Chirp the Third

Richard Doyle; engraver, T. Williams

1845

10.3 high by 6.7 cm wide (4 ½ by 2 ⅝ inches), framed

Dickens's The Cricket on The Hearth, "Chirp the Third," 114.

Enclosed text: CHIRP THE THIRD — The Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten, when the Carrier sat down by his fireside. So troubled and grief-worn, that he seemed to scare the Cuckoo, who, having cut his ten. . . . [114]

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