A)When my husband Bob came home to tell me he was buying a chicken ranch in Washington, my first thought was, "Is it close enough to the White House to sell them eggs for the Easter Egg roll?"
[submitted by: TEd] Voted for by: Owlbow B)Now I can tell you with great certainty which came first, it was the egg.
[submitted by: Kelly123] Voted for by: Milum, sparteye, inselpeter, Alex Williams C)As the first glimpse of morning enveloped the eastern horizon Betty realized being already awake meant that autumn in New York would be soon upon them.
[submitted by: Musick] Voted for by: tsuwm D)When I vowed to love, honor and obey my husband, little did I know that this meant that one day, I�d be getting up at the crack of dawn to look at the tail-end of a chicken.
[submitted by: belMarduk] Voted for by: etaoin, sjmaxq, AnnaStrophic E)Along with teaching us that lamb must be cooked with garlic and that a lady never scratches her head or spits, my mother taught my sisters and me that it is a wife�s bounden duty to see that her husband is happy in his work.
[Betty Macdonald] Voted for by: Phantasma, Faldage, Elizabeth Creith, MaverickF)I remember it was the hottest day of the year so far, and when Bob was late that Friday I just knew right away something was up � he was always early on Fridays, but he breezed in over an hour late with a strange little breathy whistle and a fixed look of concentration crinkling his brow.
[submitted by: Maverick] Voted for by: Whitman O�NeillG)It seemed reasonable to Bob that high egg counts would be ensured by equipping each laying hen with her own rooster.
[submitted by: Owlbow] Voted for by: Musick H)"You never can tell what's gonna happen in this life", my Mama always said--and she sure was right.
[submitted by: Jackie] Voted for by: TEd Remington (I think, what with all the rambling, who�s to be sure 
), Father Steve, Kelly123 I)I was never really rural by nature, but mamma raised a few hens in her day.
[submitted by: WO�N] J)Bob had done his research and had settled on the Rhode Island Red, which, he had learned, was a robust breed, excellent for egg-production, and yet also suitable for meat, and best of all, he liked the sound of it.
[submitted by: Alex Williams] Voted for by: Consuelo K)At age plump six I marched home from an important tea party given by my dear friend Victoria Willington who was eight and lived up the hill in a big brownstone with an English garden and a pool; and with a jaunty toss of my golden locks I declared to my startled father and mother that I was and always had been a plutocrat and demanded to know why they had been keeping me captive and just what in Jumping Jesus had they done with my real parents?
[submitted by: themilum]L)When my newly married socialite mother went with Daddy to his new engineering job in Telluride, she was unaware that she had started not only a baby, but a family tradition as well.
[submitted by: Elizabeth Creith]M)The bag of feed corn was getting lighter every day.
[submitted by: Consuelo]N)If I ever thought the phrase "eggs over easy" was a contradiction in terms it wasn't during my days as a waitress at the Third St. Cafe.
[submitted by: Faldage]O)The notion of becoming chicken farmers really did seem like a bad idea at the time.
[submitted by: Tsuwm]P)Chickens we bought in the grocery store �- already plucked, and if you cajoled the butcher, split into parts.
[submitted by: Asp] Voted for by: Jackie ==================================== O.K. in the manner of elementary schools everywhere who now grade students in new and innovative ways so as not to traumatize children with what is called �red mark syndrome�, here are the scores for our second game of Fibliotheque.
A sunburst for Phantasma, Faldage, Elizabeth Creith, Maverick, who sussed out the real first line by Betty MacDonald.
Maverick also earns himself a slice of cherry pie because he got one vote for his submission, as do TEd, Musick, Owlbow, Alex Williams and ASp.
Kelly123 is the overall winner with a whole cherry pie since he got four votes for his opening line, and an additional slice for answering what has been an age-old question.
Jackie and I each earn a fluffy cloud for having earned three votes each.
And a twinkling star for all the rest of our participants.
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