The Egg and I Page #2

No running water, no Frigidaire.

Just plenty of elbow room.

Here's the back porch

out here.

Go on, take a look. That's

the chicken house over there.

Of course, we'll have

to make it bigger.

Those woods back there

belong to us too.

Isn't that some barn?

That's the pigpen in front of it.

Compact little layout, isn't it?

It needs a little sprucing up.

Some paint, some patches. We'll get

started on that in the morning.

Come on, I'll show you

the rest of the house.

You haven't seen anything yet. It keeps

getting better and better. Here's the pantry.

These steps go to the cellar

where we can store vegetables...

and all those canned goods

you're going to put up.

What's that?

Huh? Oh!

Isn't that a beauty?

I bet you've never seen a stove

like that in all your life.

Just aching for a big side of beef

or a pot full of soup...

or couple of

dozen loaves of bread.

Fresh bread.

I can smell it already.

You're going to have

a wonderful time with that stove.

You can get to the bedroom

right through the kitchen here.

I don't think it likes me.

- Betty?

- Coming.

You and I, my friend, are not

going to get along at all.

- Bob...

- How do you like this bed?

- Isn't it a wonderful old piece?

- Hmm.

It needs a little

propping up.

There, that ought to do it.

Kind of noisy,

don't you think?

- Isn't this the life, Betty?

- I guess so.

Once you get used to it.

- It's raining.

- Right through the roof.

Gesundheit.

There, we'll be

all right here.

I'll have to get up on that roof. Some

of the shingles must have loosened up.

You catching cold? You must have

been sitting in a draught.

- Ah, I must have.

- You better get in bed.

Ah, just smell that. Wonderful to fill

your lungs with clean air for a change.

Well, the first night

in our own home.

Doesn't it feel great, Betty?

Gonna make it a real home too.

Something to be proud of.

None of that hit-and-run stuff for us.

Just think, Betty,

this is where we'll...

probably spend

the rest of our lives.

- Doesn't it give you

a wonderful sense of security?

Now, then, everything's

gotta be scheduled.

Can't leave anything to chance.

Farming's a big enough gamble as it is.

Now by June we should have

at least a half-dozen sucklings.

We'll have a calf in July.

Then, along about August, we can begin

to figure on more important offspring.

- Oh, darling.

- Maybe 500 or 600 of them.

- 500, 600 what?

- Chicks, of course.

Maybe even more

if we're lucky.

I'd like to raise something

besides chickens, you know.

Oh, we'll have plenty of those too.

I'm counting on at least four.

Maybe even five.

Three boys and two girls, huh?

- All at once?

- Oh, no, one at a time.

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