Little House In The Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder House Pepin WI

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• TWO BIG BEARS.
• The Story of Pa and the Voice in the Woods.
• The Story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig.
• The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way.
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Each season has its work, which Laura makes attractive by the good things that result. In the spring, the cow has a calf, so there is milk, butter and cheese. Everyday housework is also described in detail. Adaptations include a 1982 Broadway musical, Prairie, and a popular NBC-TVseries, Little House on the Prairie, which began in 1974, starringMichael Landon as Pa and Melissa Gilbert as Laura. Summer pageants, adaptedfrom the books, are presented in modern-day De Smet and Mansfield. A reading ofLittle House in the Big Woods was recorded by Julie Harris for Pathwaysof Sound in 1976.

TWO BIG BEARS.

"Yes," Pa said, "he's very glad. He's going to sugar off again nextMonday, and he says we must all come." "Well, when the maple sap came to the hole in the tree, it ran out ofthe tree, down the little trough and into the bucket." "Here, Caroline," he said, handing the package and the bucket to Ma, andthen he put the gun on its hooks over the door. Grandpa lived far away in the Big Woods, where the trees were closertogether and larger.

The Story of Pa and the Voice in the Woods.

They knelt down by the trundlebed and said their prayers. When Laura walked behind Ma on the path to the barn, the little bits ofcandle-light from the lantern leaped all around her on the snow. The woods were dark, but there was a graylight on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars.The stars did not look as warm and bright as the little lights that camefrom the lantern. "Then just as the sled was swooping toward the house, a big black pigstepped out of the woods. He walked into the middle of the road andstood there.

The Story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig.

"And if I'd dropped that bucket and bundle, Iwouldn't have had to shoot him. I could have stood and watched him eatwhat's in them and lick his chops." The fire had gone to coals on the hearth, and Padid not build it up. All around the little house, in the Big Woods,there were little sounds of falling snow, and from the eaves there wasthe drip, drip of the melting icicles. Ma kissed them both, and tucked the covers in around them. They laythere awhile, looking at Ma's smooth, parted hair and her hands busywith sewing in the lamplight. Her needle made little clicking soundsagainst her thimble and then the thread went softly, swish!

The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way.

Then he and Pahitched all the other horses, eight of them, to the smaller machine.They hitched each team to the end of a long stick that came out from thecenter of the machine. A long iron rod lay along the ground, from thismachine to the big machine. Everyone was busy now, for all the garden vegetables must be storedaway. After she was in the trundle bed that night, Laura lay and listened tothe rain drumming on the roof and strewing from the eaves, and shethought about what Pa had said. It was dark that night when Pa and Uncle Henry came from the field.

"Careful there, Billy! Easy, boy! Youcan't go but so fast no how." Their pulling made the tumbling rod keep rolling over, and the rod movedthe machinery of the separator, which stood beside the stack of wheat. A man sat on top of the horsepower, and when everything was ready heclucked to the horses, and they began to go. They walked around him in acircle, each team pulling on the long stick to which it was hitched, andfollowing the team ahead. As they went around, they stepped carefullyover the tumbling rod, which was tumbling over and over on the ground. Uncle Henry came riding up and tied his horse to a tree.

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"You shouldn't frighten the children so, Charles," Ma said. Sometimes, when Pa had walked his trap-lines quickly because the trapswere empty, or when he had got some game sooner than usual, he wouldcome home early. Then he would have time to play with Laura and Mary. But the best time of all was at night, when Pa came home. At first the splashes of cream showed thick and smooth around the littlehole. Then Ma churned moreslowly, and on the dash there began to appear tiny grains of yellowbutter.

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"And every time they fired em off, It took a horn of powder, It made anoise like father's gun, Only a nation louder." "And there he saw some great big guns, Big as a log of maple, And everytime they turned em round, It took two yoke of cattle. Pa would run his fingers throughhis thick, brown hair, standing it all up on end. Then he dropped on allfours and, growling, he chased Laura and Mary all around the room,trying to get them cornered where they couldn't get away. With the paddle Ma packed butter tightly into the mold until it wasfull.

"There you have it!" said Pa. "She was a mean, tight-fisted woman. Ifshe hadn't skimmed all the milk, a little cream would have run off inthe whey, and Old Grimes might have staggered along. "Is the moon really made of green cheese?" Laura asked, and Ma laughed. Then Ma wrapped each cheese in paper and laid it away on the high shelf.There was nothing more to do with it but eat it. All day long the round board settled slowly under the weight of therock, and whey pressed out and ran down the grooves of the board intothe pail. When no more whey dripped from the cloth, Ma emptied the curd into a bigpan and salted it turning and mixing it well. Laura and Mary helped her weed the garden, and theyhelped her feed the calves and the hens.

They had used store soap,not the slimy, soft, dark brown soap that Grandma made and kept in a bigjar to use for common every day. She stood by the stove, sifting the yellow corn meal from her fingersinto a kettle of boiling, salted water. She stirred the water all thetime with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettlewas full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass.

Rabbits stood up in the road ahead, their little front paws danglingdown and their noses sniffing, and the sun shone through their tall,twitching ears. Then they bounded away, with a flash of little whitetail. Twice Laura and Mary saw deer looking at them with their large,dark eyes, from the shadows among the trees.

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When all the trading was done, the storekeeper gave Mary and Laura eacha piece of candy. They were so astonished and so pleased that they juststood looking at their candies. Pa unhitched the horsesand tied one to each side of the wagon box. Then he took Laura and Maryby the hand, and Ma came beside them carrying Baby Carrie.