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Updated: June 25, 2025
The least little teeny thing she don't like about the way we run our paper, she comes flappin' over there and goes to screechin' around you could hear her out at the Poor House Farm!" "Now, now, Herbert," his Aunt Fanny interposed. "Poor little Florence isn't saying anything impolite to you not right now, at any rate. Why don't you be a little sweet to her just for once?"
What they saw was a mite of a fellow less than four inches long from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and of this total length the tail was almost half. He was slender, had short legs and mouselike feet. His coat was brownish above and grayish beneath, and the fur was very fine and soft. But the oddest thing about Teeny Weeny was his long, pointed head ending in a long nose.
There was one crack in the walls of the Crickets' winter home which opened right into the fireplace, so the light from the fire always lit up the Crickets' living room. Papa Cricket could read the Bugville News while Johnny Cricket fiddled all the latest popular Bug Songs and Mamma Cricket rocked and sang to little Teeny Cricket.
"Use to worry Teeny right smart, seein sperrits day an night. My husban say he gonna cure her, so he taken a grain o' corn an put it in a bottle in Teeny's bedroom over night. Den he planted it in de yard, an driv plenty sticks roun da place. When it was growin good, he put leaf-mold roun de stalk, an watch it ever day, an tell us don't nobody touch de stalk.
Got kind o' skeered an' skittish when we sot down together, an' come to think it all over, 'twouldn't 'a' been right. "'You're wrong, Solomon, I answered. 'You ought to have a home of your own and a wife to make you fond of it. How is the Little Cricket? "'Cunnin'est little shaver that ever lived, said he. 'I got him a teeny waggin an' drawed him down to the big medder an' back.
"Joel Pepper!" cried Polly, holding him with her brown eyes, "do you really mean that you are glad to give up that big evening party, and have the little teeny one in the morning?" "Yes," said Joel, "as true as I live and breathe, I do!" "Oh! oh! oh!" cried Polly, and seizing his arm, she led off in a dance, so much surpassing his efforts, that Phronsie screamed with delight to see them go.
Then recovering control of senses and of sense "But, dear witch," he asked her "since when, if I may venture to enquire, have you become an adept in the fine art of well lying?" Damaris looked around, her face irradiated by laughter. "And you played up, oh! so beautifully quick! I was a teeny bit afraid you might fail me. For the idea came all of a minute, there wasn't time to warn you.
"It must be clarified in the commencement," put in the doctor. "O' course it must be clarified," said Earl "Barby knows about clarifyin' that's when you first put it on you had ought to throw in a teeny drop o' milk fur to clear it milk's as good as a'most anything or, if you can get it, calf's blood's better"
That I must I must be let go over to that Staten Island on that boat, whether or no. Me an' a dog won't take up much room, an', if he won't let me, I'll wait round till I get some sort o' job an' earn the money to pay. You needn't think, Nick Parson, that a teeny thing like a few centses will keep me from grandpa.
"Now the Frogs always have been famous for their appetites, and Great-grandfather Frog found that it took a great many of these teeny weeny fish to make a comfortable meal. He was thinking of this one day when a larger fish came within reach, and almost without realizing what he was doing Great-grandfather snapped at and caught him.
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