He steps into the bushes to let me pass, then comes back to the road and trots upon his four adequate legs back to the farm to see if I left the gate of the henyard open.
If Reddy Fox had been relieved when he discovered thathenyard gate open, Farmer Brown's boy was equally relieved when he found that not a single biddie had been taken.
The meeting of Reddy Fox and Old Man Coyote just outside the gate to Farmer Brown's henyard had been wholly unexpected to both.
How had Reddy managed to get into thathenyard with that gate closed?
He knew that the gate had been latched when he entered the henyard that morning.
Over at the gate of Farmer Brown's henyard he could see a dark form.
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.
He didn't waste any time in pushing open thehenyard gate.
But the henyard gate, as you know, was closed fast.
The gate of the henyard was open two or three inches.
If the henyardgate had been open, he would have wasted no time in making that one quick spring.
Reddy had been so eager to get inside that gate that when he turned the corner at the henyard he hadn't looked beyond the gate.
They even came up around the henyard in broad daylight.
But the other he turned, as well as he could, on Mrs. Hen, who was in the henyard looking for worms.
And leaving Grumpy to find the rat hole without her help, Mrs. Hen fluttered across the henyard with her head thrust forward, to give her meddlesome neighbor a number of hard pecks and so teach her to mind her own affairs.
So Mrs. Hen sauntered across thehenyard to find out what it was.
They were half-way from the henyard to the house when Bowser the Hound came to meet his master.
If he is quite sure that no one is about, he sometimes drops down into the henyard and helps himself to corn, if any happens to be there.
When he was quite sure, he silently flew down into the henyard as he had done many times before.
Now I've kept an eye on that henyard, and I've noticed that very often Farmer Brown's boy doesn't close the henyard gate at night.
He discovered right away that the little sliding door which should have closed the opening through which the hens went in and out of the house was open, and then he remembered that he had left the henyard gate open the night before.
No one knew better than she how foolish it would be to go over to that henyard and just trust to luck for a chance to catch one of those biddies.
So he didn't intend to give them a chance to slip into that henyard while the biddies were out, or to give the biddies a chance to stray outside where they might be still more easily caught.
Granny had found a way to get the gate to the henyard left open, but this would do them no good unless there was some way of getting into the house, and this he very much doubted.
Across the henyard they trotted swiftly, straight to where more than once in the daytime they had seen the hens come out of the house through a little hole.
Then he purposely left the little sliding door open part way as if it had been forgotten, and he also left the henyard gate open just as he had done the night before.
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.
After the big snowstorm he had shovelled a place in the henyard where the hens could come out and exercise and get a sun-bath when they wanted to, and in the very warmest part of the clay they would do this.
And it was such a long, long way from Farmer Brown's henyard that old Granny Fox wouldn't even try to bring him a fat hen.
Fanner Brown's boy took him outside the henyard and gently put him down on the ground.
A henyard is a place where Farmer Brown keeps a lot of big foolish birds," explained Bob, "and little Bob is a prisoner there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "henyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
