CHAPTER XXIX: Blacky Discovers An Egg

Blacky is fond of eggs, as you know. In this he is a great deal likeother people, Farmer Brown's boy for instance. But as Blacky cannotkeep hens, as Farmer Brown's boy does, he is obliged to steal eggsor else go without. If you come right down to plain, everyday truth,I suppose Blacky isn't so far wrong when he insists that he is nomore of a thief than Farmer Brown's boy. Blacky says that the eggswhich the bens lay belong to the hens, and that he, Blacky has justas much right to take them as Farmer Brown's boy. He very overlooksthe fact that Farmer Brown's boy feeds the biddies and takes theeggs as pay. Anyway, that is what Farmer Brown's boy says, but I donot know whether or not the biddies comprehend it that way.