I liked the part where they as children try to find out where babies come from, where the sister Mary end up proclaiming:
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Ladies and Gentlement babies are born out of people's stomach holes.
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In another part the husband Bob and Betty herself hopes that working under pressure will make here more efficient and structured which ends with the following conclusion:
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unfortunately we both found that like the Government when given more bureaus to handle, I merely became more inefficient on a much larger scale.
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Two things in the book keeps coming back:
The relation to food in all it forms and Stove on which the food is prepared, you sure get a lot of reports on the stove all throughout the book.
To sum it all up from Bettys' perspective on hens:
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The thing that defeats me about a hen is its unresponsiveness. You can pour your heart's blood into their upbringing and all you can hope for is a squawk. You can stroke cats, pet dogs and ride horses, but the only thing you can do with a hen is eat it.
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Finally at the end Betty hopes for some not so early mornings when they're planning to move to a more modern house and Bob concludes this with:
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Oh, that wont make any difference. Bob said. Chickens have to be fed anyway and the earlier you feed em the sooner they start to lay.
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