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Updated: May 31, 2025
At first he only saw the blank wall of a cowshed and two wooden structures like old-fashioned dovecotes, connected by a high fence in which there was no gate. Up to this fence he rode to look over it, hoping to speak to the people he heard within; but it was too high for him to see over. Passing on, he brought his head level with a small window that was let into the wall of one of the hen-houses.
This did not at all content the enthusiastic spirits who were burning to throw lessons to the winds and spend their days in mixing putty, lime-washing hen-houses, and fixing up wire netting. They hung about disconsolately, snatching at such opportunities of assistance as holding ladders or handing nails. "You might let me tar the roof of the chicken-coop," begged Wendy.
She was always so busy about the garden and Rob and the hen-houses that she might not go to her room till quite late in the day. No; Rob, they decided, must be the medium, and Huldah thrilled with excitement. When she went to bed that night, she was so full of fears that she would not wake in good time in the morning that she tried to keep awake all night.
One of the carter boys was detailed to collect the eggs, as some of the hen-houses were in out-of-the-way corners of the yards and difficult to approach.
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