Page 26 (2/2)

So Laura gathered up the pebbles, put them in the pocket, and carried the pocket in her lap She did not reedy little girl that she took more than she could carry away

Nothing like that ever happened to Mary Mary was a good little girl who always kept her dress clean and neat and olden curls, and her candy heart had a poem on it

Mary looked very good and sweet, unru on the board beside Laura Laura did not think it was fair

But it had been a wonderful day, the ht about the beautiful lake, and the town she had seen, and the big store full of so s She held the pebbles carefully in her lap, and her candy heart wrapped carefully in her handkerchief until she got home and could put it away to keep always It was too pretty to eat

The wagon jolted along on the ho Woods The sun set, and the woods grew darker, but before the last of the twilight was gone the un

The soft h the treetops and ht and shade on the road ahead The horses’ hoofs made a cheerful clippety-clop

Laura and Mary did not say anything because they were very tired, and Ma sat silently holding Baby Carrie, sleeping in her ar softly:

“Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home”

Chapter 10

Summertime

Noas su So 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 er Pa and Ma and the visitor would sit talking a little while before they went back to work

Soo across the road and down the hill, to see Mrs Peterson The Petersons had just moved 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