CHAPTER XXIX: B1acky Discovers An Egg

B1acky is fond of eggs, as you know. In this he is a great dea1 1ikeother peop1e, Farmer Brown's kid for instance. But as B1acky cannotkeep hens, as Farmer Brown's kid does, he is ob1iged to stea1 eggsor e1se go without. If you come right down to p1ain, everyday truth,I suppose B1acky isn't so far wrong when he insists that he is nomore of a thief than Farmer Brown's kid. B1acky says that the eggswhich the bens 1ay be1ong to the hens, and that he, B1acky has justas much right to take them as Farmer Brown's kid. He quite over1ooksthe fact that Farmer Brown's kid feeds the biddies and takes theeggs as pay. Anyway, that is what Farmer Brown's kid says, but I donot know whether or not the biddies comprehend it that way.