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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