| Just then the door swings wide and his wife and daughter rush in, flushed, laden with eggs from the henhouse. |
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| He proceeds on alone, finds he has Alexander's papers in his pocket, panics, gets lost and has to spend the night in a henhouse. |
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| For many, many years since 1976, we have had the equivalent of the fox guarding the henhouse. |
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| She had four hens of her own but last April a fox paid a visit to her henhouse in Broad Town and helped himself to half her flock. |
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| All the animals on the farm reject the duck, until a twister threatens the henhouse, dropping the baby chicks in the river. |
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| The secret is to keep the henhouse moving and not to leave uneaten scraps around at the end of the day. |
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| Wilbur loaded his Mauser with an exaggerated but surprisingly able movement and advanced toward the henhouse in an absurd crouch. |
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| Anyway, can you help me round up the chickens and put them in the other henhouse? |
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| Winter freezes, for example, could take a ferocious toll on the henhouse, which was her responsibility. |
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| As the hon. member for Lac-Saint-Louis asked earlier today in the debate, is the fox guarding the henhouse? |
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| An embryonic agricultural farm, fruits and vegetable orchard, together with a pigpen and henhouse were set up in order to supply the high school. |
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| But when it comes to deciding how bosses are paid, we want to invite the fox into the henhouse to baby-sit the chickens. |
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| For work they do what they can: the garden, henhouse, kitchen, office, and ironing. |
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| Self-regulation in financial services is the greatest example of allowing foxes to guard the henhouse that I can think of. |
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| If we turn it strictly over to industry, it is like the fox in the henhouse. |
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| So long as this does not happen, we are not going to ask the fox to tend the henhouse. |
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| During the CRTC rate hearings of 2001, dealing with the ceiling price, there was no doubt that the wolf was in the henhouse. |
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| This move by the government is tantamount to asking the fox to guard the henhouse. |
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| With organic bread, eggs from the henhouse, home-made jams and apple juices. |
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| Perhaps the most significant structural flaw in the current system, however, is that the fox is guarding the henhouse. |
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| In the meantime, Romney is carrying the chickens out the backdoor of the henhouse, one by one. |
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| The first time I found an egg in the henhouse, I almost crowed. |
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| Relax, you're like a fox that's been caught in the henhouse. |
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| My morning walk is usually a trip to the henhouse with a bucket of kitchen scraps which I fling, pausing for a few moments to admire the flock as they peck away. |
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| In the field were a henhouse, a tractor, and a small automobile. |
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| Why is the government putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse? |
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| The farmer collects the eggs from the henhouse several times a day, sorts them manually and then stores them on the holding at a controlled temperature. |
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| Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse. |
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| I would like my colleague to speak more about the ideology that underlies the amendments he spoke about, an ideology that would leave the fox in charge of the henhouse. |
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| You will discover the restored farmhouse, the cow byre, the stables, the pigsty and the henhouse. Displayed in the storeroom, the forge and the barn, are all the items, materials and tools essential to that way of life. |
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| Each animal occupies a surface in a henhouse. |
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| But putting that in the hands of private enterprise is a little like putting prisoners in charge of prisons, or the fox in charge of the henhouse. |
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| In the henhouse, we could hear all the hens cackling away. |
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| That really is like putting a fox in charge of a henhouse. |
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| It sees itself as part ethnographic museum and part research centre, and the interpreting booths are a lofty combination of henhouse and mousetrap. |
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