t snoter cold. every moing pa took raps and ting traps for muskrats and mink along traps for foxes and out traps o get a fat bear before t into ter.

one moing ook t a bear. laura and mary jumped tip and doed:

“i tick! i tick!

mary did not know ick is.

rap in ree covered ree.

t killed t up to eat it. pa said tanding up on its s pa as they were hands.

pa s t was.

“so i just broug; pa said.

ty of fres to last for a long time. ts t tle sside t thaw.

ed fres for dinner pa took t off a c or pork. but t pork, or t for tic.

t coming till it ed and banked against t in beautiful pictures of trees and flo jack frost came in t and made tures, jack frost tle man all snotering ed cap and soft s made of deer-skin. ens ures.

laura and mary o take mas tty pattes of circles in t on t tures t jack frost .

to t, te frost melted and ran in drops dos of snodoors and t trees standing bare and black, making te snow.

laura and mary he work.

every moing to laura alle cup and plate.

by time t arundle bed anding one on eacraigucked t t and t trundle bed into its place under the big bed.

after t belonged to t day. eacs oo say:

“asuesday, mend on ednesday, curday, rest on sunday.”

laura liked t of all the week.

in er t yello ter c so pretty. ma liked everytable to be pretty, so in tertime ster.

after s tall crockery c it near tove to ed it on ttom of

tin pan t pa across til s all ted up t, juicy mound of grated carrot.

s ttle pan of milk on tove and o a clot yelloo t colored all tter would be yellow.

laura and mary o eat t 1 after t. mary t s to because stler. but ma said t divide it evenly. it was very good.

it in t. ttle round he hole.

sime. mary could sometimes ced, but too heavy for laura.

at first ttle er a long time, to look grainy. to appear tiny grains of yelloter.

ook off tter in a golden lump, drotermilk. took out to a imes in cold er, tuing it over and over and il ter ran clear. after t sed it.

no part of tter. on ttom of tter-mold ure of a strarawberry leaves.

itter tigo til it ued it upside-doe, and pustom. ttle, firm pat of golden butter came out, ras leaves molded on top.

laura and mary ctle butterpats, eacs straop, dropped on to te as ma put all tter ttermilk on saturdays, o a little loaf. t of cookie dougoo, to make little cookies, and once laura even made a pie in ty-pan.

after times cut paper dolls for t t of stiff s of colored paper s dresses and s, ribbons and laces, so t laura and mary could dress tifully.

but, t time of all night, when pa came home.

ramping tiny icicles ac and mittens, and call: “tle of s cider half drunk up? “

t was laura, because she was so small.

laura and mary o climb on t on and cap and mittens again and go out to do ty of he fire.

sometimes, raps y, or ime to play h laura and mary.

one game tanding it all up on end. trying to get t get away.

t dodging and running, but once t tove. t get past pa, and t.