Found this by accident on FMP news papers. Thought it was fun and interesting.
Liverpool Mercury 1869 18th July
OOps can't insert the word copy that I made . Help please
A BIG Egg!!
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Can't get it to copy, so I will transcribe the article.
Here goes.--
REMARKABLE EGG - A hen of the Dorking breed, belonging to Mr G. P. Jones Drake Street Bootle, has produced a somewhat extraordinary double egg. The larger or outside egg is of immense size, being 3 1/4 inches in length by 2 3/8 in the opposite direction. Within the larger egg is a small one, about the average size of a hen egg, the shell and other parts being perfectly developed. The hen is about 15 months old, and has on several previous occasions laid eggs of a large size.
This was in the Liverpool Mercury 18th July 1869, just after a report of one of my rellies trying to commit suicide.
Sorry for any typos
Lynne
Here goes.--
REMARKABLE EGG - A hen of the Dorking breed, belonging to Mr G. P. Jones Drake Street Bootle, has produced a somewhat extraordinary double egg. The larger or outside egg is of immense size, being 3 1/4 inches in length by 2 3/8 in the opposite direction. Within the larger egg is a small one, about the average size of a hen egg, the shell and other parts being perfectly developed. The hen is about 15 months old, and has on several previous occasions laid eggs of a large size.
This was in the Liverpool Mercury 18th July 1869, just after a report of one of my rellies trying to commit suicide.
Sorry for any typos
Lynne