Little House in the Big Woods
“Sometimes Uncle Henry, or Uncle George, or Grandpa, came riding out of the Big Woods to see Pa.
Ma would come to the door and ask how all the folks were, and she would say: “Charles is in the clearing.” Then she would cook more dinner than usual, and dinner time would be longer. Pa and Ma and the visitor would sit talking a little while before they went back to work.
Sometimes Ma let Laura and Mary go across the road and down the hill, to see Mrs.
Peterson. The Petersons had just mo...ved in.
Their house was new, and always very neat, because Mrs. Peterson had no little girls to muss it up. She was a Swede, and she let Laura and Mary look at the pretty things she had brought from Sweden—laces, and colored embroideries, and china.
Mrs. Peterson talked Swedish to them, and they talked English to her, and they under-stood each other perfectly. She always gave them each a cookie when they left, and they nibbled the cookies very slowly while they walked home.MoreLess
Ma would come to the door and ask how all the folks were, and she would say: “Charles is in the clearing.” Then she would cook more dinner than usual, and dinner time would be longer. Pa and Ma and the visitor would sit talking a little while before they went back to work.
Sometimes Ma let Laura and Mary go across the road and down the hill, to see Mrs.
Peterson. The Petersons had just mo...ved in.
Their house was new, and always very neat, because Mrs. Peterson had no little girls to muss it up. She was a Swede, and she let Laura and Mary look at the pretty things she had brought from Sweden—laces, and colored embroideries, and china.
Mrs. Peterson talked Swedish to them, and they talked English to her, and they under-stood each other perfectly. She always gave them each a cookie when they left, and they nibbled the cookies very slowly while they walked home.MoreLess
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