It's Tuesday.
Chapter five:THE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Laura and Mary were up next morning earlier than the sun. The ate their breakfast of cornmeal mush with prairie-hen gravy, and hurried to help !a wash the clothes. Pa was loading everything else into the wagon and hitching up Pet and Patty. When the sun rose, they were driving on across the prairie. There was no road now. Pet and Patty waded through the grasses, and the wagon left behind it only the tracks of its wheels. Before noon, Pa said whoa to stop the wagon. He told Ma that they would build their house right there. Laura and Mary scrambled over the feed-box and dropped to the ground in a hurry. All around them there was nothing but grassy prairie spreading to the edge of the sky. Quite near them, to the north, the creek bottoms lay below the prairie. Some darker green tree tops showed, and beyond them bits of the rim of earthen bluffs held up the prairie’s grasses. Far away to 5he east, a broken line of different greens lay on the prairie, and Pa said that was the river. He told Ma that that was the Verdigris River, pointing it out to Ma. Right away, he and Ma began to unload the wagon. They took out everything and piled it on the ground. Then they took off the wagon-cover and put it over the pile. Then they took even the wagon-box off, while Laura and Mary and Jack watched. The wagon had been home for a long time. Now there was nothing left of it but the four wheels and the part that connected them. Pet and Patty were still hitched to the tongue. Pa took a bucket and his ax, and sitting on this skeleton wagon, he drove away.
