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When cultures subsist on food from individual cottages, it is not uncommon to find private pigpens.

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They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens.

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Assured that it was not and that the patient was responding nicely, she went to see the pigpens outside.

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Townsfolk used blocks of Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens.

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I peer in the chicken shads and the pigpens.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech