Little House in the Big Woods,by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Table Of Content

• THE DEER IN THE WOOD.
• Little House in the Big Woods (Little House Series: Classic Stories #
• Day Fiancé: Big Ed Cancels Wedding to Liz — Without Telling Her — Marking Their 15th Split
• NY pols take aim at squatters with ‘crystal clear’ laws favoring homeowners after series of  takeovers
• GOING TO TOWN.
• DANCE AT GRANDPA'S.

Itwas so good that Laura wished they could eat it all. But most of themeat must be salted and smoked and packed away to be eaten in thewinter. Upstairs there was a large attic,pleasant to play in when the rain drummed on the roof. Downstairs wasthe small bedroom, and the big room.

THE DEER IN THE WOOD.

They chewed the bundles and the separatorswallowed them. Straw blew out at the separator's other end, and wheatpoured out of its side. There was so much work to do, so many good thingsto eat, so many new things to see. Laura was scampering and chatteringlike the squirrels, from morning to night. That night Pa brought in some ears of corn with large plump kernels. Henubbed the ears—shelling off the small, chaffy kernels at their tips.Then he shelled the rest into a large pan, until the pan was full.

Little House in the Big Woods (Little House Series: Classic Stories #

One day he noticed a bee tree and returned early to get the wash tub and milk pail to collect the honey. As spring approaches, this snug world opens upsomewhat, and Laura's view broadens. At sugaring time the Ingallses join theirextended family and friends at a party. In the summer Laura's world expandsagain as she takes her first trip to town. Autumn finds her among the extendedfamily again as they do the harvesting and canning. Constantly alert, Lauratakes in all her surroundings, but she seems content when winter closes in onceagain.

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This fills up the house with fun, music, and more tales. Laura receives a real rag doll, and all the kids get mittens and candy. Sundays are especially difficult for the youngest girl because there’s not much to do and she must be quiet. One Monday, Laura has a birthday, turning five years old.

Then Pa put a clean, greased rag on the ramrod, and while the gun barrelwas still hot he greased it well on the inside. With another clean,greased cloth he rubbed it all over, outside, until every bit of it wasoiled and sleek. After that he rubbed and polished the gunstock untilthe wood of it was bright and shining, too. After the bullets were made, Pa would take his gun down from the walland clean it. Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered alittle dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty frompowder smoke. She put this in a little pan of milk on the stove and when the milk washot she poured milk and carrot into a cloth bag.

GOING TO TOWN.

Laura and Mary carried wood and watched the fire. Itmust be hot, but not too hot, or the lard would burn. The big potssimmered and boiled, but they must not smoke. From time to time Maskimmed out the brown cracklings. She put them in a cloth and squeezedout every bit of the lard, and then she put the cracklings away.

Pa had never before gone out to get adeer and come home without one. Two men were working fast, trampling the straw and building it into astack. One man was working fast, sacking the pouring grain. The grainsof wheat poured out of the separator into a half-bushel measure, and asfast as the measure filled, the man slipped an empty one into its placeand emptied the full one into a sack. He had just time to empty it andslip it back under the spout before the other measure ran over.

When she finished a hat, Ma set it on a board to dry, shaping it nicelyas she did so, and when it dried it stayed in the shape she gave it. She thought about what the yellow jackets had done to Charley. It served him right because he hadbeen so monstrously naughty. And the bees had a right to sting him, whenhe jumped on their home.

WINTER DAYS AND WINTER NIGHTS.

Wilder, who moved often as a child but alwaysremained a country girl, conveys a strong sense of place in her writing. Thebook describes the events in and around the Ingallses' cabin in the Wisconsinwoods during the year that Laura celebrates her fifth birthday. It is the early1870s, and the area is sparsely populated with self-sufficient farmers andwoodsmen who make their own tools and find their own entertainment. At Christmas, the family is visited by relatives.

Alice and Ella and Laura in their red flannel nightgowns andPeter in his red flannel nightshirt, all ran shouting to see what he hadbrought. They played so hard all day that when night came they were too excitedto sleep. But they must sleep, or Santa Claus would not come. So theyhung their stockings by the fireplace, and said their prayers, and wentto bed—Alice and Ella and Mary and Laura all in one big bed on thefloor. Laura and Mary heard the gay ringingof sleigh bells, growing louder every moment, and then the big bobsledcame out of the woods and drove up to the gate.

Laura had never imagined so many houses, and they were so closetogether. Of course, they were much smaller than the store. One of themwas made of new boards that had not had time to get gray; it was theyellow color of newly-cut wood. He had swept the wagon boxclean and laid a clean blanket on the wagon seat. Ma, with Baby Carriein her arms, sat up on the wagon seat with Pa, and Laura and Mary sat ona board fastened across the wagon box behind the seat.

Aunt Lotty had gone, and Laura and Mary were tired and cross. They wereat the woodpile, gathering a pan of chips to kindle the fire in themorning. They always hated to pick up chips, but every day they had todo it.

As with many elements of this book, this is a first-time event for young Laura, and preparations for the women include tying corsets and putting on pretty clothing. Of course, plenty of maple candy is eaten as well. Family life for the Ingallses consists of everyone doing their duty and completing the chores they must complete to survive. While Pa traps animals and takes in wood, Ma makes bread and butter, cleans and cooks, and oversees the household. The children have their roles to play as well, as they learn the duties they will have to take on when they are older.

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It was a dark green, with a littlepattern all over it that looked like ripe strawberries. A dressmaker hadmade it, in the East, in the place where Ma came from when she marriedPa and moved out west to the Big Woods in Wisconsin. Ma had been veryfashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made herclothes. In just a little while the trees would be putting out their baby leaves,all rosy and yellow and pale green, and there would be wild flowers andbirds in the woods. All that day the sun shone, the snow melted, and little streams of waterran from the icicles, which all the time grew thinner.