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No" he smiled down at her "I think I have cooled his ardour too effectually for that." She shuddered. "I shall never forget it." He patted her shoulder reassuringly. "I think you will, Chirpy. Or at least you will place it in the same category as the bull incident. You will forget the fright, and remember only with kindness the Knight Errant who had the good fortune to pull you through."
Chirpy Cricket found her rather discouraging. Still he hadn't given up hope of making Mrs. Ladybug change her mind. "I fear you're making a mistake," he remarked. "You ought to see this cousin. She's different from any of your family that I've ever met before." "How is she different?" Mrs. Ladybug demanded, pausing in her pursuit of insects on the leaves of the apple tree.
He came into the room as chirpy and anecdotal as usual, in no way discountenanced or put about by the presence of his venerable and illustrious sitter. He had heard that the Chelsea sage wrote histories which were no doubt very learned, but he felt no particular interest in the matter.
"Oh, all around the meadow!" said Chirpy Cricket. "The line will form along the stone wall by the roadside. ... Do you think you'll be there?" he inquired somewhat anxiously. "You certainly can count on me," Freddie Firefly promised. "Of course, I can't very well accept your invitation for more than about fifty-five of my brothers and maybe six dozen of my cousins.
"Dear Chirpy," it ran, "I hasten to write and tell you that now I am back in town again I am most hideously bored. I am, however, negotiating for a studio, which fact ought to earn for me your valued approval. If, for any reason, my presence should seem desirable to you, write or wire, and I shall come immediately. Your devoted
And besides, he thought his voice sounded better on water than it did on land. Quite often, during the nightly concerts in which Chirpy Cricket took part, he had noticed an odd cry, Peent! Peent! which seemed to come from the woods. And sometimes there followed from the same direction a hollow, booming sound, as if somebody were amusing himself by blowing across the bung-hole of an empty barrel.
Then he happened to catch sight of Chirpy Cricket hopping through the grass. And Daddy called to him and asked him how far it was to the oat field. "It's a good half-day's journey from here," said Chirpy Cricket cheerfully. But Daddy Longlegs did not feel the least bit cheerful when he heard that. "For the land's sake!" he exclaimed. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?
And Chirpy Cricket tells me your family always goes to bed at sunset." "So we do!" Buster agreed. "But my mother, the Queen, is going to order her honey-makers to work overtime for the present. And she wants you and your family to furnish lights so they can see what they're doing." "Oh! That's different!" Freddie Firefly exclaimed. "I thought she wanted me to help make honey.
And every time he heard Simon Screecher's unearthly wail he shivered so hard that his fiddling actually seemed to shiver too. Mr. Meadow Mouse inquired regularly whether Chirpy had hit upon any plan. And at last Mr. Meadow Mouse announced that he would have to think of one himself. So he sat down and looked very wise, while Chirpy Cricket fiddled for him, because Mr.
"I spend all my time underground. I've never been up in the open." "Don't you go out at night?" Chirpy asked him. "Never!" Mr. Mole Cricket declared. "I've lived my whole life in the dirt. And I like it too well to leave it." Chirpy Cricket thought his cousin was the queerest person he had ever met. "How do you get anything to eat?" he inquired. Mr.
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