Small insects of the family Gryllidae.
1And the thing that's waked him up is a country store-bycricky!
2At last Mrs. Cricky found what she wanted, and home she came.
3Mrs. Cricky remembered the interrupted lessons and spoke severely to him:
4Mrs. Cricky said the moral of his end was very plain to her.
5Mrs. Cricky came out of her house with an angry flounce.
6Mrs. Cricky was looking for food for Chee, Chirk and Chirp.
7When the leaf floated in shore they all went home and told Mother Cricky.
8Father Cricky was very glad to sing it, and this was the song he sang:
9Mrs. Cricky always called that kind of anger in Mr. Cricky "righteous indignation."
10Cricky, wouldn't Mother be mad if she caught you?
11Not more than six hours after this Mrs. Cricky overheard the green inch-worm practising a tune.
12By this time Mrs. Cricky had come out to see what all the noise was about.
13It was not very polite for Mrs. Cricky to laugh, but really she could not help it.
14Mrs. Cricky always taught her own children.
15Mr. Cricky in writing it up for the June Bug Journal pronounced it the success of the season.
16The principal study Mrs. Cricky taught was Cheerfulness, much the same as you are taught reading and writing.