Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 350
e stones. Now, this is strange, said Mis-ter Crow. It is the hard-est egg Iev-er saw. Per-haps it has been boiled for four min-utes. He flew down and looked at the egg. It did not look like a hard-boiled egg, and he took it up a-gain, and flew as high as the wopd-enroost-er on top of the barn. This… … good. I am ver-y hun-gry, and this is tire-some work. I 11 sit on thetop of the barn and rest. Just then the dai-ry-maid came a-long, and see-ing the egg on thepath, she picked it up and said : Gra-cious me ! Here is one of thoseChi-na nest-eggs out in the gar-den. 33° JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. [February,
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