A young lady from Boston was explaining. “Take an egg.” she said, “and make a perforation in the base with some suitable pointed instrument, and a corresponding one in the apex. Then, by applying the lips to one aperture and forcibly exhaling the breath, discharge the shell of its contents.” “Well, well,” said the farmer's wife, who was listening, “it beats all how folks do things nowadays. When I was a girl we just made a hole in each end and blew."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1940, Page 2
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