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“What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday party? . . . All the children in the colony are asked to come and play with you, and you make a monkey of yourself”

THE CRICKET
BY MARJORIE BENTON COOKE

ILLUSTRATED BY J. SCOTT WILLIAMS
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1919
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