1.   They ran, on rubbery legs, through an open gate and across a dirt yard towards the lit window.

2.   Back and forth he goes across the dirt yard.

3.   But it swirls, too, around most homes in Soweto and also around the dirt yards and corrugated metal shacks of squatter camps.

4.   Chickens run free in the dirt yard, and a mule is tethered to a pole near the fence.

5.   He sees the dirt yard, still going, sees the fence, the gate.

6.   His mama took pride in sweeping the dirt yard he played in as a kid.

7.   How about a planned community with all dirt yards?

8.   If there was a social stigma to dirt yards nobody ever mentioned it.

9.   Several chickens, a mule and a large ox crowd a tiny dirt front yard.

10.   You could bounce a basketball on a dirt yard.