CHAPTER I—Chirp the First — part 1~25 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I—Chirp the First — part 2~25 min
  3. 03CHAPTER I—Chirp the First — part 3~9 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II—Chirp the Second — part 1~23 min
  5. 05CHAPTER II—Chirp the Second — part 2~25 min
  6. 06CHAPTER II—Chirp the Second — part 3~20 min
  7. 07CHAPTER III—Chirp the Third — part 1~25 min
  8. 08CHAPTER III—Chirp the Third — part 2~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER III—Chirp the Third — part 3~22 min

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The kettle began it! Don’t tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn’t say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. 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!

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