By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder is starting existence along with her new husband, Almanzo, of their personal little condominium. Laura is a tender pioneer spouse now, and needs to work flat out with Almanzo, farming the land round their domestic at the South Dakota prairie. quickly their child daughter, Rose, is born, and the younger relatives needs to face the hardships and triumphs encountered via such a lot of American pioneers.
And so Laura Ingalls Wilder's event as a bit pioneer lady ends, and her new existence as a pioneer spouse and mom starts. The 9 Little condo books were loved via generations of readers as either a distinct glimpse into America's frontier prior and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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T h e y are not stopping to rest on the lakes nor to feed. " For several days, the wild geese hurried southward; and then one still, sunny afternoon a dark cloud line lay 35 T H E FIRST FOUR YEARS low on the northwest horizon. It climbed swiftly, higher and higher, until the sun was suddenly overcast, and with a howl the wind came and the world was blotted out in a blur of whirling snow. Laura was in the house alone when the wind struck the northwest corner with such force the whole house jarred.
There seemed no other way than to be married suddenly because of the help it would be to have a home and housekeeper in the rush of fall work coming on. Manly's mother would understand and not be offended. It would be thought the right and sensible way to do it by the neighbors and friends, for they were all engaged in the same struggle to establish themselves in their 8 T H E FIRST FOUR YEARS homes on the new prairie land. And so on Thursday, the twenty-fifth of August, at ten o'clock in the morning, the quickstepping brown horses and the buggy with the shining top flashed around the corner at Pearson's livery barn, came swiftly over the half mile, and drew up at the door of the little claim house in its hollow square of young cottonwoods.
There is gold on the farm, boys—: If only you'll shovel it out. (Chorus:) "Don't be in a hurry to go! Don't be in a hurry to go! " 22 T H E FIRST FOUR YEARS And Laura thought of the golden wheat stored in the homestead claim shanty and she was glad. The drives were short these days for the plowing was hard work for pretty, quick-stepping Skip and Barnum, the driving team. Manly said they were not large enough to do all the breaking of the new sod land. One day he came home from town leading two large horses hitched behind the wagon, and they were drawing a new sulky breaking plow.