By the middle of the afternoon the machines had finished all the threshing. (To thresh that was to t
Since it was autumn the corn was ripe. For supper, now, they often had corn meal cooked in milk. Tha
The wonderful machine that came to the farm was an eight-horsepower thresher. Eight horses pulled to
Their father told them that the big machine was called the separator and the rod was called the tumb
Autumn was great fun. There was so much work to do, so many good things to eat, so many new things t
They also helped their mother cook the pumpkins for pumpkin pies. With the big butcher knife her mot
The days were growing shorter and the nights were cooler. One night the cold weather came and in the
They were making hats. Her father brought oat straw to the house. Her mother put the straw in water,
Now it was harvest season, or autumn, in the forest. Laura's father had grown good food on their
It was dark that night when her father and Uncle Henry came from the field. All the oats were in the
All that time Charley had been jumping up and down on a wasps' nest! The wasps lived in a nest i
On the way home that night, Laura and Mary heard her father tell her mother what happened in the fie