Little House in the Big Woods (The Little House on the Prairie)

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More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Just then one of the dancing little bits of light from the lantern jumped between the bars of the gate, and Laura saw long, shaggy, black fur, and two little, glittering eyes. All the shadows were thin and blue, and every little curve of snowdrifts and every little track in the snow had a shadow. Then they all looked at each other's mittens, and tried on their own, and Peter bit a large piece out of his stick of candy, but Alice and Ella and Mary and Laura licked theirs, to make it last longer.

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After dinner their father sat down to read the Bible, and Grandpa and James and George sat as still as mice on their bench with their catechism.Pa shut the door, and a little smoke squeezed through the crack around it and a little smoke came out through the roof, but most of it was shut in with the meat. A dressmaker had made it, in the East, in the place where Ma came from when she married Pa and moved out west to the Big Woods in Wisconsin. Laura looked at him but she did not say anything, and when Uncle George stopped blowing the bugle she ran into the house. The novel describes the homesteading skills Laura observed and began to practice during her fifth year.

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Pa laid one of these bits of greasy cloth over the muzzle of the gun, put one of the shiny new bullets on it, and with the ramrod he pushed the bullet and the cloth down the gun barrel. Then close by the warm stove, behind a screen made of a blanket over two chairs, Ma bathed Laura, and then she bathed Mary. Every day Grandpa puts on his boots and his warm coat and his fur cap and he goes out into the snowy woods and gathers the sap. From each end hung a chain with a hook, and on each hook hung a big wooden bucket full of hot maple syrup. With a barrel on a sled, he drives from tree to tree and empties the sap from the buckets into the barrel.

Then he went into the maple woods and with the bit he bored a hole in each maple tree, and he hammered the round end of the little trough into the hole, and he set a cedar bucket on the ground under the flat end. The first in a nine-book series, the autobiographical narrative relates the story of a family of homesteading pioneers living and laboring in Wisconsin. One of the little boards he shaped in a lovely curve, and around its edges he carved leaves and flowers and stars, and through it he cut crescent moons and curlicues. There are also additional links to Little House recipes, song lyrics from the book and other activities such as a picnic on “Lake Pepin. He settled Laura and Mary more comfortably on his knees and he said, "I'll tell you about Grandpa and the panther.

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Eliza thought he was asleep, and she made up her mind to try to slip past him and get to the spring for some water. Aunt Docia kept measuring her waist with her hands, and at last she gasped, "I guess that's the best you can do. Then he dropped on all fours and, growling, he chased Laura and Mary all around the room, trying to get them cornered where they couldn't get away. In those days and in that place, children did not say Father and Mother, nor Mamma and Papa, as they do now.When smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. Laura loved to look at the lamp, with its glass chimney so clean and sparkling, its yellow flame burning so steadily, and its bowl of clear kerosene colored red by the bits of flannel. Only Charles and Caroline then moved to Kansas, where they stayed for just one year, for reasons we know nothing about. The grounds are maintained during the warm seasons, though the driveway is not regularly plowed in the winter.

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Laura looked at him all the time she was eating her hasty pudding, because she had heard Pa say to Ma that he was wild.They took off the paper wrappings, and each had a little, hard, brown cake, with beautifully crinkled edges. The small, leaping tracks of cottontail rabbits, the tiny tracks of field mice, and the feather-stitching tracks of snowbirds.