5/31/2023 0 Comments Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls WilderOn each side the soft snow was piled high. She always knew what was best to do, and she made Almanzo and Alice do it.Īlmanzo hurried behind Royal, and Alice hurried behind Eliza Jane, in the deep paths made by bobsled runners. It’s your turn to carry it now, because you’re the littlest.” Eliza Jane was bossy. “He’s bigger than I be.” Royal strode ahead, big and manly in boots, and Eliza Jane said: “No, ‘Manzo. He had to walk fast to keep up with the others, and he had to carry the dinner-pail. Almanzo was the youngest of all, and this was his first going-to-school, because he was not quite nine years old. Royal was thirteen years old, Eliza Jane was twelve, and Alice was ten. Billows of snow covered the fields and the stone fences.ĭown a long road through the woods a little boy trudged to school, with his big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. It loaded the bare limbs of oaks and maples and beeches, it bent the green boughs of cedars and spruces down into the drifts. It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.
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