Megapode
eggs only stung his taste alive and stimulated the flow of his juices.
The Story Girl and I were looking for
eggs in the loft.
"I wish to hatch my own
eggs; I will hatch them all by myself," quacked Jemima Puddle-duck.
Coming from
eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size.
"But we might have taken the Oz people by surprise, and conquered them before they had a chance to get any
eggs. Our former defeat was due to the fact that the girl Dorothy had a Yellow Hen with her.
The robin talked this over with his mate a great deal for a few days but after that he decided not to speak of the subject because her terror was so great that he was afraid it might be injurious to the
Eggs.
'Five.' 'Now,' said the father to the eldest son, 'take away the
eggs without letting the bird that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.' So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five
eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
"Why do you lay
eggs, when you don't expect to hatch them?"
"Now I have Nagaina to settle with, and she will be worse than five Nags, and there's no knowing when the
eggs she spoke of will hatch.
Then up she flew; deserting her
eggs, so as to make her meaning clear.
The number of
eggs in the nest varies from twenty to forty, and even to fifty; and according to Azara, some times to seventy or eighty.
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their
eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.