John Peerybingle's fireside—The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the first
"Did its mother make it up a beds, then!" cried Miss Slowboy to the baby; "and did its hair grow brown and curly when its caps was lifted off, and frighten it, a precious pets, a sitting by the fires!"—The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the first
"The extent to which he's winking at this moment!" whispered Caleb to his daughter. "Oh, my gracious!"—The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the second