![]() ![]() Pa trades labor with other farmers so that his own crops will be harvested faster when it is time. That summer and fall, the Ingalls again plant a garden and fields, and store food for the winter. Everyday housework is also described in detail. In the spring, the cow has a calf, so there is milk, butter and cheese. Laura remembered that sugaring off, and the dance that followed, for the rest of her life.Įach season has its work, which Laura makes attractive by the good things that result. ![]() They return home with buckets of syrup, enough to last the year. Later that winter, the Ingalls go to Grandma Ingalls’ house and have a “sugaring off,” when they harvest sap and make maple syrup. The cousins come for Christmas that year, and Laura receives a rag doll, which she names Charlotte. ![]() Fall is a very busy time, because the harvest from the garden and fields must be brought in as well. This is all in preparation for the upcoming winter. Laura gathers wood chips, and helps Ma and Pa when they butcher animals and preserve the meat. Hard work is the rule, though fun is often made in the midst of it. ![]() It does not contain the more mature (yet real) themes addressed in later books of the series (danger from American Indians, serious illness, death, drought, and crop destruction). The novel describes the homesteading skills Laura observed and began to practice during her fifth year. Class=notpageimage| Location of the "Little House in the Big Woods" in Wisconsin ![]()
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