Show CITY dat DWELLER LLER UTTERS WAIL among other things he seems to have a grievance against the fresh freh egg an unhatched crocodile according to a learned journal utters a cry from inside the egg As aa we dwellers in this metropolis know to our coot the egg of our acquaintance the domestic breakfast variety to wit cries aloud after being placed under our noses eggs are arc usually regarded as a comic subject and the late dan leno was wont to deliver a most diverting dissertation concerning them too long have we suffered however from that ghastly imposture the fresh egg which may go back to the days of good king george the fourth for all we can tell eggs are tar far more uncertain than homans womans love or horse borsa races and whenever I 1 think or of thero them I 1 long to be in the country for there the milkman brings them along in the morning mornin gand and we have a guarantee that they will not revive memories of methuselah with nil all our boasted advancement we take remarkable risks where provisions are concerned some of the tinned products observable in hucksters windows I 1 should pe be sorry to sample for a royal ransom and I 1 eat cat a v winkle inkle if you paid roe me 60 50 down it was lizzle lizzie coote who used to sin sing 9 did you ever catch a winkle asleep most of us would plead not guilty As for seeing an oyster walk upstairs the chances are hopeless the oyster is s EL a swagger mollusc today and would insist ott on being taken up ui in a lift london chronicle |