First, that all losses by vermin can be easily avoided by yarding your little birds at home and keeping them under your own eye.
"Natural and Artificial Duck Culture"
James Rankin
They talked of their own country-old days at school; hard-fought battles on the Melbourne Cricket Ground; boat-racing on the Yarra; Billabong and other stations; bush-fires and cattle-yarding; long days on the road with cattle, and nights spent watching them under the stars.
"Captain Jim"
Mary Grant Bruce
The colony was, in short, simply a kraal for yarding British undesirables and housing their keepers; its remoteness was an advantage for the purpose in view; and it never seemed to strike the officials in England who superintended its affairs, that the adequate defence of a gaol against foreign aggression was an undertaking that called for exertion or forethought.
"Terre Napoleon A history of French explorations and projects in Australia"
Ernest Scott