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The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens

One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.

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English Christmas storiesShort storiesChristmas storiesSocial life and customsJuvenile fictionFictionEnglish Short storiesSocial conditionsEngland, fictionFiction, short stories (single author)

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