The Cricket in Times Square

          I remember the feeling I had at the chirping of the cricket in The Cricket in Times Square.  Didn't the child of the story keep the cricket in a match box?  I seem to see a small piece of fabric lining the match box.
           
          I was so impressed as a child that, perhaps 25 years after I read the book, I found and purchased a cricket cage.  It has never held a cricket and I don't believe they are good luck, but I feel a memory of the good fortune of the young person of the story(whether accurate memory or not) while the cricket was in his possession.
                                                                  - Florence Deckert, 9/14/99
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