[Ads-l] antedating Curate's Egg

Baker, John JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM
Fri Jan 23 21:04:32 UTC 2015


"Like the curate's egg at the Bishop's breakfast table, it is very good indeed - in parts."  Edinburgh Evening News, May 19, 1896, at 2,  col. 5, via British Newspaper Archive.


John Baker

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