Aug 3, 2026 · 11 min · 8 segments
Epiosde 197 Ch. 27 of the Little Town on the Prairie, "Schooltime Begins Again" Join us this week as we discuss cats hunting, Mr. V.S.L. Owens, the Western Reserve, revival meetings, "The Ninety and…
she worked in the garden and the house and in the hanging time she trod the great loads of hay that pa drove away to town but the long hot sticky hours with school books and slate seemed to overshadow all else she didn't even go to town for the fourth of july carrie went with pa and ma but laura stayed home to take care of grace and study the constitution long letters came often from mary and every week a long letter went to her in return even grace was able to write little letters as ma taught her and they were always sent to mary with the others there was a new teacher mr owen a son of the mr owen whose bay horses had almost won the fourth of july race laura liked him and respected him very much he was not very old but he was serious and industrious and enterprising Ida and Laura, Mary Power and Minnie, and Nellie Olsen had kept their old seats.
They were all tan brown from the summer sun except Nellie, who was paler and more ladylike than ever.
Her clothes were so beautiful, Laura thought, though her mother did make them from castoffs.
Laura grew dissatisfied with her own brown school dress and her blue cashmere for best, but she did not complain, of course, though she wanted to.
"'But they are stylish, and when you're my age, you'll want to be in style.'" The other girls were talking eagerly about the revival meetings.
laura did not know why for she had never been to a revival meeting but when she said she would stay home and study nellie exclaimed in horror why people who don't go to revival meetings are atheists The church was crowded and hot from the dazzling lamps and the coal heater.
Greybeards sat close around the pulpit, families took the middle seats, and young men and boys filled the back seats.
Laura saw everyone she knew and many strangers as Pa led the way up the aisle looking for a vacant place.
He stopped in front of the next seat with Ma and Grace, then Laura and Carrie edged past knees and sat down.
though she felt that she should be studying not wasting time in enjoyment her voice rose clear and true as pause as they sang come forward come forward and be saved come to salvation repent ye sinners stand up stand up and sing oh lost lambs flee from the wrath pull pull from the shore reverend brown lifted them all with to their feet and his loud voice saying pull pull for the shore sailor pull for the shore She did not notice a touch on her coat sleeve until she heard a voice saying, May I see you home? It was Almanza Wilder.
she worked in the garden and the house and in the hanging time she trod the great loads of hay that pa drove away to town but the long hot sticky hours with school books and slate seemed to overshadow all else she didn't even go to town for the fourth of july carrie went with pa and ma but laura stayed home to take care of grace and study the constitution long letters came often from mary and every week a long letter went to her in return even grace was able to write little letters as ma taught her and they were always sent to mary with the others there was a new teacher mr owen a son of the mr owen whose bay horses had almost won the fourth of july race laura liked him and respected him very much he was not very old but he was serious and industrious and enterprising Ida and Laura, Mary Power and Minnie, and Nellie Olsen had kept their old seats.
They were all tan brown from the summer sun except Nellie, who was paler and more ladylike than ever.
Her clothes were so beautiful, Laura thought, though her mother did make them from castoffs.
Laura grew dissatisfied with her own brown school dress and her blue cashmere for best, but she did not complain, of course, though she wanted to.
"'But they are stylish, and when you're my age, you'll want to be in style.'" The other girls were talking eagerly about the revival meetings.
laura did not know why for she had never been to a revival meeting but when she said she would stay home and study nellie exclaimed in horror why people who don't go to revival meetings are atheists The church was crowded and hot from the dazzling lamps and the coal heater.
Greybeards sat close around the pulpit, families took the middle seats, and young men and boys filled the back seats.
Laura saw everyone she knew and many strangers as Pa led the way up the aisle looking for a vacant place.
He stopped in front of the next seat with Ma and Grace, then Laura and Carrie edged past knees and sat down.
though she felt that she should be studying not wasting time in enjoyment her voice rose clear and true as pause as they sang come forward come forward and be saved come to salvation repent ye sinners stand up stand up and sing oh lost lambs flee from the wrath pull pull from the shore reverend brown lifted them all with to their feet and his loud voice saying pull pull for the shore sailor pull for the shore She did not notice a touch on her coat sleeve until she heard a voice saying, May I see you home? It was Almanza Wilder.
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