Those Eggs.
She was a lady of mature years, ami, seeing that she was wiping She iluur off her hands with bee apron, the village grocer was not surprised to ier.rnt hat siie had It 1 t. the task of making Christmas puddings to visit him. “Me ami my 'n-binds been ’aving a argymeiit," she Hid. “ami we thought .you could set tie it. How long has the dodo been extinct ?" The grocer retreated into his back parlo ir, and returned wile the information that the bird m question had been extinct two hundred years. “ Oh,” sail! the lady, as she suddenly produced some doubt;,i; looking eggs from her- pocket, " i thought by th- smell it was about that ; but my ’usbaml e said it was three hundred. You must have sent them to my place by mistake. 1 ordei ed ens’ eggs, not dodos’.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 34, 4 May 1906, Page 3
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145Those Eggs. Kaikoura Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 34, 4 May 1906, Page 3
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