Every morning Pa went cheerfully whistling to the field… Now he carried a sack of corn fastened to his belt, and as he plowed, he threw grains of corn into the furrow beside the plow’s point. The plow turned over a strip of sod on top of the seed corn. But corn would...
The garden was growing now. In tiny rows of different greens, the radishes, lettuce, onions, were up. The first crumpled leaves of peas were pushing upward. The young tomatoes stood on thin stems, spreading out their first lacy foliage. —Little Town on the...
One of my favorite “Little House on the Prairie” television episodes is “Christmas at Plum Creek.” If you're a fan, then I'm sure that you remember it, too. It's the episode where Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura, and Carrie face the challenge of finding a way to give each other...