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Title: Cricket at the Seashore

Author: Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

Illustrator: Harriet Roosevelt Richards

Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24513]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "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.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. OLD BILLY 11

II. A BROKEN WHEEL 21

III. CRICKET'S DISCOVERY 33

IV. KEEPING STORE 45

V. A BATH IN CURDS AND WHEY 61

VI. BEAR ISLAND 79

VII. THE EXILES 101

VIII. A NEW PLASTER 117

IX. GEORGE W. AND MARTHA 132

X. THE ECHO CLUB 147

XI. THE "ECHO" 165

XII. THE HAIRS OF HIS HEAD 180

XIII. A WRESTLING MATCH 192

XIV. PLAYING NURSE 204

XV. A KNITTING-BEE 213

XVI. TWO LITTLE RUNAWAYS 223

XVII. HILDA ARRIVES 237

XVIII. A SAILING PARTY 251

XIX. BECALMED 267

XX. A NEW HIDING-PLACE 287

XXI. BILLY'S PRAYER 306

XXII. HELEN'S TEXT 323

XXIII. THE JABBERWOCK 333

XXIV. AFTER THE SACRIFICE 344

XXV. THE END OF THE SUMMER 359

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