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The boys had piloted her as far as the swimming raft, and, imitating Cricket's example, she climbed up on it, trying to rub off her wet face with her wetter sleeve, and looking perfectly miserable. "Archie, I've got to have a handkerchief, or a towel, or something, to dry my face. Please bring me one." The boys both laughed at her. "Oh, certainly," said Archie.
"I thought perhaps the girls would like to write on their stories for the 'Echo," she explained eagerly, "so I brought all the blank books and pencils. You can tear some leaves out of the back of mine and use them." There was much applause at Cricket's forethought. "Wise child," said auntie, approvingly, "I am glad to see that 'though on pleasure you are bent you have a' literary mind.
For a last touch I lifted my cap high and backed my horse on drooping haunches you've seen Buffalo Bill do it and then, with a leap like a cricket's, and to a clapping of maidens' hands that made me whooping drunk, we stretched away, my horse and I, on a long smooth gallop, for Brookhaven.
"I don't know any such thing," returned his mother; her voice of dissent had the shrill persistency of a cricket's. "Doctor Prescott always took a sight of notice of Elmira when she was a little girl and he used to come here. He never took to you, I know, but he always did to Elmira." Jerome said no more. He lighted a candle, took his parcel of new clothes, and went up-stairs to his chamber.
She and some of the girls from her school played truant t'other day and went to see a County cricket-match. You know cricket's the craze this term, and they got their money stolen and couldn't get home, and Lu didn't land up till ten o'clock at night!" "You don't mean it! What did Auntie say?"
Zaidee instantly jumped in, however, and, screaming, herself, added her small strength to pull up Cricket's arm, while Billy, startled by this sudden hubbub, ran distractedly from side to side, trying to find something to pull, likewise adding his peculiar "Hi! Hi!" his expression of great excitement. Cricket laughed so at the general uproar that she could not explain.
At last, when it was quite dark, Freddie Firefly lighted on a head of timothy grass close beside the stone wall and began to flash his light right in Chirpy Cricket's face. "Here I am, just as I promised!" he called. "Where's the rest of your crowd?" Chirpy Cricket asked Freddie Firefly, when they met by the stone wall. "It's getting darker every minute.
And since he expected to make only a short stay in Pleasant Valley he didn't want to fritter away any precious moments. Chirpy Cricket's neighbors soon noticed that he carried his fiddle with him everywhere he went. And the curious ones asked him a question. "Why" they inquired "why are you forever taking your fiddle with you?"
"Edna, I am afraid she's drowned or something," for she began to be much more worried over Cricket's non-appearance than at the prospect of spending a few more hours than they had intended on the island. "I'm sure nothing has happened to her. Cricket will never be drowned, don't be afraid. I think she's just plain gone off and forgotten us that bad girl! Won't I make the boys tease her for this!
"But permit me to correct you. I'm your cousin a good many thousand times removed. But that's no reason why we shouldn't be the best of friends. And now," he added, "won't you come home with me? I'd like you to meet my wife." While thanking him for the invitation, Chirpy Cricket couldn't help wondering whether Mr. Mole Cricket's wife had as big feet as her husband. "Do you live near-by?"
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