title: The Enormous Egg
author:  Oliver Butterworth 
description: "Quite a yarn. Recommended." (<b>School Library Journal (double-starred review)</b> )<br /><br />"[An] engagingly hilarious comedy." (<b>Christian Science Monitor</b> )
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  The Triumph of the Egg  
    
  
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  # The Triumph of the Egg
  
  
  ### Sherwood Anderson
  
  
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  MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful, kindly man.
  Until he was thirty-four years old he
  
  
  worked as a farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near
  the town of Bidwell, Ohio. He
  
  
  had then a horse of his own and on Saturday evenings drove into town to spend
  a few hours in social intercourse
  
  
  with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and stood
  about in Ben Head's saloon — crowded
  
  
  on Saturday evenings with visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses
  thumped on the bar. At ten o'clock
  
  
  father drove home along a lonely country road, made his horse comfortable for
  the night and himself went to bed,
  
  
  quite happy in his position in life. He had at that