In the spring, Laura sees the town of Pepin for the first time. Best of all is the sugaring-off in Grandpa and Grandma’s big log house deep in the Big Woods, with music and dancing and plenty of good food.Ī Visit to Town. Uncle Peter’s family comes for Christmas, and the Ingalls family shares harvest-time with Uncle Henry’s family. Even though the Ingalls family seems isolated, there are plenty of family members close enough to visit. Then Pa plays the fiddle and sings.įamily Visitors. The best time of all is at night, when Pa comes home from hunting or trapping and he plays games with the girls or settles them on his knees before the fire and tells them stories – stories about when he was a little boy or even when his own father was young. Ma makes paper dolls for them, they bake cookies, and they use Ma’s thimble to make patterns in the frost on the window. Laura and Mary play with their dolls in the spacious attic. Everything from butchering to bullet-making is seen through five-year-old Laura’s eyes. The family gets ready for winter through hunting, harvesting, preserving and storing of provisions. Charles and Caroline Ingalls live in the Big Woods of Wisconsin with daughters Mary, Laura, and baby Carrie.
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