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Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on Feb. 7, 1867, in Pepin County, Wisconsin.
15 things we learned fromLittle House on the Prairie1.
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To grow the biggest pumpkins, like Almanzo does inFarmer Boy,water them with milk.4.
Its easy to catch fish using nothing but a box.6.
If you havent had time to build a real house, you could live in a sod-walled dugout.7.
The worlds best revenge against a mean little kid is to lure them into a creek filled with leeches.8.
I never saw a heavier-built muskrats house than that one.9.Out of flour?
Grind wheat to make bread using a coffee grinder.10.
When the wood and coal are gone, twist hay into tight bundles for fuel.11.
A panther screaming sounds just like a woman screaming.12.
Mice can eat your hair while you sleep.13.
Ma put the button in the center of the square of calico.
These must be good meat; theyre fat as butter, he tells Ma.
She fries up a few and turns the rest into a pie.
10 things we only really notice when reading the books as an adult1.
Theres a tremendous amount of butchering, killing, skinning, and gutting.
Yes, we know they had to do that if they wanted to eat.
This all went over our heads as first-graders.4.
)5.Laura first gets a job at 13, and shes working fulltime as a schoolteacher by 15.
One of Lauras cousins gets married at 13!7.
Ma is kind of dour and unpleasant.
The scene where she makes Laura give away her rag doll Charlotte HER ONLY TOY makes our blood boil.9.
Mary is the kind of prissy, unbearable big sister you just want to smack.10.
The pace of the books is strange.
Scary House on the Prairie: 10 terrible things that happen1.
Ma scares off a bear by slapping him.2.
They all nearly die when their covered wagon nearly capsizes crossing a flooded creek.3.
Not long after that, he nearly gets picked off by a panther.4.
You could hear millions of jaws biting and chewing.5.
Pa gets lost in a blizzard FOR THREE DAYS and nearly freezes to death.6.
Mary catches scarlet fever and goes blind.7.
Something made Laura look up to the top of the bank.
And there, dark against the moonlight, stood a great wolf!
He was looking at her.
The wind stirred his fur and the moonlight seemed to run in and out of it.8.
I wish youd finish mine.9.
