Razing A barn stood aloft a hill's crest, Like a king viewing a court's assembly. In rural life, the largest human structure is the barn.
Barns are also the province of teenagers, adulterers, smokers, and animals.
They represent the intermediate stage between a house and a field. Colonial farmers lashed a small tree to the peak of a barn as they offered a prayer of thanksgiving. The types of barn roofs include the salt box, the gable on hip, the bevelly jog, the snug Dutch, the English gambrel, the Dutch gambrel, and the broken gable. The first include horses, sheep, cows, rabbits, sometimes chickens. The latter are rats, mice, bats, owls, cats.