This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...traits. "Oh, grandmamma!" Dorothy would break out at breakfast, "that is one of Topknot's eggs you have got, and aunt Hester's is Fantail's." "Nonsense, Dorothy," Miss Hester would say; "it is not possible to tell one egg from another." Not possible to tell one egg from another! If Dorothy had not known it was impolite ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...traits. "Oh, grandmamma!" Dorothy would break out at breakfast, "that is one of Topknot's eggs you have got, and aunt Hester's is Fantail's." "Nonsense, Dorothy," Miss Hester would say; "it is not possible to tell one egg from another." Not possible to tell one egg from another! If Dorothy had not known it was impolite to contradict, she could have proved that no two eggs were exactly alike. The children knew. How they gloated over the eggs! They had seen eggs, eaten eggs all their lives, but the real meaning of an egg had never before dawned upon their minds. Tennyson wrote about the music of the moon lying hidden in the eggs of the nightingale. That faintly suggests what Marcia, Dorothy, Lucy, and Gay saw in those piles of eggs. If only the hens would be sensible. Dorothy's first idea had been to have the name of the hens printed in black ink on the boxes, so that each hen, knowing her own place, might always go to it, so avoiding all confusion; and, indeed, if the hens had only carried out this excellent idea of Dorothy's, it would have been of inestimable advantage to all parties concerned. "I suppose," Marcia observed, "that the hens have their ideas just as we have ours." This was, of course, a sympathetic and charitable view to take of the matter. The hens did seem to have original ideas. When any one of them started off to begin her laying, she was almost sure not to do what was expected of her. When nice, comfortable nests in boxes had been provided, why should Blanche drop her eggs about casually, as it were, on the ground, on the floor of the hen-house? Why should Dot fly up and lay her egg on a high beam, so narrow that she could hardly balance herself on it when she was sitting down? R...
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