The scallywags’ plan was for one of them to pretend to hurt his leg, and while the woman attended to him the other scallywag would run off with the eggs. The plan worked! The woman put down her basket of eggs to help the boy. The basket of eggs was rushed off to another factory and promptly sold.
Aha! But the woman somehow had pre-knowledge of the boys’ plan. Her basket was full of rotten eggs. The next day on their way to school the scallywags were pelted with those rotten eggs by those who had purchased them. The boys stank to high heaven and had to go home and get changed. They were late for school; missed sitting an important exam; failed the subject; left school; couldn’t get a job; and lived out their days deservedly miserable and unhappy. As one declared, “My life stinks” – and that was before his family life collapsed, before his car was written off, and before he got kidney failure and died.
Let that be a lesson to all of you.
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