stories of the moorland
I'm reading a copy of the book Carrie received the Christmas Laura received Tennyson's Poems (see Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 19, "The Whirl of Gaiety"). Or Scott's Poems, if you go by what the manuscript says. I had never heard of these Moorland stories, and I bought the book sight unseen.

It's about a young child who is part of a loving family. There is the daily stuff -- cooking and cleaning and going for the sheep, and snowstorms and cosy surroundings and school and preparing for winter and descriptions of warm clothes and all that. And every now and then, the patriarch of the family tells a story -- about when he was a little boy or about other family members or about Sunday.

The book has a rather familiar ring to it.
- posted by pioneergirl at 1:53 AM