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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

Henry David Thoreau
Eggs, Hens, Chickens
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.386, Modern Library
Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.