In an 1845 tale, Mrs. Peerybingle says, "To have" one of these "on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!"
..... At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat 
down upon a .... Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the 
door, and ...... To have a Cricket on the Hearth, is the luckiest thing in all the world
!