90 EGGS AS FOOD. 
Juvenal speaks of — 
“ The largest Eggs yet warm within their nest, 
Together with the Hens which laid them drest.” 
Utensils found in Pompeii make it plain that 
eggs were favorites there; in a painting from 
the walls of one of the excavated houses, a row 
of egg-yolks appear as a decoration of some 
dish upon the dining-table. 
According to Cesar, the flesh of fowls was a 
forbidden food in Briton; though it was freely 
used by the conquerors. The Saxons, however, 
kept many geese and ate their eggs, but thought 
it sacrilege to eat the flesh of a bird which 
furnishes such desirable food while living. 
In the thirteenth century, from a history of 
the street cries of Paris, we learn that eggs were 
hawked in that city. 
They appear to have been used as food in all 
ages, though the price of three pence for two 
dozen, which was fixed by the English Parlia- 
ment of the fourteenth century, shows either 
