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

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• The Story of Grandpa and the Panther.
• The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way.
• THE SUGAR SNOW.
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With a long knife Ma cut this mass into little squares, and let it standwhile the curd separated from the whey. Then she poured it all into acloth and let the thin, yellowish whey drain out. So Pa went again to Uncle Henry's, and came back with a piece of thelittle calf's stomach. It was like a piece of soft, grayish-whiteleather, all ridged and rough on one side. When the grass was tall and thick in the woods and the cows were givingplenty of milk, that was the time to make cheese.

The Story of Grandpa and the Panther.

Its sides were of tin, with places cut in themfor the candle-light to shine through. Ma was worried, but Pa said that by starting before sun-up and walkingvery fast all day he could get home again before dark. Very early one morning Pa strapped the bundle of furs on his shoulders,and started to walk to town. There were so many furs to carry that hecould not take his gun. Then Pa gave her a little wooden man he had whittled out of a stick, tobe company for Charlotte. Ma gave her five little cakes, one for eachyear that Laura had lived with her and Pa.

The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way.

Ma cut large slices of flaky white fish, without one bone, for Laura andMary. All they did not eatfresh was salted down in barrels for the winter. Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled thehollow log with thick, choking smoke.

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The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses werestacked on the pantry shelves. Now the potatoes and carrots, the beets and turnips and cabbages weregathered and stored in the cellar, for freezing nights had come. It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nutsand roots. Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten.He would butcher it as soon as the weather was cold enough to keep thepork frozen. "Run over to the chopping block and fetch me some of those green hickorychips—new, clean, white ones." Muskratsand mink and otter lived by the streams.

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The bedroom had a window thatclosed with a wooden shutter. The big room had two windows with glass inthe panes, and it had two doors, a front door and a back door. Each season has its work, which Laura makes attractive by the good things that result.

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Uncle George began tobreathe loudly, and he wiped sweat off his forehead. It made a loud, ringing sound in thebig room, and Uncle George joked and laughed and danced, blowing thebugle. Then Pa took his fiddle out of its box and began to play, and allthe couples stood in squares on the floor and began to dance when Pacalled the figures.

That day Pa and Ma and Laura and Mary had fresh venison for dinner. It was so good that Laura wished they could eat it all. But most of the meat must be salted and smoked and packed away to be eaten in the winter. In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Every morning as soon as she was awake Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch. Upstairs there was a large attic, pleasant to play in when the rain drummed on the roof Downstairs was the small bedroom, and the big room.

In themorning she skimmed off the cream to make into butter later. Then whenthe morning's milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk andset it all on the stove to heat. Laura was afraid that Pa must kill one of the little calves in the barn.They were so sweet. One was fawn-colored and one was red, and their hairwas so soft and their large eyes so wondering. Laura's heart beat fastwhen Ma talked to Pa about making cheese. In the summer evenings Pa did not tell stories or play the fiddle.Summer days were long, and he was tired after he had worked hard all dayin the fields.

He had bothered Pa andUncle Henry when they were hard at work. Pa could not stay to supper; he had to get home and do the milking. Thecows were already waiting, at home, and when cows are not milked on timethey do not give so much milk. He hitched up quickly and they all gotinto the wagon.

There was a patty-pan, or at least a broken cup or a saucer, for everylittle girl and boy. They all watched anxiously while Grandma ladled outthe syrup. Then somebody would haveto be unselfish and polite. Everybody made a terrific noise, shouting and yelling and stamping,cheering Grandma. Grandma jigged just a little minute more, then shestopped. Her eyes sparkled just like Pa's when helaughed.

Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top, andcut a little door on one side near the bottom. On the piece that he cutout he fastened leather hinges; then he fitted it into place, and thatwas the little door, with the bark still on it. One night her father picked her up out of bed and carried her to thewindow so that she might see the wolves. There were two of them sittingin front of the house.

When it was cool it would cut in slices, and that washeadcheese. The novel describes the homesteading skills Laura observed and began to practice during her fifth year. It does not contain the more mature (yet real) themes addressed in later books of the series (conflicts with Native Americans, serious illness, death, drought, and crop destruction). Hard work is the rule, though fun is often made in the midst of it. Laura gathers wood chips, and helps Ma and Pa when they butcher animals and preserve the meat. This is all in preparation for the upcoming winter.

Most of all, she seems to love the warm house with her father, mother,and sisters around her. Apparently this place is the secure, dependable corefor her life as well as for the novel. Pa’s fiddling, singing, and storytelling on winter nights establish him asthe reassuring center of folklore and continuity.