The Cricket
Marjorie Benton Cooke
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, June 11, 2012)
If they oooie I 111 run away and hide! shouted the child, wfldly. JL. That will be very rude. No one acta like that no one except a barbarian, said Miss Wilder, calmly. I want to be a ba]- one of those things you said. You act like one most of the time. The duld brain caught at a new idea. What is that that what you sd? Barbarian? B-a-r-b-a-r-i-a-n, shespeU edsbwly. It is a savage creature with no manners, no morals, no clothes even. It lives in a hut or a tree, and eats roots and nuts, and nearly raw meat, Miss Wilder remarked, none too accurately, but slowly, in order to distract I sabdk sattention from the late subject of unpleasantness. The little girl considered her words thoughtfully. Do they have children? Yes. Where do they live? Oh, strange places; Fiji I slands, for one. A re there any near here? Not that I know of. I want to go live with the bar-barbarians.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at