Little House in the Big Woods (The Little House on the Prairie)

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Sadly, as with time what often happens has done so; there have been many changes. The “big woods” have mostly been harvested for one reason or another. Still scenic and pretty though. The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. In those days and in that place, children did not say Father and Mother, nor Mamma and Papa, as they do now. A big boy nine years old is old enough to remember to mind," he said. "There's a good reason for what I tell you to do," he said, "and if you'll do as you're told, no harm will come to you."

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The Ingallses lived in Burr Oak, Iowa. Laura Ingalls Wilder did not write a children's book about this time of her life, however, she did write about it in her autobiography Pioneer Girl.

But Laura and Mary were never afraid when Pa went alone into the Big Woods. They knew he could always kill bears and panthers with the first shot.

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In the Big Woods the snow was beginning to thaw. Bits of it dropped from the branches of the trees and made little holes in the softening snowbanks below. At noon all the big icicles along the eaves of the little house quivered and sparkled in the sunshine, and drops of water hung trembling at their tips. Allow the molasses to harden from the cold. If you wish, you can return it to the freezer for a few minutes to blast chill it. The Ingallses returned to Pepin, Wisconsin. This is when and where Little House in the Big Woodstook place. Optional: You can always add eyes to your doll with some basic buttons stitched on, or even add hair by gluing on pieces of yarn or string to the head of the doll.

Then he took his gun, and slinging his ax on his shoulder he went away to the clearing to cut down some more trees.

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The shower room has an enclosed shower unit, toilet and and hand basin. Towels are provided but please bring your own beach towels if you wish to take them with you on day trips. The first snow came, and the bitter cold. Every morning Pa took his gun and his traps and was gone all day in the Big Woods, setting the small traps for muskrats and mink along the creeks, the middle-sized traps for foxes and wolves in the woods. He set out the big bear traps hoping to get a fat bear before they all went into their dens for the winter. Laura and Mary watched, breathless, one on each side of Ma, while the golden little butter-pats, each with its strawberry on the top, dropped on to the plate as Ma put all the butter through the mold. Then Ma gave them each a drink of good, fresh buttermilk. August 25: Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder married in De Smet, Dakota Territory. ( These Happy Golden Years) Pa kept pouring in more water and washing the gun barrel with the cloth on the ramrod until the water ran out clear. Then the gun was clean. The water must always be boiling, so that the heated steel would dry instantly.

The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly all winter long. The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. The deer and the rabbits would be shy and swift. Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall. Every Sunday Mary and Laura were dressed from the skin out in their best clothes, with fresh ribbons in their hair. They were very clean, because they had their baths on Saturday night. Pa had shot the deer the day before and Laura had been asleep when he brought them home at night and hung them high in the trees so the wolves could not get the meat. When the cream was ready, Ma scalded the long wooden churn-dash, put it in the churn, and dropped the wooden churn-cover over it. The churn cover had a little round hole in the middle, and Ma moved the dash up and down, up and down, through the hole.