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When at last the corn was done, Ma put all the soft, white kernels in abig jar in the pantry. Then at last, they had hulled corn and milk forsupper. Often she poured the water off, and filled the tub again with buckets ofwater from the spring. She kept on rubbing and scrubbing the cornbetween her hands, and changing the water, until every hull came off andwas washed away. For supper, now, they often had hulled corn and milk. It was so good that Laura could hardly wait for the corn to beready, after Ma started to hull it.
Kitchen & dining
The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly all winter long. The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. The deer and the rabbits would be shy and swift. Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall. All around the house was a crooked rail fence, to keep the bears and the deer away. At night, when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed, she listened and could not hear anything at all but the sound of the trees whispering together.
DANCE AT GRANDPA'S.
"But appearances are deceiving." Then while she wiped all thegreen cheeses and rubbed them with butter, she told them about the dead,cold moon that is like a little world on which nothing grows. Every morning she took the new cheese out of the press, and trimmed itsmooth. She sewed a cloth tightly around it, and rubbed the cloth allover with fresh butter. Then she put the cheese on a shelf in thepantry. Under the cherry tree outside the back door Pa had put up the board topress the cheese on.
The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way.
Underthe hems of their skirts their ankles and their feet were as brown astheir faces. As soon as the days were warm, Laura and Mary begged to be allowed torun barefoot. At first they might only run out around the woodpile andback, in their bare feet. Next day they could run farther, and soontheir shoes were oiled and put away and they ran barefoot all day long. The sun was warm, and the trotting horses threw up bits of muddy snowwith their hoofs. Behind the sled Laura could see their footprints, andevery footprint had gone through the thin snow into the mud.
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The Civil War has only recentlyended, and the great homesteading settlements of the Great Plains and Rockieshave begun. This larger world will affect Laura's life when her family joinsthe westward movement. But for now, in this book, the big world does not enterLaura's consciousness. For example, she knows that her Uncle George has been asoldier and that he has become a little "wild" as a result of his armyexperiences. But all she really knows or cares about is that he plays the bugleand is fun to dance with.
After a great many days, the cheese was ripe, and there was a hardrind all over it. But it had been a wonderful day, the most wonderful day in her wholelife. She thought about the beautiful lake, and the town she had seen,and the big store full of so many things.
She held the pebbles carefullyin her lap, and her candy heart wrapped carefully in her handkerchiefuntil she got home and could put it away to keep always. 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. Mary had a cracked saucer to play with, and Laura had a beautiful cupwith only one big piece broken out of it. Grandma stood by the brass kettle and with the big wooden spoon shepoured hot syrup on each plate of snow.
THE SUGAR SNOW.
It was a pale brown sugar,not dark brown like the maple sugar Ma used for every day. All along one side of it wereshelves full of colored prints and calicos. There were beautiful pinksand blues and reds and browns and purples. On the floor along the sidesof the plank counters there were kegs of nails, and kegs of round, grayshot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy. There were sacks ofsalt, and sacks of store sugar.
The Story of Grandpa's Sled and the Pig.
The little pieces of meat, lean and fat, that had been cut off the largepieces, Ma chopped and chopped until it was all chopped fine. Sheseasoned it with salt and pepper and with dried sage leaves from thegarden. Then with her hands she tossed and turned it until it was wellmixed, and she molded it into balls.
Very far away,the sky and the water met, and there was a darker blue line. "A baby deer!" Laura and Mary guessed together, clasping their hands. Every night they had to wash their feet before they went to bed.
There are detailed descriptions of the chores, from molding bullets to making cream. The family also has playtimes and stories, many of which impart lessons to the young girls. The days were growing shorter and the nights were cooler.
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