They are Cocks of shreds and patches, idle bric-a-brac, fit to figure in a catalogue, not in a barnyard with its decent dunghill and its dog.

They feed along shallow rivers, ponds, and lakes, after the manner of barnyard Ducksfor the Mallard is one of them, and tame Ducks are domesticated Mallards, as I told you.

I could hear the bawling of the cattle in every barnyard for miles around, and the crowing of roosters as the fowls strutted about in the warm sun.

But what are you looking at, Andy?" and Frank also turned his eyes down toward the fringe of quince trees that marked the old lane leading to the barnyard from the road.