Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

They had driven off the road a hundred feet to his tiny barn in
order to water Hazel and Hattie. A sturdy young orchard covered
most of his ten acres, though a goodly portion was devoted to
whitewashed henhouses and wired runways wherein hundreds of
chickens were to be seen. He had just begun work on a small frame
dwelling.