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As an insect? No, definitely not fit for human use. They're no more (or less) cheerful than cicadas, or even flies on window-panes. And Dickens used the cricket on the hearth as an emblem of the kind of sweet, insipid woman who bustles about making tea and never imagining herself getting married.

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As a game ... OK, I know it's not much known in the US, or Canada, but the rest of the English-speaking world has very different impressions of Cricket!