O N C E upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in ttle gray , dark trees of tood all around trees and beyond trees. As far as a man could go to t rees and them.

        olves lived in ts. Muskrats and mink and otter lived by treams. Foxes he hills and deer roamed everywhere.

        to t of ttle log o t, trees, and only a fetle log tered far apart in the Big oods.

        So far as ttle girl could see, ttle er Mary and baby sister Carrie. A rack ran before turning and ting out of sig ttle girl did not kno, nor .

        ttle girl hey do now.

        At nigrundle bed sened and could not    all but trees her.

        Sometimes, far a, a wolf hen he came nearer, and howled again.

        It     little girls. But s. o sleep, Laura. Jack    let trundle bed, close beside Mary, and    to sleep. One nigip out of bed and carried o t s see tting in front of ted t t moon, and howled.

        Jack paced up and doood up alo t get in.

        table airs ttic, pleasant to play in    closed ter. t , door and a back door.

        All around to keep the deer away.

        In t of tiful big oak trees. Every m as soon as so look out of trees a dead deer hanging from a branch.

        Pa    t t nigrees so t get t.

        t day Pa and Ma and Laura and Mary     Laura    all. But most of t must be salted and smoked and packed ao be eaten in ter.

        For er er, and frost ig buried in snos, and treams ter cold    be sure of finding any o s for meat.

        t soundly all er long. ts in rees, ails s    a deer, it    fat and plump as deer are in the fall.

        Pa mig alone all day in tter cold, in t nigo eat.

        So as muc be stored atle er came.

        Pa skied and stretc leat up t, and sprinkled salt over them on a board.

        Standing on end in tall lengt from trunk of a big ree. Pa ood it up, put a little roof over top, and cut a little door on one side tom. On t    out ened leatted it into place, and t tle door, ill on it.

        After t ed several days, Pa cut a    a string t. Laura    the hollow log.

        tle door and    on t a ladder against to top, moved to one side, and reaco    on those nails.

        t to Laura:

        "Ruo tes.”

        So Laura ran to t smelling chips.

        Just ile door in t a fire of tiny bits of bark and moss, and    very carefully.

        Instead of burning quickly, t ttle smoke squeezed t and a little smoke came out t most of it .

        "tter t; Pa said. "t    will keep anywher.”

        took    ao to cut dorees.

        Laura and Ma copped ing, t t. All time ttle smell of smoke in ty smell came out.

        At last Pa said t t, and Pa took all trips and pieeat out of tree. Ma ic whey would keep safe and dry.

        One m Pa    away before daylig nigo Lake Pepin and caug.

        Ma a cut large slices of flaky ed o fresed doer.

        Pa o ran s and roots. No and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten. c as soon as to keep the pork frozen.

        Laura cdoors. twice.

        old o to grab tarlig t     at all.

        Laura    get t so mucoo, but ;Anyhe ba.”

        ttle     t jump t tables in time, and at nig times in ttle s among ts and t Jacks tracks oo, and t out again.

        Noatoes and carrots, ts and turnips and cabbages ored in ts had e.

        Onions o long ropes, braided togetops, and ttic beside rung on ttics ers.

        ted fisry, and yellory shelves.

        t of to ct Pollys butcher knife.

        -a bonfire, and ed a great kettle of er over it. er    to kill topped    he hog squeal.

        "It doesnt    ; Pa said. "e do it so quickly." But s    to hear him squeal.

        In a minute. sook one finger cautiously out of an ear, and listeopped squealing. After t, Butcime    fun.

        It was suco see and do. Uncle ail.

        As soon as ted it up and doer till it    on a board and scraped it les came off. After t tree, took out t it o cool.

        ook it do it up. t and spare-ribs and belly. t and tongue, and to be made into s to be made into sausage.

        t . t to pickle in brine, for the hollow log.

        "You t beat ; Pa said.

        made a little igring and gave it to Mary and Laura to play    into t it bad fortheir hands.

        Or it . But eveer fun tail.

        Pa ski for to t a sick. Ma ope of tove and raked    coals out into took turns ail over the coals.

        It sizzled and fried, and drops of fat dripped off it and blazed on t . t very , and Laura burned    sed s care. Roasting tail    aking turns.

        At last it     into to cool it, and even before it ing it and burongues.

        te every little bit of meat off to Jack. And t ail. t be anotill    year.

        Uncle    er dinner, and Pa    ao    for Laura and Mary and Ma, Butcime    deal for Ma to do, and Laura and Mary helped her.

        All t day and t, Ma rying out ts on tove. Laura and Mary carried c must be , but not too , or ts simmered and boiled, but t not smoke. From time to time Ma skimmed out t t every bit of t to flavor joer.

        Crags o eat, but Laura and Mary could aste. too rictle girls, Ma said.

        Ma scraped and ed t till all t fell off t fine     and spices. t-liquor , a ao cool.        in slices, and t was headcheese.

        ttle pieeat, lean and fat, t il it    and pepper and ossed and tur until it o balls. S t in to eat all er. t he sausage.

        cime e salt-pork out in ttic he smoked hams and shoulders.

        ttle ing ored aer. try and ttic.

        Laura and Mary must play in t doors and trees. tove never    out. At nig o keep till m.

        ttic o play. tiful cables. tter y spicy smell.

        Often tside    in ttic Laura and Mary played hing was snug and cosy.

        Mary tle. Laura    it        Susans fault t simes Mary let Laura tle, but s only w see.

        t times of all    niger supper Pa brougraps in from to grease t and greased ther dipped in bears grease.

        traps and middle-sized traps and great bear traps eet Pa said    on to it.

        raps, Pa told Laura and Mary little jokes and stories, -and afterward he would play his fiddle.

        tig, and tuffed o keep out t Black Susan, t, came and    as s, t-tom of t door. S very quickly, so t catcail, w fell s behind her.

        One nigraps ched Black Susan e in, and he said:

        "ts, a big cat and a little cat.”

        Laura and Mary ran to lean on .

        "s," Pa repeated, "a big cat and a little cat. So -. And ttle cat-tle cat.”

        topped.

        "But tle cat-" Mary began.

        "Because t    let it," Laura interrupted. "Laura, t is very rude. You must never interrupt," said Pa. "But I see," ;t eit t ; traps, and ook    of its box and began to play. t    time of all.
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