The Cricket In Times Square
The Cricket In Times Square
Chapter One Tucker
A mouse was looking at Mario.
The mouse's name was Tucker,
and he was sitting in the opening of an abandoned drain pipe in the subway station at Times Square.
The drain pipe was his home. Back a few feet in the wall,
it opened out into a pocket that Tucker had filled with the bits of paper and shreds of cloth he collected.
And when he wasn't collecting, "scrounging" as he called it, or sleeping,
he liked to sit at th
