Outside was Where We lived

　　We never had visitors, ever. Susie had no friends. When I was with my mother and father I was outside all day, helping my father with animals, helping my mother with the corn, playing with my cousins. Outside was where we lived. There were no walls to the church or the schoolhouse; we only went into the house to sleep. People drifted from one hut to another. "Hodi, hodi," they would call, picking their feet over the chickens, and they would come and sit around the cooking pots and talk and talk. Oh, Bibi!

The Girl Who Saw Lions, P135~136
Berlie Dorherty
ISBN 978-1-59643-377-9