FOR THE TINIES. MRS. HEN'S EGG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

FOR THE TINIES.

MRS. HEN'S EGG.

Mrs. Hen made herself a nest in the hedge. " Nobody will find it," she said. Sho laid a lovely brown little egg. She looked at it with her head on one Bide. " Now that is a pretty egg," she said. Sho began to cackle as hard as she could. " Cuck, cuck, cuck, I have a lovely egg. Cuck, cuck, cuck." Mary camo running across the field. Sho saw tho nest in the hedge, and she took tho egg home for lea. " Oh, dear," sobbed poor Mrs. Hen. "I have lost my egg."

MR. AND MRS. BANTAM. —Original. Joyce Hyde, Ruihi St., Rotorua (age II). A thrush looking for snails in the hedge stopped a minute. "Of course you have," ho said. " You were so vain. Sho wouT3 never have found it if you had not made so much noise." " But it was such a lovely egg," said Mrs. Hen. " I wanted to tell everyone about it." Tho thrush flew away. Mrs. Hen looked at her nest and sobbed. " I won't tell anyone to-morrow." She laid ten lovely, brown, littlo eggs, and sho did not tell anyone. Then one day sho brought ten little yellow chicks out of tho hedge. Sho was so pleased, and so was Mary.