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Laura Ingalls Wilder. These Happy Golden Years
These Happy Golden Years
Table of Contents
1. LAURA LEAVES HOME
2. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
3. ONE WEEK
4. SLEIGH BELLS
5. A STIFF UPPER LIP
6. MANAGING
7. A KNIFE IN THE DARK
8. A COLD RIDE
9. THE SUPERINTENDENT’S VISIT
10. ALMANZO SAYS GOOD-BY
11. JINGLE BELLS
12. EAST OR WEST, HOME IS BEST
13. SPRINGTIME
14. HOLDING DOWN A CLAIM
15. MARY COMES HOME
16. SUMMER DAYS
17. BREAKING THE COLTS
18. THE PERRY SCHOOL
19. THE BROWN POPLIN
20. NELLIE OLESON
21. BARNUM AND SKIP
22. SINGING SCHOOL
23. BARNUM WALKS
24. ALMANZO GOES AWAY
25. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
26. TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS
27. SCHOOL DAYS END
28. THE CREAM-COLORED HAT
29. SUMMER STORM
30. SUNSET ON THE HILL
31. WEDDING PLANS
32. “HASTE TO THE WEDDING”
33. LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Published by Good Press, 2021
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She heard Mrs. Brewster talking angrily and very fast. The quilts were over Laura’s head, so that only the tip of her nose was out in the cold, but she could not help hearing Mrs. Brewster’s quarreling. “... suits you, but I keep a boarder!” she heard, and “... this horrible country out here! Schoolteacher, indeed! ... been a teacher myself, if I hadn’t married a ...”
Laura thought: “She doesn’t want to board the teacher, that is all. She’d be as cross to anybody else.” She did her best not to hear any more, and to go to sleep. But all night, in her sleep, she was careful not to fall off the narrow sofa, and she was dreading tomorrow when she must begin to teach school.
