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Title: The Tale of Chirpy Cricket

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

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Sleepy-Time Tales
(Trademark Registered)

THE TALE OF CHIRPY CRICKET

[Illustration: Chirpy Discovers Mr. Cricket Frog. (Page 77)]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1920, by
Grosset & Dunlap

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I The Fiddler 1
II Quick and Easy 6
III The Bumblebee Family 10
IV Too Much Music 15
V A Light in the Dark 20
VI A Plan Goes Wrong 24
VII Johnnie Green's Guest 30
VIII Pleasing Johnnie Green 35
IX An Interrupted Nap 40
X Caught! 44
XI A Queer, New Cousin 48
XII An Underground Chat 52
XIII A Question of Feet 57
XIV Chirpy is Careful 61
XV Tommy Tree Cricket 66
XVI A Long Wait 71
XVII Sitting on a Lily-Pad 76
XVIII Mr. Cricket Frog's Trick 81
XIX It Wasn't Thunder 86
XX Bound to be Different 91
XXI Mr. Nighthawk Explains 96
XXII Harmless Mr. Meadow Mouse 101
XXIII A Wail in the Dark 107
XXIV Frightening Simon Screecher 112

THE TALE OF
CHIRPY CRICKET

I

THE FIDDLER

If Chirpy Cricket had begun to