after ttercups and violets, tiny starry grassflowers were everywhere.

as soon as to be alloo run barefoot. at first t only run out around t. next day t a all day long.

every nigo to bed. under ts t heir faces.

trees in front of tree, and lauras playree. t grass made a green carpet for or ts of the blue sky.

pa made a soug to a large, lo so be unselfis mary s o.

mary o play iful cup of it. cte and nettie, and ttle e and nettie, and ttle leaf cups and saucers to set on table. table h rock.

sukey and rosie, tued loose in to eat ttle calves in ttle pigs he pigpen.

in t year, pa umps and putting in o laura:

“ do you today?”

s guess.

“ell,“ pa said. “ tood a deer. s ; “a baby deer!“ laura and mary guessed togetheir hands.

“yes,“ pa said, “ ty little test fa iniest feet, not muc tle legs, and test muzzle.

“it stood t me s large, soft eyes, afraid at all.”

“you s a little baby deer, ; laura said.

“no, never!“ ;nor its ma, nor its pa. no more ing, noill all ttle fres till fall.”

pa said t as soon as o tooo. they were old enough now.

ted, and next day tried to play going to to do it very quite sure oore in to tore.

nearly every day after t, cte and nettle o to laura and mary al;no, dear, you cant go t year, if you are good, then you can go.”

t pa said, “ell go to toomorrow.

t nig up to tig of rag. ttle bumps all over

tued on their hair would be curly.

ted t t go to sleep at once. ma sitting as usual. sting everyt and laying out t stockings and petticoats and dresses, and pas good s, and tle purple flo.

t t. it iful, clear spring moing.

ma and s on tockings and s on t dresses-marys ctoned laura up ttoned mary.

ma took t into long, round curls t t t dreadfully. marys ifully golden, but lauras -colored brown.

ied ts under tened ting on e.

ill t t on t. ma, up on t on a board fastened across t.

time , cool smells came out of the leafy woods.

rabbits stood up in ttle front paall, tctle ail. t trees.

it o too he shore of lake pepin.

after a long time laura began to see glimpses of blue er betrees. tued to soft sand. t deep do and ted. often pa stopped to rest for a fees.

t once t of t to thing

but flat, blue er. very far aer met, and there was a darker blue line.

t ty space all around s small and frig pa and ma here.

suddenly t. t overy sky, and tood back from the big oods seemed smaller under so much sky.

pa stopped tued around on t. ed ah his whip.

“t; ;town of pepin.”

laura stood up on toohere were so many houses.

rig big building. t ore, pa told made of logs. it . beore t home.

standing among tumps, t.

t made of logs, etore.

laura ogetore. one of t ime to get gray; it wood.

people monday, some woman a wasumps by her house.

several girls and boys ore and tump to t stump and sing.