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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: laid my egg."
"What! Laid an egg! In my throne room! How dare you do such a
thing?" asked the King, in a voice of fury.
"I lay eggs wherever I happen to be," said the hen, ruffling her
feathers and then shaking them into place.
"But--thunder-ation! Don't you know that eggs are poison?" roared the
King, while his rock-colored eyes stuck out in great terror.
"Poison! well, I declare," said Billina, indignantly. "I'll have
you know all my eggs are warranted strictly fresh and up to date.
Poison, indeed!"
"You don't understand," retorted the little monarch, nervously. "Eggs
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