One day May came down on a snake that had been brought in with a load.

I can hear her yell now, and it made her so frantic she's been killing them ever since.

It was only a harmless little garter snake, but she was so surprised.
Miss Amelia held her head very much on one side all the time she walked with Laddie, and she was so birdlike Leon slipped him a brick and told him to have her hold it to keep her down.

Seemed as if she might fly any minute.

She thought our barn was the nicest she ever had seen and the cleanest.