In an 1845 tale, Mrs. Peerybingle says, "To have" one of these "on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!"
[DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The cricket on the hearth" - Internet Archive [PAR] But of this, there is no doubt : that the Kettle and the Cricket, at one and the ... like 
it," said Mrs. Peerybingle : pouting in a way that clearly showed she did like it, 
very much.