Little Town On the Prairie
“The y wore their best sprigged calico dresses, for Ma said they would out-grow them before next summer, anyway. The y carried their school books under their arms, and Laura carried their tin dinner pail.
The coolness of night still lingered in the early sunlight. Under the high blue sky the green of the prairie was fading to soft brown and mauve. A little wind wandered over it carrying the fragrance of ripening grasses and the pungent smell of wild sunflowers. All along the road the yellow ...blossoms were nodding, and in its grassy middle they struck with soft thumps against the swinging dinner pail. Laura walked in one wheel track, and Carrie in the other.
“Oh, I do hope Miss Wilder will be a good teacher,”
said Carrie. “Do you think so?”
“Pa must think so, he's on the school board,” Laura pointed out. “Though maybe they hired her because she's the Wilder boy's sister. Oh, Carrie, remember those beautiful brown horses?”MoreLess
The coolness of night still lingered in the early sunlight. Under the high blue sky the green of the prairie was fading to soft brown and mauve. A little wind wandered over it carrying the fragrance of ripening grasses and the pungent smell of wild sunflowers. All along the road the yellow ...blossoms were nodding, and in its grassy middle they struck with soft thumps against the swinging dinner pail. Laura walked in one wheel track, and Carrie in the other.
“Oh, I do hope Miss Wilder will be a good teacher,”
said Carrie. “Do you think so?”
“Pa must think so, he's on the school board,” Laura pointed out. “Though maybe they hired her because she's the Wilder boy's sister. Oh, Carrie, remember those beautiful brown horses?”MoreLess
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