"Eggs" is a pathetic story of a fatherless six year old child and her poor widowed mother. The mother and the child had to depend on the child's first Aunt. They were her poor relations. The aunt, along with her children, Molly and Beng Bong, often insulted the poor mother who did all the work at home and often tormented the little child. The aunt often called them 'Beggars' and shouted at them, calling them names. The child was innocent. She knew nothing about inequality. Very often she could not understand her mother's ways. Her six years old brain could not unravel the mystery behind her actions.

One day the child, saw the eggs specialy fried for Molly and Beng. She was tempted and asked her mother for an egg. The mother scolded her. But when they went out to the temple, the mother bought six eggs out of her own pocket-money and fried them spcially for the child. She made the child sit before Molly and eat the eggs. Molly created a scene complaining that they had stolen their eggs. The child's mother replied that even a beggar's child could afford to eggs sometimes. The child soon found that she could not eat all the eggs. But her mother beat har saying that she should eat every bit of it. The child could not understand this. It wondered why the mother scolded her when she asked for only one egg and was now beating her and compelling her to eat six.

The child also recalled one or two similiar instances. One day the child was playing with her paper dolls. They had been detroyed and thrown out by Molly and Beng Bong. The child cried and the mother bought her a costly doll with egg shaped eyes rolling about.

Molly and Beng Bong wanted to see it and they pulled her doll. The child cried and the aunt shouted at them and asked her daughters not to play with the "Beggar's child". The mother was terribly hurt. She smashed the doll and threw it out. She also beat the child. The doll broke and the eyes rolled out. The child could not understand why the mother behaved like that. Finally she came to the conclusion that eggs were unlucky for her and that she would never asj for anything related with them. Becauses, for her, eggs meant scolding and beating, she decided not to ask for eggs or dolls with egg-shaped eyes.

The story entitled "Eggs" is a psychological story. It indicates, however, that irrational actions have psychological reasons. The story also brings out the innocence of the child which can see only the external cause and never undrestand the underlying reality.