Othersprobably those which, as Major Pitcher informed me, had spent the winter therewere as tame as barnyard fowls.

Down through the barnyard gate he saw the hired men coming, and a second glance discovered to him that two unknown men were with them.

He was fertilizing each year a third of his corn acreage with cotton seed, and a twentieth of his cotton with barnyard manure; and he was making a surplus of thirty or forty bushels of corn per hand for sale.

I stand and look long at my barnyard family.

"That's because I'm an old tramp," he said, laughing sort of; "I like to sit up on barnyard fences and chin with old wiveswhenever I can manage to get away from my patrol.

Some scratch about and feed on the ground, where they also nest, like our barnyard poultry.

The whole barnyard company, HENS, CHICKENS, CHICKS, DUCKS, TURKEYS, etc.; THE BLACKBIRD in his cage, THE CAT asleep on the wall, later A BUTTERFLY on the flowers.

An old, deserted house Your birthplace as you saw it in manhood The view from an eminence A city as seen from a roof garden by night Your mother's Bible A barnyard scene

THE TURKEY [Coming forward surrounded by a number of the barnyard constituents, obsequiously.]

The Mallard, which is a wild River Duck and a swift enduring flyer, is the one which has been domesticated and for hundreds of years kept as a barnyard Duck.