An Egg Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 268, 30 May 1888, Page 3

An Egg Story.

Hisvstkoi *, results \ci v ficqucntl^ aic the penalty paid by erit.iin toolish persons who tor {iw.'U'oi undertake to drink or cat exoibitantl\, 01 to swallow substances thai arc not meant to no swallowed, and which sub.sctjuently cau^c the swallower extreme inconxenieiiee, if not sometimes moie than this In the (\i->o of a young man residing at Chalons-, m Franco, who, we read, lately bet that he would swallow a pigeon* cg^ without bi caking the shell, the consequences wcie not serious, but wither curious-., lie won his hot; the egg wa*< without breaking the shell ; but a tew da} h afterwards the young man experienced violent pains in the stomach, the said pains increasing so alaimingly that on thceighth day he called in a doctor, andconlided to him the folly of which he had been guilty. The doctor administered a strong emetic, the rcMill being that the og^ came back ; but on falling to the ground tho shell broke, and, to the astonishment of the patient, and those with him, out of tho biokon shell came a littlo pigeon, as lively and healthy as if it had been hatched iii the übiial way. Tho warmth in the young raan'.-. stowiach hacl pvoclucect the nnexpected lesult ; and if anyone doubts the truth ot the frtoiy, Miy those who vouch for it, they can go to Chalons and bee the pigeon ho hatched.