All of which is pure nonsense. Of course. Who ever heard of an egg
either behaving or misbehaving? Nobody. That is, nobody that I know,
unless it be Blacky. It is best not to mention eggs in Blacky's
presence these days. They are a forbidden topic when he is
about. Blacky is apt to be a little resentful at the mere mention of
an egg. I don't know as I wholly blame him. How would you feel if
you knew you knew all there was to know about a thing, and then
found out that you didn't know anything at all? Well, that is the
way it is with Blacky the Crow.
If any one had told Blacky that he didn't know all there is to know
about eggs, he would have laughed at the idea. Wasn't he, Blacky,
hatched from an egg himself? And hadn't he, ever since he was big
enough, hunted eggs and stolen eggs and eaten eggs? If he didn't
know about eggs, who did? That is the way he would have talked
before his visit to Farmer Brown's henhouse. It is since then that
it has been unwise to mention eggs
When Blacky saw the two eggs in the nest in Farmer Brown's henhouse
how Blacky did wish that he could take both. But he couldn't. One
would be all that he could manage. He must take his choice and go
away while the going was good. Which should he take?
It often happens in this life that things which seem to be
unimportant, mere trifles in themselves, prove to be just the
opposite. Now, so far as Blacky could see, it didn't make the least
difference which egg he took, excepting that one was a little bigger
than the other.
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