barnyard fowls
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Science has explained many things, but it has not yet told why it sometimes happens that when seventeen eggs are hatched, the brood will consist of sixteen barnyard fowls and one eagle.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Hubbard, Elbert
Now and then, in open spaces in the path, I came upon shallow circular depressions where the bird had been dusting, an operation in which I had often seen our barnyard fowls complacently engaged.
From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford
Not far from the nest the parent birds scratch about in the leaves like diminutive barnyard fowls, for the grubs and insects hiding under them.
From Bird Neighbors by Blanchan, Neltje
"But you need not fire, Mr. Belgrave; for those snakes are as harmless as barnyard fowls, and they don't know enough to bite."
From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Optic, Oliver
Marching from the clubhouse were ten pretty girls, “shooing” in front of them ten varieties of barnyard fowls!
From The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Crane, Laura Dent
