“The Man in the Moon
Came up too soon,
And waked the girls too early.
Cricket ran into the hall
And got a great fall,
And made a great hurly-burly.”
Fortunately, Cricket did not mind teasing, else her life would have been a burden.
By breakfast they had fired off dozens of packages of giant torpedoes and an unlimited number of fire-crackers, and went trooping into the house, feeling, they said, as if they had been up for at least six weeks.
CHAPTER VI.
MAKING ICE-CREAM.
After breakfast there came a little lull in the excitement. The edge had been taken off of the enjoyment of torpedoes, by this time, and the delights of fire-crackers palled.