big woods observations
I am only on Chapter 6, "Two Big Bears." But I am reading carefully and noticing a few things I never had a *doink* moment over before.

(1) Both Ma and Pa help Mary and Laura pour the molasses on snow candy syrup.

(2) The stories about Pa when he was a boy and Grandpa when he was a boy all take place in the Big Woods.

(3) There are a lot of conversation that are formatted differently from conversation in the other books. LIW wrote that Laura said or Ma said or Pa said, and "said" is followed by a colon. Then what is actually said begins a new paragraph. This seems to happen mostly in the first half of the book.

(4) As a boy, Pa calls out "Sukey" when he is calling more than one cow. And the Ingallses have Sukey the cow.

(5) Prince takes a piece out of Aunt Eliza's dress, but the story is told at Christmastime and was supposed to have happened "the other day." There is snow on the ground, but Aunt Eliza doesn't seem to be wearing a coat.

(6) Would the spring Aunt Eliza is fetching water from be running freely in the winter? She goes down into a ravine (in the snow), but doesn't seem to have any difficulty doing so.
- posted by pioneergirl at 1:13 AM