Anita and the Cricket

Title: Anita and the Cricket
Year: 1937
Rights
Fulltext: Octobtr, 1997 THE YOUNG CITIZEN 269 Anita and the Cricket "I don't want to live on the farm," Anita said. I want to go back to Manila." "Don't you want to be an A-1 child?" asked her mother. "Yes, Mother, I do, but I cannot stay here. Thi0 s is a dull place." "You will soon like it. You will have plenty of milk and eggs here." looked up but there was no fruit. "Yes, but we have no radio. We "What a dull place," she thought. have no music at all," and Anita walked away pouting. "What is that?" she asked herself. "Somebody is playing a flute. Perhaps She went to the guava tree. She _it is a bamboo flute." Anita looked around but saw nobody. The music went on. It seemed to be close by. She looked closely. She saw only a few insects that looked like big moths. "O Mother," she cried when she saw her mother coming toward her," the butterflies are singing!" "They are not butterflies. They are crickets or kuliglig," Anita's mother explained.