The sound seemed to come from the barn-yard.
"Ah," said Mary Bell, "there is Queen Bess going to pasture this morning.

How glad I was to see her yesterday in the woods! Let us go and see her now." So saying she led the way around the corner of the house, by a pleasant path through the high grass that was growing in the yard, toward the barns.

Bella followed her.

They passed through a gate, then across a little lane, then through a gate on the other side of the lane, which led into the barn-yards.

The barns, like the house, were built of logs, but they were very neatly made, and the yards around them were at this season of the year dry and green.
Mary and Bella walked on across the barn-yard until they got to the back side of the barn, when they found Thomas turning the cows into a little green lane which led to the pasture.