ometing thou keto dy your beet tne mat st very sma Pieces of ry arth Chapter 6 = Summertime on the prairie We prairi ing Laura @ big moon while Ps bea ind th id Pa were she asked, : The cowboys are singing to their W's time for them to sleep. ‘The next morning wi hen Laura r out of the ho ing on horses by the stable. They we . They were as red-brown as Indian with beef. How would yo cowboy pulls it uj hose to keep the dust out. Then P: "a rode Patty down the il. All day the sun shone hot and the sound of 0 Me a Plot, op? Pb ling tee ‘ame ridin covered a dust, There was dust in his hair and around his eyes, his cloth going to work again he cattle were not across the creck yet. they went they made Laura feel and Mary watched the pra Suddenly out of the dusty grass, not far fr cattle camer feet beating the ground. A cowboy on He waved h them along, two Laura ran around outside, waving her hat and shouting Mi id. ‘Stop that! A young lady shouldn't shout “L wish Le cowboy, Ma,’ Laura said. Late that saw Pa riding home with two ied the attle across eves opened wide when she saw ‘They gave me the cow bec id when came in the travel, They gave me the be went out to the stable to get some milk from the cow for Baby Carrie. They watched her drink all that good milk, Baby Carrie's litle red tongue cleaned her milky lips and she laughed. Ma cooked the beef and everyone felt happy. Nothing had eat »yucowache tofesla pain ever tasted as good as th way now, and the 1 cattle were the songs of the year there were blackberries, and in the with Ma to pick them in the bushes by the creek. ‘There were mosquitoes blackberry bushes, and th flernoons Laura we ked to bite hands, and feet were ery day they brought nd Ma laid them out in the sun to dry. the day there were only a few n But at ni of them. 0} ssquitoes in the house, ‘many mosquitoes it him. Mr because there were te ‘Tdon't want ache.” Ma stopped just ache. My legs ache.” a's face. “You're as hot as we day Laura opened her eyes and saw the bright Mary was beside her crying ick was walking between I want a drink nt of the sun of water! I want a drink of wate the big bed and her Is.’ Then his head fell back and he lay Law Ma's red face looking from the big bed. Mary was i Ma oked at Mary and then she "Yes, Ma, the way Sib stony th) Your body dose 0 the oorthe floor to the water bucket ers. Its eyes were and a deep v good, like chicken. “Drink it all up, like a g ‘Ma got up, and then Mary. They were they could o Mrs Scott went home. fare there to help and that it came from the mosquitoes. masauoes