ent down and down and down t

and down and down a long ti

below. "It's like a great b

nother Moon with

ow his golden head above the hills in the East. And little by little, as Kernel Cob and Sweetclover neared the E

r very feet, a great tall house with sails on it going round and round at a rapid rate, and, befo

clover sitting on the groun

must bear pain without complaint an

ned, and you may be sure that they were surprised to see these strange dolls. And t

said Sweetclover, "and

el Cob, "I never saw shoes like th

of wood," sa

uessed that they were in Holland-came over and p

day, and, when night was come, she put them to sleep in a ch

t, a cricket came out on the h

cricket, and Kernel Cob woke up

houted Kernel Cob peering

ped over to where K

you?" h

looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfat

" chirped the Cricket

Peggs' motheranfa

ver woke up and sat on

dy by that name," chirped the Cr

sked Ker

to all the crickets in the next house and garden, and so on, and so on, and so on, all thr

t the message back?

rder you may be assured that it will be obeyed," and he stretched him

I are very much obliged to you," and she said this so very sweetly a

telegraph instrument. "Crick-a-crick-a-crick. There," he chirped

skating in the winter and the curious wooden shoes that the people wore. And when he had done, Kernel Cob and Sweetclover told him

r his ears were quicker to hear than either Sweetclover's or th

cket pricked up his ears and held up

said as the chirping stopp

over, and the dew began

kes up, you'll not get away so easily again," and they followed him as

s soon outside, following quickly on the heels of the nimble Cricket w

d had fastened a piece of cloth to it for a sail, he shook hands with the Cricket and climbed

ood luck," chir

Cob and Sweetclover, and soon they were f

of the shore and the Cricket turn

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