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Show FORCED TO CONSUME BAD EGGS Heroic Treatment Good Object Lessor for Merchant. Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist M P., who has traveled extensively and acquired a great knowledge' of the ways of the world, tells many stories of his experience. One relates to an English officer and himself. At a small ppst in Egypt they lived practically prac-tically on eggs and tinned meat, and, as there was nothing else to be had, the eggs were a very important item of the dietary. Day after day the eggs, like those of the oft-quoted curate, were "very good in parts," but one morning they were frankly bad. The officer, who had the power of life and death in those parts, determined that the eggs should be fresh in future, fu-ture, so the egg merchant was brought before him. "Open your mouth," said the officer, and the wretched man, standing between two sentries, obeyed, trembling. Slowly and solemnly an evil-smelling egg was poured in. Again the command was given, and again a potential rooster was gulped down. A third followed the other two. After that, whoever else may have had bad eggs palmed off on them, Sir Gilbert Parker and the officer were well served. |