On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder [Wilder, Laura Ingalls]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9780060581831
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 2006-12-21T08:00:00+00:00

ON THE BANKS OF PLUM CREEK

They went up the path between the blowing grasses and wild flowers, to the house where Ma was waiting. Mary told her the girls' names one by one, and she smiled her lovely smile and spoke to them. But Nellie smoothed down her new pretty dress and said to Ma:

"Of course I didn't wear my best dress to just a country party."

Then Laura didn't care what Ma had taught her; she didn't care if Pa punished her. She was going to get even with Nellie for that.

Nellie couldn't speak that way to Ma.

Ma only smiled and said: "It's a very pretty dress, Nellie. We're glad you could come."

But Laura was not going to forgive Nellie.

The girls liked the pretty house. It was so clean and airy, with sweet-smelling breezes blowing through it and the grassy prairies all around. They climbed the ladder and looked at Laura's and Mary's very own attic; none of them had anything like that. But Nellie asked,

"Where are your dolls?"

Laura was not going to show her darling rag Charlotte to Nellie Oleson. She said: "I don't play with dolls. I play in the creek."

Then they went outdoors with Jack. Laura 171

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