i think he tells you to keep it....
win a battle against nurse joy and she'll give you a egg!
it takes about 10,000 for it to hatch and i atown in soul sliver because it took shortcuts
you need two ds's and..... well i did it before but that was on the first Pokemon ranger so.... Search online.
In Heart Gold and Soul Silver you can get Togepi from an egg that you receive from this old man and then later in the game visit professor Elm and he will give it to you.
Togepi, just like in the original Gold and Silver.
After getting the egg from Professor Elm walk into the grass outside of town and Lyra will give you some pokeballs after showing you how to catch Pokemon the right way
you get an egg from Professor Elm at the beginning of the game and then after a while that egg hatches into a Togepi... so pretty much you get a Togepi from Professor Elm
Togepi
Professor Oak's aide won't give you an Egg however Professor Elm's aide will give you an Egg if you visit him in the Violet City PokéMart after you beat Falkner.
You get an egg from Professor Elm's assistant from any Poke Mart.
Rubeus Hagrid received the dragons egg from an unknown man in the Hog Head, a pub in Hogsmeade. The man was Professor Quirrell who was trying to get information on how to get past Fluffy and knew that Hagrid really wanted a dragon.
If you have a bad egg you should do whatever you can in this world to get rid of it because it can destroy your game. If you do end up with a bad egg never save when you have it. The only way to get rid of the bad egg is to get the cloning cheat and clone the bad egg. WARNING never let the bad egg hatch. Heres the code for the cloning cheat only for heart gold and soul sliver though 1207484C 0000231D 94000130 FEFF0000 1207484C 0000E008 D2000000 00000000 directions hold R and switch the Pokemon you want to clone! Hope it helped