Harris proposes to prepare scrambled eggs for breakfast. He says it is impossible for anyone to eat anything else after having the scrambled eggs prepared by him as he is quite famous for them. Eventually, he messes up everything. He has trouble breaking the eggs, getting them into the frying-pan; he even burns himself while he is near the stove. The result is altogether a dismal and burnt mess.
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Harris says he's a very good cook and offers to scramble eggs for breakfast. He actually says he's famous for his eggs. The men were hungry, and they gave him eggs (some smashed), the stove and the frying pan...... he had a bit of trouble breaking them, and in getting them into the pan. The process of making the eggs left him with multiple burns and numerous dropped utensils.
In the end, everything was a complete mess. A tablesppon of burnt eggs was all that remained of the original six, and Harris, of course, blamed everything but himself for the fiasco.
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Harris was in total mess with the dish. He faced trouble in breaking the eggs, getting them into the frying-pan, and keeping them off his trousers and sleeve. After a lot of effort, he could fix some half-a-dozen into the pan. He was harassed even while cooking them. Whenever he went near the pan, he burned himself, and then he would drop everything and dance round the stove, flicking his fingers and cursing the things. It was quite a show and the two friends enjoyed it immensely.
The end result of Harris's efforts was quite disappointing. Six eggs went into the frying-pan, and all that came out was a teaspoonful of burnt and unappetizing looking mess. Harris blamed the frying-pan for the disaster
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"He had some trouble in breaking the eggs—or rather not so much trouble in breaking them exactly as in getting them into the frying-pan when broken, and keeping them off his trousers, and preventing them from running up his sleeve; but he fixed some half-a-dozen into the pan at last, and then squatted down by the side of the stove and chivied them about with a fork."
In the end, Harris ended up with about a tablespoon of burnt eggs for breakfast..... the other two men would be left hungry but amused.
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