Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

For the next hour, among vegetables, berry-bushes and fruit
trees, Saxon stored her brain with a huge mass of information to
be digested at her leisure. Billy, too, was interested, but he
left the talking to Saxon, himself rarely asking a question. At
the rear of the bungalow, where everything was as clean and
orderly as the front, they were shown through the chicken yard.
Here, in different runs, were kept several hundred small and
snow-white hens.