“Cat! You get out! There is work to be done. I have no time for tricks. I must go back and dig. I can’t have you here eating cake like a pig! You get out of this house! We don’t want you about!”
″‘Tell me, Cricket, who you may be?’
‘I am the Talking-Cricket, and I have lived in this room a hundred years and more.’
‘Now, however, this room is mine,’ said the puppet, ‘and if you would do me a pleasure go away at once, without even turning around.’
‘I will not go,’ answered the Cricket, ‘until I have told you a great truth.‘”