Numskull feeds hens hot water so they will lay boiled eggs

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Numskull feeds hens hot water so they will lay boiled eggs.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits. · view the constellation · filed as J1901.2

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EnglandBaughman.
general *Clouston Noodles 120

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Filed under Absurd ignorance concerning the laying of eggs.

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The overfed hen. A woman wants her hen to lay many eggs. Overfeeds her and she stops laying altogether

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