Can you imagine putting everything you own into this and going across country?
Sweeping the soddy:" That front wall was built of sod. Mr. Hanson had dug out his house, and then he had cut long strips of prairie sod and laid them on top of one another, to make the front wall...No cold could get through that wall." (On The Banks of Plum Creek, chapt.2)
Pumping water. A kid job on the prairie. (above)
(below) Who knew washing clothes could be so much fun?
Scrub
Wring
Hang
Making ropes and grinding flour.
W., M. and Emily make corn cob dolls.
Twisted hay to burn. (The Long Winter)
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