FastSaying
Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Country
Did
Go
Had
He
Homestead
Hunting
Leave
Like
Ma
Old
Out
Pa
Poor
Settled
Take
Two
Want
Wanted
West
Worn
Years
Related Quotes
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Across
Baby
Been
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
About
Country
Evenings
Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Afraid
Animals
Being
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bows
Box
Canvas
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Always
Because
Beds
