From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   From O.'s domestic diary, 11 April 1940, in Complete Works, Vol. 12:   
      
     17 eggs.  Dropped them and broke every one.  Did not suppose they   
     could all have broken without exception, but so it was.   
      
   I note with curiosity that he sold his eggs by the score.  I never   
   bought eggs while in Britain, but I find it hard to imagine consumers   
   buying them that way.  Perhaps retailers added value by breaking up   
   threescore into five dozen.   
      
   I am taking the Complete Works out of the Harvard library one volume   
   at a time.  It seems no-one else is doing that at the moment; for they   
   are all lined up on the shelf (mirabile dictu, a short walk from the   
   stacks entrance).   
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