I had called his attention to one singing in an adjacent dooryard.

Each day of the seven the thoroughbred with the slender legs and the tiny sensitive ears had stood in the barren dooryard before Elizabeth Landor's home.

There on that grassy plot that might have been a familiar dooryard of his early days, he was playing alone, gone back to childhood.

Half-way up the sere dooryard, Ken touched his wondering mother's arm and drew her to a standstill.

Here in the twilit dooryard he was found by his brother, who gave him the hand unoccupied by the bucket and led him in to the good, wholesome commonplaces of hearth-fire and supper and the jolliest of jokes and laughter.