LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“What do you mean by acting like this when I give you a birthday party?”	[Frontispiece]
(See [page 6])
	facing page
She watched Jerry and Althea pacing the deck together	[162]
“You’ve made my summer for me, little witch,” Cartel said	[182]
“Ye’re a comfortable cricket, when ye want to be. I’d like to capture ye, to sing on my hearth!”	[240]

THE CRICKET

“I won’t have it! I won’t have it! If they come, I’ll run away and hide!” shouted the child, wildly.

“That will be very rude. No one acts like that—no one except a barbarian,” said Miss Wilder, calmly.