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...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity University. The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on... ...earth The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth The Cricket on the Hearth by by by by by Charles Dickens Charles D... ...ter being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 3 sleety sort of state wherein it seems to pe... ...an forward with a drunken air, and dribble, a very Idiot of a kettle, on the hearth. It was quarrelsome, and hissed and spluttered morosely at the fir... ...might know better than to leave their clocks so very lank The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 4 and unprotected, surely. Now it was, you obs... ... whatever. Mrs. Peerybingle knew it, perfectly, as she sat musing before the hearth. It’s a dark night, sang the kettle, and the rotten leaves are lyi... ... its little body into fifty pieces, it would have seemed The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 5 a natural and inevitable consequence, for wh... ...ne. And this light, bursting on a certain person who, on The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 6 the instant, approached towards it through t...

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...s with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point assuming a human voice to warn John that his suspicions that Dot is having an affair with the lodger are wrong. The life of the Peerybingles frequently intersect...

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...ef is provided by Tilly Slowboy, the disaster-prone nursemaid of John and Dot's baby, and Boxer, the family dog. The cricket who chirps on the family hearth assumes fairy form to save the day when disaster looms in the form of a mysterious stranger. Sentimental? Certainly - but this, the third (1845) of Dickens' short Christmas books, is as charming and irresistible as its...

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...Het kerstverhaal van 1845 vertaling van 'The Cricket on the Hearth'. De mooie jonge Dot en de oude vrachtrijder John lijken gelukkig getrouwd te zijn totdat John ziet dat Dot geheime omgang heeft met een knappe jonge man. (Introductie door Marcel Coenders)...

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...teps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them....

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...n-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them. The wonder was,... ...oise, the ashes were confined by a rusty fender about twice as long as the hearth. From this cheerful room itself, the attention of Mr. Gabriel Parson... ...and his eyes fixed on a wretched cinder fire that was smoul- dering on the hearth, was a young man of about two-and- twenty, miserably clad in an old ...

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...weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth. (Summary by rachelellen)...

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...n. Though pressure was applied for women to give up their jobs to homecoming servicemen and return to their “natural” places as the keepers of the hearth, many women refused to do so, and indeed the huge loss of life on the battlefields of Europe and in the flu epidemic meant that marriage and motherhood were closed for many women. A generation of men was lost and so wo...

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...d Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests permitted, to sit around the hearth and hear the wonderful tales of the animals, and foremost among them, Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. It turned out that some of the tales had different ways of telling, and the visitors took their turns at being the story-t...

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...ler to share their supper one evening, curious as they are to hear his stories. When he refuses, they capture him; the exchange of stories around the hearth turns into a debate about freedom and what freedom is worth. (Summary by Petra, partly adapted from the Translator's Preface)...

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...-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin becau...

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...ring the night-time and instructed her niece to remove the centre tile of their hearth, where she would discover the oft promised treasure. The young... ... wall, began to swing of its own accord; and then leaped down and danced on the hearth, and when they seized it to burn, it could hardly be held on ... ...r blamed her for not carrying out the ashes, the devil would come and clear the hearth for her. So when she was sent to drive the hogs out of the co...

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...s a oosmos for man only when the universe becomes his home, with its holy hearth whereon he offers saorifioe ; there is Eros for man only when being...

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...ns for serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest. The family was...

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...ent times. To buy myself time, I unpinned my hair and sat down next to the hearth to brush it out. After the incident in London I had not cut it a...

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...ok handsome, here in front of the fireplace,’ said Helen, as she laid the trophy in front of the hearth and stroked the handsome head of the tiger, ...

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...metal object she could get her hands on, snatched a carving knife from its hearth in the wood block and turned on genie-man. "Stay away from me," she ...

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...of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle....

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... and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its ow... ...’ Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little ‘Oh!’ of... ...urned in a minute with their arms full of things — such as bolsters, blankets, hearth rugs, table cloths, dish covers and coal scuttles. ‘I hope you’r... ...table till she had found the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on the hearth rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at each other. “No...

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...o try to swallow it all at once. You want to choke?” Daniel moved toward the hearth. Twigs Barbara M. Hodges 97 lay ready to be lit. It looked as if ... ...ve to leave Catherine. Wind whistled down the chimney and the flames in the hearth danced in response. A shiver traveled his back- bone. He didn’t ne... ...d to calm his heart’s frantic pounding. The fire’s coals still glowed in the hearth; he couldn’t have been asleep very long. He glanced over at Zipper... ... deeply and unafraid. He rose, wondering what had wakened him. Moving to the hearth, he tossed a log on it. The dry wood caught and firelight filled t... ...r him. But what if it wasn’t them? 106 The Emerald Dagger Daniel ran to the hearth and picked up a good-sized log. He moved to the side of the door a... ...n him. He felt his face flush as he heaved the log back onto the pile by the hearth. “I was going to Lord Hafgan. Patrick said I could be fostered the... ...log. She unpacked their saddlebags and spread their bedrolls in front of the hearth. The stream she’d heard bubbling nearby would provide them with fr... ... he held the candle aloft and looked upon the room provided him. In a corner hearth, pale yel- low flames sought to get a handhold on smoldering wood.... ... of the cot- tage. With a languid smile, she stretched. Flames danced in the hearth, the only light in the small room. She glanced at a shutter. No li...

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...o food appear? In Europe when the first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooking. When rich, elite Europeans found themselves eating fo... ...ong that it wipes away annually all evidence of the previous year’s carnage. Hearths may well have existed on the Veldt, and there is no scientific... ...n the Veldt, and there is no scientific way of determining whether there were hearths, unless you dig up the soil and try to find carbon deposits th... ...me from a forest fire, a natural deposit, rotting vegetation, or an artificial hearth used by humans. There are no cancer-causing carbon-pits called... ... are no cancer-causing carbon-pits called hearths found in the African Veldt. Hearths are all found around that area, outside that area, but not ins... ...ay. One thing is certain: the love in our hearts was replaced by the love of hearths, the love of watching things burn…. the love of destruction, d...

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...ed the papers she had gathered and stuffed them in the empty ash can on the hearth. Morgan plucked them out again as soon as Camilla’s back was tur... ...he sketch book from Daniel’s hands and propped it against the stones of the hearth. Her hand slipped under his dressing gown, and she ruffled her fi... ... wear tights.” Pointing her finger skyward, she placed one bare foot on the hearth. “‘To act or not to act, that is the question.’“ Listen With Y... ...n. A high, wide bed strewn with fur blankets occupied the space before the hearth, cold and drafty now, though Duff promised peat within the hour. ...