Little House in the Big Woods by Little House in the Big Woods

Author:Little House in the Big Woods [Woods, Little House in the Big]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, American History, Biography
Published: 2011-01-10T06:00:00+00:00

LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS

"All winter," Pa said, "Grandpa has been making wooden buckets and little troughs. He made them of cedar and white ash, for those woods won't give a bad taste to the maple syrup.

'To make the troughs, he split out little sticks as long as my hand and as big as my two fingers. Near one end, Grandpa cut the stick half through, and split one half off. This left him a flat stick, with a square piece at one end. Then with a bit he bored a hole length-wise through the square part, and with his knife he whittled the wood till it was only a thin shell around the round hole. The flat part of the stick he hollowed out with his knife till it was a little trough.

"He made dozens of them,

and he made ten new wooden

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