About fifteen yards from the corncrib burned a fire, meant for light rather than heat, as the night was warm. |
Here was a barn, a pasture, a cotton house, a corncrib, a pig wallow, a chicken coop and an outhouse. |
On his way, he noticed that the pigs hadn't been slopped, so he went to the corncrib, where he found some sacks. |
A huge rat, driven from his home under the corncrib, ran past Betty in the dark. |
Instead it was the corncrib and wagon house which stood a little apart from the rest of the buildings. |
So Rose dried her tears and hurried on after her mother out to Grandma Bell's corncrib. |