7. Others were swelling and cooing and bowing about their dames.
8. Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of
their pens.
9. From these pens sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as
if to snuff the air.
10. A stately squadron of snowy geese was riding in an adjoining pond,
convoying whole fleets of ducks.
11. Regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard.
12. Guinea fowls fretted about, like ill-tempered housewives, with their
peevish, discontented cry.
13. Before the barn-door strutted the gallant cock, clapping his burnished
wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart--sometimes
tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his
ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which
he had discovered.
+The Uses of Words and Groups of Words+.--In the first sentence _seemed_
asserts something about what two things? _Every_ goes with what word or
words? What word or words does the phrase _of the vast barn_ make more
definite in meaning? The two words _window_ and _crevice_ are joined
together by what word? The group of words _bursting forth with the
treasures of the farm_ describes what? Notice that _bursting_ also helps
_seemed_ to say something about window and crevice.
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