There lay the two eggs ! CHAPTER XXXI : An Egg That Would n't Behave If you had an egg and it would n't behave Just what would you do with that egg , may I ask ? To make an egg do what it do n't want to do Strikes me like a difficult sort of a task . All of which is pure nonsense . Of course . Who ever heard of an egg either behaving or misbehaving ? Nobody . That is , nobody that I know , unless it be Blacky . It is best not to mention eggs in Blacky 's presence these days . They are a forbidden topic when he is about . Blacky is apt to be a little resentful at the mere mention of an egg . I do n't know as I wholly blame him . How would you feel if you knew you knew all there was to know about a thing , and then found out that you did n't know anything at all ? Well , that is the way it is with Blacky the Crow . If any one had told Blacky that he did n't know all there is to know about eggs , he would have laughed at the idea . Was n't he , Blacky , hatched from an egg himself ? And had n't he , ever since he was big enough , hunted eggs and stolen eggs and eaten eggs ? If he did n't know about eggs , who did ? That is the way he would have talked before his visit to Farmer Brown 's henhouse . It is since then that it has been unwise to mention eggs .
When Blacky saw the two eggs in the nest in Farmer XXXXX 's henhouse how Blacky did wish that he could take both .
Blacky Brown CHAPTER Egg XXXI days henhouse presence sort task