This farmer's time was spent on a myriad of duties and details-his function was not yet totally specialized-ranging from butchering hogs to building chicken coops to thinning corn.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
She was suggesting he should come back with her that afternoon to coops and stay there indefinitely, so profound and attractive did his knowledge seem of what her own garden and her farm needed in the way of a treatment he alluded to as cross-dressing, when he interrupted her-a thing that had never happened to her before while inviting somebody to coops-to inquire why there were so very many people in the drawing-room and on the lawn.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
So Adam might have dressed-" "Oh, but you must come to coops!"
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim