fresh water to drink

paw had made the bedstead he had

smoothed the oak slabs till there was

not a splinter on them

then he pegged them firmly together four

slabs made a box to hold the straw tick

acro

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indian camp day after day was hotter

than the day before

the wind was hot as if it came out of an

oven ma

said the grass was turning yellow

the whole world was rippling green and

gold under the blazin

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fever and egg you

now blackberries were ripe and in the

hot afternoons

laura went with ma to pick them the big

black juicy berries hung

thick in briar patches and in the creek

bottoms

some were in the

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park goes to town

before dawn paul went away

when laura and mary woke he was gone

and everything was empty and lonely it

was not as though paul had only gone

hunting he was going to town

and he would

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the tall indian

in those three days the northern had

held and screeched across the prairie

till it blew itself out

now the sun was warm and the wind was

mild

but there was a feeling of autumn

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a scream in the night

the days were short and gray now the

nights were very dark and cold

clouds hung low above the little house

and

spread low and far over the bleak

prairie rain fell

and sometimes s

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indian jamboree

winter ended at last there was a softer

note in the sound of the wind

and the bitter cold was gone one day paw

said he had seen a flock of wild geese

flying north

it was time to take h

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indians right away

there was another long night of sleep it

was so good to lie down and sleep

soundly

everything was safe and quiet only the

owls called

in the woods along the creek while the

great mo

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soldiers

after the indians had gone a great peace

settled on the prairie

and one morning the whole land was green

when did that grass grow ma asked in

amazement

i thought the whole country was black

a

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school days

it was january in northern new york

state

67 years ago snow lay deep everywhere

it loaded the bare limbs of oaks and

maples and beaches

it bent the green boughs of cedars and

spruc

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