Poached
“Poached eggs on toast, please," ordered three 11-year-old boys in a cafe at Alton (Hants), says the London “News Chronicle.” “Eggs, indeed,” said the proprietor. “Where do you think we get eggs from?” Taking five eggs from their pockets, the boys said: “That’s all right. You toast the bread and we’ll give you the eggs.” At Alton Juvenile Court it was disclosed that the boys had stolen the eggs from a farm. For this and other offences they were each ordered six strokes of the birch and placed on probation for a year.
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Northern Advocate, 28 May 1941, Page 4
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