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The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden IWB was a bed made out of a matchbox? IWB was the setting of the story a newspaper stand? IWB did a passenger ride a train from Connecticut to New York City underneath a roast beef sandwich? IWB did one of the main characters live in a drain pipe? IWB was liverwurst a favorite food of one of the main characters? IWB did one of the main characters eat part of a $2 dollar bill during their sleep? IWB did one of the main characters say, “I’m sleeping on money inside a palace”? IWB did a mouse like to sit at the opening of the drain pipe and watch the world go by when he wasn’t scrounging? IWB does Mario help Papa & Mama Bellini work in the family business far into the night? IWB did Papa decide to leave the cash register open because it had gotten stuck once with all the money in the world they had at the time? IWB did Paul, the conductor, flip a half dollar over the counter for the Sunday //Times//? IWB did a strange noise catch the attention of Mario and Tucker late on a Saturday night? IWB did a boy find an insect beneath a pile of soot, dust, and refuse? IWB did Mama want Mario to throw away the “bug”? IWB did a boy say that one can tell the temperature by counting the number of chirps in a minute, divide by 7, and add forty? IWB does a cricket get a new home in a matchbox? IWB did Chester tell a story about his time in Connecticut while they snacked on liverwurst? IWB did Harry cat say, “You should see it New Year’s Eve”? IWB did Mickey, the counterman, offer Mario’s pet a Strawberry flavored soda? IWB did Mr. Smedley, a music teacher, buy //Musical America// at 10:30 in the morning on the last Sunday of every month on his way home from church? IWB did a boy learn that Orpheus was the greatest musician who ever lived? IWB did someone go to Chinatown on the subway looking for a house for his pet? IWB did someone see a sign out front of an old shop that said, “SAI FONG- CHINESE NOVELTIES”? IWB was someone unable to keep looking at a glass case containing a row of Chinese goddesses, carved in ivory? IWB did someone receive a fortune that read: GOOD LUCK IS COMING YOUR WAY. BE READY.? IWB did someone receive a free little bell, no bigger than a honey bee, to hang in his pet’s pagoda cage? IWB does a mouse sleep on money and an earring inside a palace? IWB did an insect dream of eating a leaf only to wake up and realize it had eaten half of a $2 bill? IWB did a mouse give part of his life savings to bail out a friend? IWB was someone given a robe to wear before having a Chinese dinner with two older Chinese gentlemen and his pet? IWB did someone receive mulberry leaves for his pet to eat after dinner? IWB did three friends have a dinner party in a newsstand? IWB did a character learn it could imitate songs from the radio? IWB did a mouse knock over a box of matches and start a fire in a pile of newspapers? IWB did the playing of the song “Come Back to Sorrento” soften the spirits of Mama Bellini? IWB did an insect amaze someone so much that he thanked its owners for “the most delightful hour he had ever spent”? IWB did someone write a letter to the people of New York and the music editor of the //New Your Times// encouraging them to visit the Bellini newsstand for a marvelous concert? IWB did someone begin playing concerts at 8 and 4:30 to crowds of people daily in the subway station? IWB did someone become unhappy at his new fame? IWB did Tucker Mouse mention to Harry Cat that they should visit the country in Connecticut next summer? IWB did someone suggest her son take his pet to an entomologist to see what was wrong with it? IWB did someone try to steal a bell out of the pagoda cage? IWB did someone want to retire by going back to Connecticut at the peak of his success? IWB did three friends enjoy a farewell feast in a drain pipe? IWB did someone play a farewell concert so beautifully that the whole world seemed to stop and listen; no one even seemed to mind the backed up traffic? IWB did Chester play leap frog with Mario’s fist? IWB did someone take a bell with him to remember his time spent in New York?