chirr-r-p

Updated: May 8, 2025

"Chirr-r-p, chirr-r-p, chirr-r-p," began a pleasantly shrill little voice beneath him. Over and over it repeated the sound, until the man's feverish imagination had made it into "cheer-up," and he cursed the cricket for its silly advice.

Eliot H. (Eliot Harlow) Robinson - 'Smiles' : A Rose of the Cumberlands