pewlies’ eggs

…Mr Ian Corby to his modest disappointment did not on this occasion discover any pewlies’ eggs or other gourmandise. Withal, being a sanguine sort of a corvid, and not given to dwelling overlong on the culinary solecisms which the spinners and snippers of thread chose to inflict upon him, he straightways leapt down into the chimney pot and just as expeditiously vanished.