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.    day t a all day long.

        Every nigo    to bed. Us 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 aie, and ttle e aie, and ttle leaf cups and saucers to set on table. table h rock.

        Sukey and Rosie, turned 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 i feet, not muc tle legs, a 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, a day tried to play going to to do it very    quite sure oore in to tore.

        Nearly every day after t, Cte ale o to Laura and Mary al;No, dear, you t go t year, if yood, then you    go.”

        t Pa said, "ell go to toomorrow.

        t nig    up to    tig . ttle bumps all over

        turned on their hair would be curly.

        ted t t go to sleep at once. Ma    sitting    as usual. Sting everyt and laying out t stogs aicoats and dresses, and Pas good s, and tle purple flo.

        t t. It iful, clear spring m.

        Ma    and s on togs and s on t dresses-Marys ed Laura up ttoned Mary.

        Ma took t into long, round curls t    t t dreadfully. Marys ifully golden, but Lauras -colored brown.

        ied ts ueing on    e.

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

        time , ells 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. turo soft sand. t deep do and ted. Often Pa stopped to rest for a fees.

        t o 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 turned 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 s by her house.

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

        "ell, ts Pepin," Pa said.

        Laura just nodded    say a er a on.

        t tcied oo eacook Laura and Mary by the hand, and Ma came beside

        to tore. tops of Lauras shoes.

        tform in front of tore, and at one end of it steps    up to it out of t ing so fast t seps. Srembling all over.

        tore to rade    in, torekeeper kne from beer and spoke to o Ma, and to sheir manners.

        Mary said, "; but Laura could not say anything.

        torekeeper said to Pa and Ma, "ts a pretty little girl youve got t; and     say anyt Laura, or about hey were ugly and brown.

        tore o look at. All along one side of it iful pinks and blues and reds and broers t, and t, and sacks of store sugar.

        In tore ering brigeel ax ing knives and skinning knives and butd little boots, big stle shoes.

        Laura could    seen all t    store. S knohe world.

        Pa and Ma traded for a long time. torekeeper took dos and bolts of beautiful calicos and spread t for Ma to finger and look at and price. Laura and Mary looked, but must not tou tier t, and t know how Ma could ever choose.

        Ma s of caliake ss for Pa, and a piece of broo make    some o make ss and underwear.

        Pa got enougo make a neron. Ma said:

        "O really .”

        But Pa laug pick it out, or    urkey red piece tern. Ma smiled and flus a pattern of rosebuds and leaves on a soft, fawn-cround.

        t for obacoke in    a pound of tea, and a little paper package of store sugar to     dark brohe maple sugar Ma used for every day.

        rading orekeeper gave Mary and Laura eais t stood looking at t;thank you.”

        Laura could not speak. Everybody ing, and s make a sound. Ma o ask her:

        " do you say, Laura?

        t;thank you.”

        After t t out of tore. Bote, and flat and t-sing on tters. Ma read it for them. Marys said:

        Roses are red,    Violets are blue, Sugar is s,    And so are you.

        Lauras said only: Ss to t.

        tly ting han Marys.

        t back to ttom of ts    for the piic box.

        t on te bread and butter and c t and slid back    hissing sound.

        After dinner, Pa    back to tore to talk ail s to sleep. But Laura and Mary ran along tty pebbles t il th.

        t in the Big oods.

        ty one, Laura put , and ttier t, t s full. to tc ime to go home.

        Laura iful pebbles in . But hing happened.

        tore    rig of    fell, and ttom of the wagon box.

        Laura cried because sorn    dress.

        Ma gave Carrie to Pa and came quickly to look at torn place. t .

        "St, Laura," s;I    fix it." S t torn at all, nor t. t tle bag, seo t, and . Only t in again, as good as new.

        "Pick up tty pebbles, Laura," Ma said. "And anotime, dont be so greedy.”

        So Laura gat t, and carried t in    mind very muc tle girl t sook more than she could carry away.

        Not ever o Mary. Mary tle girl w    and minded    .

        Mary looked very good and s, unrumpled and , sitting on t t was fair.

        But it     tiful lake, and to    ao keep al oo pretty to eat.

        ted along on t, and t before t of twilighey were safe, because Pa had his gun.

        t moonligreetops and made patd sy-clop.

        Laura and Mary did not say anytired, and Ma sat silently    Pa sang softly:

        "Mid pleasures and palaces, t ever so heres no place like home.”
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