Show HIS HS IS COSTLY dOSTY M OF OP EGGS What Wt Het Would Have Eave Brought rought Him Bim an Hour Later Washington asil Evening Star Six hundred dollars worth of eggs would seem to be a a rather heavy break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast for one man to to o eat cat observed a awell awen aswell wen well known scientist but I can certify certify that a a a man Sate ate that amount of eggs and that he told me tue after he had got egg away awtY wih with them he that they tey had not fully full satisfied his hunger Ten Tea minutes after he had finished his meal he com corn complained that the te eggs did not seem to sit well wel in his stomach It I happened ned in this way Several years since I was out in the Rocky mountains in Colorado hunting eggs for the te Smithsonian Institution I Iwas Iwas Iwas egg was instructed to devote special atten attention aten attention tion ton to pheasant eggs egg and to one va variety variety a arety In particular the yellow pheas pheasant pheasant pheasant ant popularly called cle which were then as now very ery scarce The trip was wa on the whole rather successful though I Idid Idid Idid did not nut find many of the particular pheasant eggs referred to One morn morning mornIng morning ing I found myself on one of the high mountains which surround the city of Georgetown Colo Cole I had ha had my own breakfast breakfast In t town and rode ode up the mountain on on oh a burro buro carrying on my search for fon for pheasant eggs About 10 I ran rn across a mine prospector who was nas wa just finishing up his breakfast breakfast After spending some sometime sometime time In conversation with wih him I noticed I Isome some pieces of egg shell shen on the ground gound To my surprise and delight they were the shells of the pheasant eggs egg that I Iwas Ia Iwas was a so anxious to find Not supposing that he was interested In my branch of science I mentioned in a casual way ay that the shells were of the the egg of ofa ofa a certain species of yellow pheasant that I was exceedingly anxious to find findor findor or secure Then he told me that in his wandering up on the mountain that morning moring he had found a nest contain containing containing containIng ing the te eggs and finding that theli the were fresh he had eaten them six in all aU Then It was my m turn tur to talk and when I had told him that the eggs egg were very ver rare and that I would will willingly wl I pay apiece for them he looked disgusted and actually actual turned pale He had been having haYing rather a ahard ahard ahard I hard run of luck and felt fel very sorry of course coure that he had unaware par partaken partaken partaken taken of such a a breakfast t He thought he might be able to find II another nest thereabouts thereabout and offered to furnish me six eggs of the same species species I cies cles for a sum considerably less lens than which offer ofer I accepted We hunt hunted hunted hunted ed together all an that day and every day I for over a week but to no O purpose Three months later I made a similar find myself but at a place miles distant from there The eggs egg I found I are in Ia the Smithsonian yet and as a I know are about the only eggs of that particular species in any collection In Inthis inthis Inthis this country countr A year ago I got a letter leter from the prospector He Is still sun in Colorado but says sa s he has never r ver been able to eat an egg of any kind since |