By The Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder [Wilder, Laura Ingalls]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9781581180985
Publisher: Library Reproduction Services
Published: 2006-12-21T08:00:00+00:00

BY T H E SHORES OF SILVER LAKE

bedstead in it. This room had a window, too.

Softly Laura opened the middle door. She was surprised. Steeply up in front of her went a stair, just the width of the door. She looked up, and saw the under-side of a slanting roof high overhead. She went up a few steps, and a big attic opened out on both sides of the stairs. It was twice as big as the large room downstairs. A window in each gable end lighted the whole empty place under the roof.

That made three rooms already, and still there was another door. Laura thought that there must have been a great many surveyors to need so much space.

This would be by far the largest house she had ever lived in.

She opened the third door. A squeal of excitement came out of her mouth and startled the listening house. There before her eyes was a little store. All up the walls of that small room were shelves, and on the shelves were dishes, and pans and pots, and boxes, and cans. All around under the shelves stood barrels and boxes.

T h e first barrel was nearly full of flour. T h e second held corn meal. T h e third had a tight lid, and it was full of pieces of fat, white pork held down in brown brine.

Laura had never seen so much salt pork at one time.

There was a wooden box full of square soda crackers, and a box full of big slabs of salted fish. There was a large box of dried apples, and two sacks full of potatoes, and another big sack nearly full of beans.

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