barnyard fowls
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You are also instructed to procure for Mr. Merrick's use a good Jersey cow, some pigs and a dozen or so barnyard fowls.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Andersson and a companion, while traversing a sterile plain, caught sight of a male and female ostrich, with a brood of young ones about the size of barnyard fowls.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
Then the old women of the village bring barnyard fowls to the master as presents, and these are left in the house which the horse has only recently vacated.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed
Perhaps no part of agriculture is more profitable to the wise farmer than his barnyard fowls, and in Washington this is exceptionally true.
From A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell
They are never molested; indeed, like the pariah dogs of the Orient, they have the right of way; and they are evidently conscious of the fact, for they are tamer than barnyard fowls.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard
