[Erema by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookErema CHAPTER XXI 4/19
But please to look here.
What do you call this? Is this no reward? Is this not enough? Major, if you please, what do you call this? What a pity you have had your breakfast!" "A blessing--if this was to be my breakfast.
I call that, my dear, the very smallest egg I have seen since I took sparrows' nests.
No wonder they sell them at twelve a penny.
I congratulate you upon your first egg, my dear Mary." "Well, I don't care," replied Mrs.Hockin, who had the sweetest temper in the world.
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