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Summertime 1868.<br />
Sometimes Ma let Laura and Mary go across the road and down the hill, <strong>to</strong> see<br />
Mrs. Peterson. The Petersons had just moved <strong>in</strong>. Their house was new, and always<br />
very neat, because Mrs. Peterson had no little girls <strong>to</strong> muss it up. She was a<br />
Swede, and let Laura and Mary look at the pretty th<strong>in</strong>gs she had brought from<br />
Sweden – laces, and colored embroideries, and ch<strong>in</strong>a.<br />
Mrs Peterson talked Swedish <strong>to</strong> them, and they talked English <strong>to</strong> her, and they<br />
unders<strong>to</strong>od each other perfectly. She always gave them each a cookie when they<br />
left, and they nibbled the cookies very slowly while they walked home.<br />
….<br />
From “Little House <strong>in</strong> the Big Woods”.<br />
The book Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote <strong>in</strong> Wiscons<strong>in</strong><br />
about the time when she had our immigrants<br />
the family of Christ<strong>in</strong>a and Lars Erik Peterson as their neighbors.<br />
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