Chapter I: Front Matter

CRICKET

CRICKET

BY

ELIZABETH WESTYN TIMLOW

ILLUSTRATED BY
HARRIET R. RICHARDS

BOSTON
ESTES AND LAURIAT
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1895_,
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT

_Typography and Printing by
C. H. Simonds & Co.
Electrotyping by Geo. C. Scott & Sons
Boston, U. S. A._

TO
My Little God-Daughter,
HELEN MUNN.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. CRICKET 11

II. THE QUARREL 22

III. DAMMING THE BROOK 34

IV. THE CONSEQUENCES 43

V. FOURTH OF JULY 50

VI. MAKING ICE-CREAM 61

VII. MOPSIE 71

VIII. WHAT MOPSIE DID 80

IX. THE KITTENS 87

X. ELSPETH 97

XI. IN THE GARRET 104

XII. THE TRAMPS 114

XIII. MAMIE HECKER 124

XIV. LYNCH-LAW 133

XV. GOING TO THE CIDER MILL 144

XVI. THE RUNAWAY 151

XVII. GOING BLACKBERRYING 158

XVIII. COMING HOME 172

XIX. WHAT ZAIDEE AND HELEN FOUND 183

XX. MAMIE’S MESSAGE 195

XXI. THE NEW COW 204

XXII. MAMIE’S REPENTANCE 215

XXIII. WHEN MAMMA WAS A LITTLE GIRL 223

XXIV. MAMMA’S BANK 234

XXV. GOING BACK TO TOWN 242

XXVI. CRICKET’S SHORT MEMORY 254

XXVII. CRICKET’S BOOMERANG 267

XXVIII. KENNETH’S DAY 284

XXIX. A STRAWBERRY HUNT 293

XXX. LEFT BEHIND 309

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

HOW CRICKET DELIVERED THE MESSAGE _Frontispiece_

PAGE
HILDA BY THE BROOK 25

CELEBRATING THE 4TH OF JULY 57

EUNICE AND CRICKET WATCHING THE OTHER CHILDREN 89

CRICKET AND EUNICE THREATEN TO PUNISH MAMIE 135

CRICKET TRYING TO CATCH THE MINNOWS 165

CRICKET FINDS EUNICE UNCONSCIOUS 209

CRICKET AND ’MANDA 317

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