He could shut his eyes and just see the inside of Farmer Brown's hen-house with the rows of hens and roosters sitting on the roosts at one end, their heads tucked under their wings.
"The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum"
Thornton W. Burgess
The whole thing is about the size of a smallish hen-house, the upper floor representing the roosts.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
He roosts in it like a screech-owl.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann