The Cricket On The Hearth - 9781717340726

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! 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.

• • Author: Charles Dickens
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 82 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1717340725
• • ISBN-13: 9781717340726