t spring o ts of it dropped from trees and made little ening sno noon all ttle er rembling at tips.

pa said go to too trade trapping all er.

so one evening oget as big as pa.

very early one moing pa strapped tarted to o too carry t take his gun.

ma pa said t by starting before sun-up and all day home again before dark.

t toore. toget t in a toore full of candy and calico and ot, and salt, and store sugar.

t pa rade o torekeeper for beautiful toing ts reetops and no more drops fell from tips of to ch eagerly for pa.

t of sig come. ma started supper and set table, but come. it ime to do till come.

ma said t laura mighe cow.

laura could carry te. so laura put on and ma buttoned it up.

and laura put o tens t ring around ed te.

laura o be e very carefully.

its sides in, in t to shrough.

o ttle bits of candle-lige leaped all around yet quite dark. t t on tars. i pat stars. tars did not look as le lig came from te.

laura o see tanding at te. ma oo.

it oo early in to be let out in to eat grass. s sometimes on tall open so so ting for them.

ma up to te, and pus it to open it. but it did not tanding against it. ma said, “sukey, get over! “ se and slapped sukeys shoulder.

just ttle bits of lige jumped bete, and laura satle, glittering eyes.

sukey , brown fur. sukey le eyes.

ma said, “laura, o the house.”

so laura tued around and began to o ce and all, and ran. ma ran o t;ma, a bear?

“yes, laura,“ ma said. “it was a bear.”

laura began to cry. so ma and sobbed, “o sukey? “

“no,“ ma said, ;sukey is safe in to keep bears out. no, t get in and eat sukey. “

laura felt better t;but us, couldnt ; she asked.

“ us,“ ma said. “you o do exactly as i told you, and to do it quickly, asking why.”

ma rembling, and so laugtle. “to t; s;ive slapped a bear!

t supper on table for laura and mary. pa come yet. come.

laura and mary o trundle bed.

ma sat by ts. till and strange, pa.

laura listened to t crying as t in tened.

ma finis. laura sa to tcring ts nobody could get in from outside unless sed tcook carrie, all limp and sleeping, out of the big bed.

s laura and mary ill a;go to sleep, girls. everyt. pa will be he moing.”

t back to tly and holding baby carrie her arms.

sting tip late, ing for pa, and laura and marv meant to stay aoo, till at last t to sleep.

in t candy for laura and mary, and tty calico to make tte on a tle golden-bros on it. ma oo; it e patte all over it.

t suc o get tiful presents.

tracks of t sukey and the horses were safe inside.

all t day ted, and little streams of er ran from time gre t nigracks snow.

after supper pa took laura and mary on ory to tell them.