"from The Cricket in Times Square" chirp - short, sharp sound made by a cricket furiously - quickly, wildly melody - a succession of single tones in music occasion - a special event railroad - track with steel rails that trains travel on subway - underground electric railway traffic - coming and going along a way of travel venturing - daring to go

"A Big-City Dream" blisters - sores on the skin catalog - a list with pictures and prices celebrate - observe a special time with festivities impressed - influenced deeply padlock - a lock that can be put on and removed

"I Love Guinea Pigs" boars - male pigs or hogs fond - loving or liking gnawing - biting and wearing away sow - fully-grown female pig varieties - different kinds, types, sorts

"The Swimming Hole" bristled - made one's hair stand up straight dugout - shelter formed by digging a hole into a hillside jointed - having joints or places where two parts join together naughty - not well-behaved punish - discipline rushes - grasslike plants with hollow stems shallow - not deep

"Komodo Dragons" armor - covering worn to protect the body in fighting fierce - savage; wild harshest - roughest lizards - reptiles somewhat like snakes, but with four legs and thicker bodies prey - an animal hunted for food reptiles - one group of cold-blooded animals with backbones and lungs roam - wander

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