Timeline about : Little House In The Big Woods

By: Maisaroh Febriyanti / XI TKJ B

once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little
girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. There
were no houses. There were no roads. There
were no people. There were only trees and the
wild animals who had their homes among them.
there was only the one little house where a little
girl named Laura and her family lived. Father,
mother, her sister Marry and baby sister Carrie.

Pa build a fire of tiny bits of bark and moss,

and he laid some of the chips on it very carefully.
This is useful for processing good venison will keep
anywhere in any weather.

Laura and Ma watched the fire forseveral

days. When smoke stopped coming through the
cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips
and Ma would put them on the fire under the
meat. All the time there was a little smell of
smoke in the yard, and when the door was
opened a thick, smoky, meaty smell came out.
 The meat was laid on a board in the backdoor
shed, and every piece was sprinkled with salt. The hams
and the shoulders were put to pickle in brine, for they
would be smoked, like the bladder. It made a little white
balloon, and he tied the end tight with a string and gave it
to Mary and Laura to play with. They could throw it into
the air and spat it back and forth with their hands. Or it
would bounce along the ground and they could kick it.
But even better fun than a balloon was the pig's tail.

Often the wind howled outside with a cold and

lonesome sound. But in the attic Laura and Mary played
house with the squashes and the pumpkins, and everything
was snug and cosy. Mary was bigger than Laura, and she
had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob
wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was
named Susan.

One night when Pa was greasing the traps he watched

Black Susan come in,and he said: 'There was once a man
who had two cats, a big cat and a little cat." Laura and Mary
ran to lean on his knees and hear the rest from pa’s story.