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04 Christmas

Christmas

Christmas was coming.

The little log house was almost buried in snow.

Great drifts were banked against the walls and windows, and in the morning when Pa opened the door,there was a wall of snow as high as Laura's head.

Pa took the shovel and shoveled it away, and then he shoveled a path to the barn,where the horses and the cows were snug and warm in their stalls.

The days were clear and bright.

Laura and Mary stood on chairs by the window and looked out across the glittering snow at the glittering trees.

Snow was piled all along their bare,dark branches,and it sparkled in the sunshine.

Icicles hung from the eaves of the house to the snowbanks, great icicles as large at the top as Laura's arm.

They were like glass and full of sharp lights.

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