The Cricket on the Hearth: Large Print

By: Dickens, Charles

The kettle began it Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybinglemay leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but I say thekettle did. I ought to know, I hope? The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-facedDutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp.As if the clock hadn't finished striking, and the convulsive little Hay-maker at the top of it, jerking away right and left with a scythe in front of a Moorish Palace, hadn't mowed down half anacre 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 againstthe opinion of Mrs. Peerybingle, unless I were quite sure, on any account whatever. Nothing shouldinduce me. But, this is a question of fact. And the fact is, that the kettle began it at least five minutesbefore the Cricket gave any sign of being in existence. Contradict me, and I'll say ten

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RR52DPT
• ISBN13: 9798588249072
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"