1 Slender, quiet and quick, the man finished the coop he was making, turned it over, tried the sliding door, then set it aside.
2 Then he rose, went for an old coop, and took it to the chopping log where he was working.
3 Then he turned the coop over and deliberated, and he gave absolutely no sign of awareness of the woman's presence.
4 Connie crouched in front of the last coop.
5 'I'd love to touch them,' she said, putting her fingers gingerly through the bars of the coop.
6 The man standing above her laughed, and crouched down beside her, knees apart, and put his hand with quiet confidence slowly into the coop.
7 And he stood up, and stood away, moving to the other coop.
8 Without knowing, he came quickly towards her and crouched beside her again, taking the chick from her hands, because she was afraid of the hen, and putting it back in the coop.
9 As she bandaged it for him, he explained awkwardly that when attempting to get into a hen coop at Fayetteville, he had been discovered.
10 Scarlett did not ask whose hen coop but patted Pork's shoulder gently, tears in her eyes.
11 She found it a liver-colored frame coop half a block from Main Street.
12 I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
13 John, cooped up in the valley, and absorbed in his work, had had little chance of learning the news of the outside world during the last twelve years.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 14 Outside, by the clearing, he had built a low little roof of boughs and straw, a shelter for the birds, and under it stood the live coops.
15 Then all the live coops were occupied by hens, three brown and a grey and a black.