PKESEIIVING EGG-SHELLS. 461 



our quiet readers, who perchance never played truant or robbed 

 a Bird's nest in his youthful days. 



The plan to be pursued is to make a hole in proportion to the 

 size of the egg in the point, and another in the butt ; shake the 

 egg well, or stir up the contents with a small wire or darning- 

 needle, so as to break up the yelk ; then apply the butt-end to 

 the mouth and blow the contents out at the point. This done 

 to your satisfaction, immerse the point in a cup of water and 

 suck up a small portion into the shell, shake it well and blow 

 it out ; repeat this operation till the inside is entirely free of all 

 the white or yelk that may adhere to its insides. 



Eggs may also be blown by means of a small pipe constructed 

 as exhibited in the following diagram : — 



These pipes, made of glass, can be had occasionally of the 

 Apothecaries. If made to order, however, either of silver or 

 other suitable metal, they will answer a better purpose and last 

 a lifetime; the glass ones are apt to get broken, and at all times 

 require nice handling, as4he points are necessarily so delicate 

 and fine that the slightest knock will fracture them. With the 

 use of this pipe it is only necessary to make one hole in the 

 side, shake the egg for a moment or so to break up the yolk, 

 then insert the point (c) of the pipe, and suck the contents, by 

 the application of the lips to the point (a), up into the bulb {h); 

 then withdraw it, and blow the contents out by the same pas- 

 sage that it was introduced ; repeat this as often as necessary, 

 according to the size of the egg ; then suck up some water into 

 the pipe and blow it into the egg, shake it up well, as before, 

 and draw off with the pipe, thus leaving the shell perfectly 

 clean. 



To preserve more effectually from corruption the semi-mem- 

 branous linino: that covers the whole internal surface of the egs 

 the putrefaction of which would more or less affect the integrity 



