Name: Chapter 1 of Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder | Audiobook
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Harper Audio presents Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder,

Once upon a time, many years ago, a little girl lived in

the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.

The great dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house and

beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees.

As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or

a week or a whole month, there was nothing but woods.

There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.

Wolves lived in the Big Woods, and bears and huge wild cats.

Muskrats and mink and otter lived by the streams.

Foxes had dens in the hills and deer roamed everywhere.

to the West, there were miles upon miles of trees, and

only a few little log houses scattered far apart in the edge of the Big Woods.

So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little house where she

lived with her father and mother, her sister Mary, and baby sister Carrie.

A wagon track ran before the house, turning and

twisting out of sight in the woods where the wild animals lived.

But the little girl did not know where it went nor what might be at the end of it.

The little girl was named Laura and she called her father Pa and her mother Ma.

In those days and in that place, children did not say father and

mother, nor mama and papa as they do now.

At night, when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed, she listened and

could not hear anything at all but the sound of the trees whispering together,

sometimes far away in the night, a wolf howled.

Laura knew that wolves would eat little girls, but

good old Jack, the brindle bulldog, lay on guard before it.

Her father would say go to sleep Laura, Jack won't let the wolves in.

So Laura snuggled under the covers of the trundle bed close beside Mary and

One night, her father picked her up out of bed and

carried her to the window so that she might see the wolves.

There were two of them sitting in the front of the house.

They pointed their noses at the big bright moon and howled.

Jack paced up and down before the door growling.

he showed his sharp fierce teeth to the wolves.

Upstairs there was a large attic pleasant to play and when the rain

drummed on the roof, downstairs was the small bedroom and the big room.

The bedroom had a window that closed with a wooden shutter.

The big room had two windows with glass in the panes and

it had two doors, a front door and a back door.

All around the house was a crooked rail fence to keep the bears and the deer away.

In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees.

Every morning as soon as she was awake, Laura ran to look out of the window.

And one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch.

Laura had been asleep when he brought them home at night and

hung them high in the trees so the wolves could not get the meat.

That day Pa and Ma and Laura and Mary had fresh venison for dinner.

It was so good that Laura wished they could eat it all.

But most of the meat must be salted, and smoked, and

The days were shorter and frost crawled up the window panes at night.

Then the log house would almost be buried in snowdrifts and the lake and

Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat.

The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly

The squirrels would be curled in their nests in

hollow trees with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses.

The deer and the rabbits would be shy and swift.

Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and

Pa might hunt alone all day in the bitter cold in the Big Woods covered with snow

and come home at night with nothing for Ma and Mary and Laura to eat.

So as much food as possible must be stored away in the little house

Pa skinned the deer carefully and salted and stretched the hides for

sprinkled salt over the pieces as he laid them on a board.

Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk

Pa had driven nails inside as far as he could reach from each end.

Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top and

cut a little door on one side near the bottom.

On the piece that he cut out, he fastened leather hinges,

then he fitted it into place and that was the little door with the bark still on it.

After the deer meat had been salted several days,

Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it.

then she watched him hang the meat on the nails in the hollow log.

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