Of course, he should have known better than to have visited the henhouse a second time after killing three of the best pullets there.
One morning, when he went to feed the biddies, he found that Shadow had visited the henhouse in the night and killed three of his best pullets.
The very next morning Happy Jack saw Farmer Brown's boy coming from the henhouse with something under his arm.
I didn't like his taking the hens off their nests to measure how wide the henhouse was.
The insurance men has sealed up Gran'ma Mullins' house, and they wouldn't leave the henhouse open till I signed a affidavit on behalf of the hens and released 'em from all claims for feed.
Unc' Billy Possum poked his sharp little old face out from under the henhouse and watched them go.
It got so that Unc' Billy Possum and Jimmy Skunk didn't dare go to the henhouse for eggs any more, for fear that they would get into one of the traps set for Reddy Fox.
Judith stood Salome's crutch up beside her, and departed to purify the henhouse door.
Lionel Hezekiah was subdued and angelic for four days after that affair of the henhouse door.
Judith found her there when she came in, severe and triumphant, from her bout with the henhouse door.
Well, I'm going to take a pail of hot water and a brush, and see what I can do to that henhouse door.
Impossible to imagine with what life and fire old Miss Henhouse gave this history.
But all the same, Maurice shingled his part of the henhouse before breakfast.
They went out of the henhouse together in silence.
Tom, go hitch Sable up to the cart and we'll bring the henhouse back where it belongs.
It took all hands to get thehenhouse on the cart, but this was finally done, and away went Sable up the road with the queer load after him in the dump cart.
And the barn and henhouse are nearer the pond than the house even!
Sure enough, the henhouse had left its foundation and now toppled over into the stream.
Then everybody in thehenhouse had to wake up, whether he wanted to or not.
However, when the nights began to grow chilly Henrietta was glad enough to creep into the henhouse with her companions.
He believed that the fox had only happened to enter his henhouseby accident.
This order was immediately carried out by the servant, but no sooner had Teenchy Duck entered the henhouse than she exclaimed: "Brother Fox, if you do not come to my aid, I am lost.
She reminds me of that chicken-thief Tom Jonah treed on the henhouse roof," chuckled Agnes.
He's the young man Tom Jonah chased up on to the henhouse roof.
Then a sailor boy caught him and put him in the henhouse with the fowls, the ducks, and the turkeys, while the poor stork stood quite bewildered among them.
Then Hjalmar went to the henhouse and, opening the door, called to the stork.
He was so eager to find out if the little door where in daytime the hens ran in and out of the henhouse was open, that he jumped inside the henyard just as soon as the gate was pushed open wide enough for him to enter.
Running swiftly but cautiously past the henhouse and along one side of the henyard, he peeped around the corner to see if by any chance the yard gate had been left open.
Never in his life had Reddy Fox visited Farmer Brown's henhouse with quite such a comfortable feeling as he now had.
Reddy knew when morning came, although the henhouse was still dark.
The thought of the chicken dinner reminded him that inside the henhouse it was dark.
Suddenly a box in the darkest corner of the henhouse moved.
It startled him so that he dropped the pan and spilled the corn all over the henhouse floor.
So Old Man Coyote peeked through the wires and watched Reddy Fox, who thought himself so much smarter, steal swiftly across to the henhouse and try that little door.
In his lifetime Reddy Fox has spent many anxious moments, but none more anxious than those in which he waited for Farmer Brown's boy to open the henhouse and feed the biddies on this particular morning.
Of course, he discovered that the little sliding door where the biddies go in and out of the henhouse was open.
He had been inside that henhouse before, and he knew that there were boxes in there.
Suddenly thehenhouse door was thrown open and Farmer Brown's boy stepped inside.
He knew that he had only a forlorn chance of escaping when Farmer Brown's boy should come to open the henhouse in the morning.
He built practically every henhouse now gracing or disgracing the backyards of our village.
When Blacky saw the two eggs in the nest in Farmer Brown's henhouse how Blacky did wish that he could take both.
But once in a great while some foolish hen will make a nest outside the henhouse somewhere, and if Blacky happens to find it the black scamp watches every minute he can spare from other mischief for a chance to steal an egg.
There was nothing about that henhouse and what went on there that Granny didn't know quite as well as Reddy.
Every night he goes out just before dark, collects the eggs and locks the henhouse so that no harm can come to the biddies while they are asleep on their roosts.
The fact that they were in Farmer Brown's henhouse didn't make them his any more than the fact that Mrs. Grouse was in a part of the Green Forest owned by Farmer Brown made her his.
If only there was some way of getting in that henhouse at night, there would be no trouble at all.
Farmer Brown's boy gave the little sliding door a hasty push, picked up his basket of eggs, locked the henhouse door and hurried out through the gate without stopping to close it.
Granny Fox had hoped that those two hens she and Reddy had stolen from Farmer Brown's henhouse would not be missed, but they were.
Every morning one of the first things he does is to feed them and open the henhouse so that they can run in the henyard if they want to.
So as they looked at the matter, there was nothing wrong in being in that henhouse in the middle of the night.
I suppose he thinks that if the henhouse door is locked, the gate doesn't matter.
That night he hid the trap very cunningly just inside the henhouse where any one creeping through that little hole made for the hens to go in and out would be sure to step in it.
Of course, Granny and Reddy Fox had no business to be in Farmer Brown's henhouse in the middle of the night, or at any other time, for that matter.
They were all so happy that they quite forgot their hunger until the door of the henhouse burst open, and in came three chubby children.
He strutted over to the big rooster and caused quite a flutter in the henhouse by saying: "We're lively enough when our crops are full, but when we are starving, it is a wonder that we can hold our heads up at all.
Perez turned, looked as directed, and saw the henhouse in flames.
The interior of the henhouse was now a mass of black smoke, from which the voices of the Captain and the Leghorns floated in a discordant medley, something like this: "Hold still, you lunatics!
Farmer Brown's boy picked him up again and laid him on a box, first putting a board over the hole in the floor and closing the henhouse door.
He must be the fellow I saw go under the henhouse last night.
He knew, of course, that it was Jimmy Skunk's boast that he feared no one, but it was hard to believe that Jimmy really intended to face Farmer Brown's boy right in his own henhouse where Jimmy had no business to be.
He never went inside the henhouse for eggs without first looking around carefully, to make sure that Johnnie Green wasn't watching him.
But one day when he leaped to the window-sill of the henhouse he was delighted to find a lump of maple sugar, which some one had carelessly left there.
XVIII Planning a Journey After they learned that Major Monkey was in the habit of going to Farmer Green's henhouse for eggs, the wild folk began to have a better opinion of him once more.
At last there came a day when Major Monkey discovered a thick pitcher on the henhouse floor.
But when he reached the henhouse Major Monkey had fled.
XXI A Sweet Tooth After his ride on old dog Spot, Major Monkey went to the henhouse for eggs even oftener than he had gone before.
He was following a trail made by Tommy Fox, who had visited the henhouse the night before.
Boats went down the current, bearing a sad freightage of sheep drowned in the night, and of ruined peasants, whose little wealth of stack and henhouse had been swept down by the unlooked-for tide.
Through such tramps his henhouse and his apple-lofts had often previously been invaded.
That's Sol Cobb's henhouse and the old rooster is in, judgin' by the signs.
It takes paint to make a sign, same as it does to keep a henhouse lookin' respectable.
Seems to me if I'm willin' to turn out at that ungodly hour and then go scratchin' around the henhouse to please you, you might be willin' to have a piece of pie het up for me.
You said you saw someone hiding behind thehenhouse that next morning, Captain," she said.
Dad says he cal'lates we'll have to build a raft to get to the henhouse on.
There was not much more to say, but as Sam'l sidled off the henhouse he murmured politely, "Ay, ay.
I was taking a drink, I remember, my palm over the mouth of the wooden spout and my mouth at the gimlet hole above, when a leg appeared above the corner of the wall against which the henhouse was built.
Sam'l leant against the henhouse as if all his desire to depart had gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "henhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
