PA GOES TO TOWN
Before dawn, Pa went away. When Laura and Mary woke, he was gone and everything was empty and lonely. It was not as though Pa had only gone hunting. He was going to town, and he would not be back for four long days. Bunny had been shut in the stable, so she couldnt follow her mother.

INDIANS IN THE HOUSE
Early one morning Pa took his gun and went hunting.
He had meant to make the bedstead that day. He had brought in the slabs, when Ma said she had no meat for dinner. So he stood the slabs against the wall and took down his gun.

MOVING IN
The walls are up, Pa was saying to Ma in the morning. Wed better move in and get along as best we can without a floor or other fixings. I must build the stable as fast as I can, so Pet and Patty can be inside walls, too. Last night I could hear wolves howling from every direction, seemed like, and close, too. Well, you have your gun, so Ill not worry, said Ma.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
by
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
THE PRAIRIE
GOING WEST A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees, and they never saw that little house again.