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I thought the cricket vs. the teapot segment was very cleverly written; I thoroughly enjoyed that part and thought it was one of the book's highlights. Dicken's anthropomorphic portrait of a frustrated teapot trying to keep up the pace was wonderfully painted in my mind. I could see how a creature as simple as a cricket could assume a teapot was a rival in a singing contest.
Hamlet53, I agree that The Cricket and the Hearth was far from Dicken's best, and BelleZora, I agree that Scrooge's transformation was far more believable and the ground for it far better prepared than was Tackleton's, but I certainly enjoyed the playful cricket vs. teapot segment far more than either of you.
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