The following summer is barely mentioned, then back to town for another winter. Through all the festivities, Laura tries to study, since she hopes to earn a teaching certificate as soon as she turns sixteen in order to help with Mary’s college expenses. The residents turn their attention to church services, literaries, parties, and other events held during the winter months. There are no raging blizzards and there is plenty of food and fuel. The town of De Smet is bustling this winter. Laura and Carrie return to school Miss Wilder is the new and often unpopular teacher that term. Soon afterward, the family moves back into Pa’s building in town, snug for the winter. The extra income will help to send Mary to the College for the Blind in the fall!Īt the end of the summer, Ma and Pa take Mary to Iowa to enroll in college. Laura and Pa both take jobs in town, Pa at carpentering and Laura doing hand-sewing for Mrs. The family is busy with cleaning and planting the place begins to look like a farm. It’s springtime on the Ingalls homestead, 1881.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |