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 Brown 's henhouse how Blacky did wish that he could take both . But he could n't . One would be all that he could manage . He must take his choice and go away while the going was good . Which should he take ? It often happens in this life that things which seem to be unimportant , mere trifles in themselves , prove to be just the opposite .
Now , so far as XXXXX could see , it did n't make the least difference which egg he took , excepting that one was a little bigger than the other .
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