They lay there awhile, looking at Ma's smooth, parted hair and her hands busy with sewing in the lamplight. His mustaches and his hair and his long brown beard were silky in the lamplight, and the colors of his plaid jacket were gay. The floor was smoothed all over, and scrubbed clean and white, and the big bed under the window was soft with feathers.

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It begins by introducing, in the third person, a little girl who lives in a gray house made from logs.He rubbed them bright and greased the hinges of the jaws and the springs of the pans with a feather dipped in bear's grease.

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Or visit further afield, walk to Heddon's Mouth along the River Heddon with lunch at Hunter's Inn or swim at Woody Bay. Mary thought she ought to have the larger share because she was older, and Laura said she should have it because she was littler.They worked till dark, and then there were the chores to do, and after supper they had to go to bed so they could get up early in the morning. But the sausage balls, or the salt pork, or the smoked hams and the venison, Ma could get for herself from the shed or the attic.

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The story was made even more popular by several 20th century television shows and remains a staple on bookshelves today. Entrance to the property is up one step and over the threshold, through the double doors into the pod. But I see," he said, "that either one of you has more sense than the man who cut the two cat-holes in his door.Ma's big butcher knife was already sharpened, and Uncle Henry had brought Aunt Polly's butcher knife. Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered a little dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty from powder smoke. When the sun sank low above the treetops and no more drops fell from the tips of the icicles they began to watch eagerly for Pa. The hams and the shoulders were put to pickle in brine, for they would be smoked, like the venison, in the hollow log. Ma would help Grandma and the aunts make good things to eat for all the people who were coming to the dance.