“Most excellent indeed!”
“Is it quite fresh?”
“Perfectly! I dare say it was laid only a minute before it was boiled!”
“I have seen the eggs much larger than that.”
“Yes! but then I believe they are rather coarse,—at least we think so, when Mrs. Crabtree gives us a turkey egg at dinner.”
“If you prefer them small, perhaps you would like a guinea-fowl’s egg?”
“Thank you! but this one is just as I like them.”
“It looks rather over-done! If you think so, we could get another in a minute!”
“No! they are better well boiled!”
“Then probably it is not enough done. Some people like them quite hard, and I could easily pop it into the slop-basin for another minute.”