Category: Observations

Sandy is determined to catch Mistress M’Snob in the act of stealing his eggs.

The shoemaker gets his own back on his wife and sabotages her butter-making.

Peace appears to have broken out at the shoemaker’s house. A keen gardener, he is sure he is going to lift the trophy at the upcoming flower show. While he is out, somehow his hens escape from their locked hen house and eat all his plants. He has his suspicions as to who is responsible.

Sandy buys a saucepan, spoon and condiments and finally cooks his eggs, but they turn out to be rotten. He can’t work out how freshly laid eggs can be rotten, but Mistress M’Snob had something to do with it.

Sandy advertises in the Bon Accord for six egg-laying hens. After much deliberation, he agrees terms with the seller and takes possession of them. Although they do indeed lay eggs, Sandy’s wife refuses to cook them, so he resolves to do so himself.

Eventually, Sandy gets his sack of chickens back from the rag and bone man’s truck and looks forward to eggs for breakfast once again. No eggs were laid but the was a lot of cock-a-doodling.

Accusations fly and all hell breaks loose at the shoemaker’s house over the removal of Sandy’s hens.

Sandy M’Snob goes to Hilly’s to buy some hens and stashes them in a sack in his shed until he can get round to making a hen house. Meanwhile the rag and bone merchant calls and takes the sack of hens by mistake.