EGGS IN LITERATURE. 49 
“The greatest event in a hen’s life is made 
up of an egg and a cackle.” 
H. W. BEEcHER. 
“And eggs—even they have their moral. 
See how they come and go. Every pleasure is 
transitory. We can’t even eat long.” 
Dickens, in Martin Chuzzlewit. 
“ A mystery hatched out of an egg and just 
as mysterious as if the egg had been addle.” 
HAWTHORNE. 
“ All this noise on account of anege. The 
children have picked up an egg? Great good 
will it do them. There is not very much in an 
egg. God provides them for everybody.” 
TOLSTOI. 
“ No more egg-pop made with eggs that would 
have been fighting cocks to judge by the 
pugnacity the beverage containing their yolks 
developed.” 
O. W. Hotes. — Essays. 
“JT try his head occasionally as housewives 
try eggs—-give it an intellectual shake and 
