The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, Fiction, Literary

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!

• | Author: Charles Dickens
• | Publisher: Wildside Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2004
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0809597659
• | ISBN-13: 9780809597659