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Chirp! chirp!
Chirp! chirp!
Ah, listen to that cheery song. It is the cricket on the hearth singing
thus gayly.
Dear little cricket; he lives in the corner by the fireplace. When all
is still we hear his cheery chirp! chirp! chirp!
Sometimes he comes peering out and runs across the hearth, a little
black fireside fairy.
Do you know one of the prettiest stories in the world has been written
about a cricket?