"Mr. Granby Lays An Egg". The farm need chickens, so Granby buys two hundred of them, all roosters! It’s early evening at Granby’s Green Acres on this July 31st and inside the weather-beaten farmhouse we find John Granby seating himself at the dining room table about to do his monthly bookkeeping. Swiftly he adds up the months profits makes a lightening calculation and says, “Martha where’s the red ink…”