Excerpt: " Then there were hens. Salongo and he had always said that there was money in hens these days, now that the women ate eggs and chicken; not that either of them agreed with the practice. Say what you liked, women who ate chicken and eggs were fairly asking to be infertile! The Women Welfare Officer who came round snooping occasionally, tried to say it was all nonsense, that chicken-meat and eggs made bigger and better babies. Well, they might look bigger and better, but nobody could deny that they were fewer! ..."