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The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket On the Hearth, Battle Of Life
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THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.                     239
Mrs. Fielding, takes her round the waist, and follows suit. Old
Dot no sooner sees this, than up he is, all alive, whisks off Mrs.
Dot in the middle of the dance, and is the foremost there. Caleb
no sooner sees this, than he clutches Tilly Slowboy by both hands
and goes off at score ; Miss Slowboy, firm in the belief that diving
hotly in among the other couples, and effecting any number of
concussions with them, is your only principle of footing it.
Hark! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp, Chirp,
Chirp ; and how the Kettle hums !
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But what is this ! Even as I listen to them, blithely, and turn towards Dot, for one last glimpse of a little figure very pleasant to me, she and the rest have vanished into air, and I am left alone. A Cricket sings upon the Hearth; a broken child's-toy lies upon the ground ; and nothing else remains.
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