The Cricket Sniffed and Smelled

The cricket had made its appearance at fast in the kitchen, dropping from somewhere above and startling the family. Lucy was taken aback, having expected some other kind of rebuke. Richard took the longest to come to himself before unfurling the newspaper he crumpled in his hands. The cricket sniffed and addressed richard immediately about his eating habits. Before him was a plate of fried, fatty sausages and a double heaping of rice,. presenting itself like the evidence of a crime this was prepared by lucy? Richard replied, shift the blame. Yes, every day, remarked the cricket, on your instructions. And you, the cricket said to lucy, no less