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Yea, the cricket versus the teapot almost ended it for me, too. But I muddled through to the last when Tackleton is overcome by the spirit of Christmas and becomes an entirely different person as did Scrooge, except that Scrooge's transformation was more believable.
According to Wikipedia, The Cricket on the Hearth was a commercial success in 1845 quickly going through two printings and was performed repeatedly in stage adaptations to the end of the century. So the most interesting thing about this book for me is how much literary tastes have changed in the last century and a half.
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