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Title: The Cricket

Author: Marjorie Cooke

Illustrator: J. Scott Williams

Release Date: April 16, 2008 [EBook #25081]

Language: English

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THE CRICKET

_Books by the Same Author_

BAMBI

CINDERELLA JANE

"DR. DAVID"

THE DUAL ALLIANCE

THE GIRL WHO LIVED IN THE WOODS

THE THRESHOLD

[Illustration: _"What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a
birthday party? . . . All the children in the colony are asked to come
and play with you, and you make a monkey of yourself"_]

THE CRICKET

BY

MARJORIE BENTON COOKE

[Illustration]

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
_J. SCOTT WILLIAMS_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1919

_Copyright, 1919, by_

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translations into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

_Copyright, 1918, 1919, by_
THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY
(Harper's Bazar)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday
party?" (_See page 6_) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
She watched Jerry and Althea pacing the de