As they move into the summer months, Ma gardens and Pa hunts and does fieldwork. Another day, wolves stand outside the house and howl.Īs winter slowly thaws into spring, the family’s everyday life turns toward making maple sugar and going to a dance at their grandparents’ house. Laura is with Ma and has to run to the house for safety. She tries to get it into the barn, until she realizes that it is a bear standing on all fours. One night during the winter when Pa is away, Ma thinks a cow is out of the barn. The family has a healthy fear of them, but when Pa is able to kill a bear, they have fresh meat for a while. The woods they live in are home to many bears and wolves. Sometimes they make paper dolls together. Ma cooks, cleans and takes care of the girls. Pa’s chores include hunting for fresh meat, trapping for furs, taking care of their livestock and cleaning his gun. During the cold months, Pa and Ma do their chores during the day, and Pa plays his fiddle, plays with his girls or tells stories in the evenings. Once the family has made, hunted for or stored enough food, their busy lives relax a little, and autumn turns into winter. In the autumn, Pa and Ma put up food for the winter. The book details one full year of a family’s experiences as homesteaders through the eyes of a 5-year-old Laura. In 1871, Laura Ingalls, older sister, Mary, and Baby Carries live with Ma and Pa in a log cabin in a large Wisconsin woods not too far from Pa’s parents.
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