The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens - Books -  - 9798582735809 - December 26, 2020
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The Cricket on the Hearth

Mrs. Peerybingle going out into the raw twilight, and clicking over the wet stones in a pair of pattens that worked innumerable rough impressions of the first proposition in Euclid all about the yard-Mrs. Peerybingle filled the Kettle at the water butt. Presently returning, less the pattens: and a good deal less, for they were tall and Mrs. Peerybingle was but short: she set the Kettle on the fire. In doing which she lost her temper, or mislaid it for an instant; for the water-being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance, patten rings included-had laid hold of Mrs. Peerybingle's toes, and even splashed her legs. And when we rather plume ourselves (with reason too) upon our legs, and keep ourselves particularly neat in point of stockings, we find this, for the moment, hard to bear.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 26, 2020
ISBN13 9798582735809
Pages 78
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 5 mm   ·   95 g
Language English  

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