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At last, when it was getting dark, Pa said again, “Come here, Laura” His voice was kind, and when Laura caed her close She sat in the crook of his ar brohiskers partly covering her eyes, and everything was all right again

She told Pa all about it, and she asked hiolden hair better than brown, do you?”

Pa’s blue eyes shone down at her, and he said, “Well, Laura, my hair is brown”

She had not thought of that Pa’s hair was brown, and his whiskers were brown, and she thought broas a lovely color But she was glad that Mary had had to gather all the chips

In the sus Pa did not tell stories or play the fiddle Su, and he was tired after he had worked hard all day in the fields

Ma was busy, too Laura and Mary helped her weed the garden, and they helped her feed the calves and the hens They gathered the eggs, and they helped make cheese

When the grass was tall and thick in the woods and the coere giving plenty of milk, that was the time to make cheese

Somebody must kill a calf, for cheese could not becalf’s sto, so that it had never eaten anything but milk

Laura was afraid that Pa must kill one of the little calves in the barn They were so sweet One was fawn-colored and one was red, and their hair was so soft and their large eyes so wondering Laura’s heart beat fast when Ma talked to Pa aboutcheese

Pa would not kill either of his calves, because they were heifers and would grow into cows He went to Grandpa’s and to Uncle Henry’s, to talk about the cheese, and Uncle Henry said he would kill one of his calves There would be enough rennet for Aunt Polly and Grandma and Ma

So Pa went again to Uncle Henry’s, and came back with a piece of the little calf’s storayish-white leather, all ridged and rough on one side

When the coereshe skimmed off the crea’s milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk and set it all on the stove to heat

A bit of the rennet, tied in a cloth, was soaking in ater

When the h, Ma squeezed every drop of water from the rennet in the cloth, and she poured the water into the milk She stirred it well and left it in a warm place by the stove In a little while it thickened into a smooth, quivery mass

With a long knife Ma cut this mass into little squares, and let it stand while the curd separated from the whey Then she poured it all into a cloth and let the thin, yellohey drain out