Front matter
Reading edition
"CRICKET WENT TO THE WINDOW AND PEEPED OUT"
CRICKET AT THE SEASHORE
BY ELIZABETH WESTYN TIMLOW Author of "Cricket: A Story for Little Girls"
ILLUSTRATED BY Harriet Roosevelt Richards
BOSTON ESTES AND LAURIAT PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1896 By Estes & Lauriat
Colonial Press: C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
TO My Mother
CONTENTS.
CHAPTERPAGE
Old Billy 11
A Broken Wheel 21
Cricket's Discovery 33
Keeping Store 45
A Bath in Curds and Whey 61
Bear Island 79
The Exiles 101
A New Plaster 117
George W. and Martha 132
The Echo Club 147
The "Echo" 165
The Hairs of His Head 180
A Wrestling Match 192
Playing Nurse 204
A Knitting-bee 213
Two Little Runaways 223
Hilda Arrives 237
A Sailing Party 251
Becalmed 267
A New Hiding-place 287
Billy's Prayer 306
Helen's Text 323
The Jabberwock 333
After the Sacrifice 344
The End of the Summer 359
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
"Cricket went to the Window and Peeped Out" Frontispiece
"Old Billy Tells His Story to the Twins" 31
Landing on Bear Island 87
"The Exiles" 99
Feeding George Washington—"Cricket Bore Off Her Charge to the Kitchen" 137
"She Buried Herself in Her Next Story for 'The Echo'" 205
Hilda's Arrival 235
"Cricket Sat Down on the Beach with the Children" 293