All is revealed, and our merry story comes to an end.

Charles Dickens, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, The Cricket on the Harth, part three of three by Charles Dickens.

Chapter 3, Cherp the 3rd.

The Dutch clock in the corner struck ten, and the carrier sat down by his fireside,

so troubled and grief-worn that he seemed to scare the cuckoo,

who, having cut his ten melodious announcements as short as possible,

plunged back into the Moorish Palace again,

and clapped his little door behind him, as if the unwanted spectacle were too much for his feelings. If the little haymaker

had been armed with the sharpest of sides, and had cut at every stroke into the carrier's heart,

he never could have gashed and wounded it as Dot

had done. It was a heart so full of love for her, so bound up and held together by innumerable

...