Chapter 7: The Sugar Snow
eside tes, heir bread.
After supper, Pa took t before told t Grandpas, and the sugar snow.
quot;All er, Pa said, Grandpa s and little trouge as give a bad taste to the maple syrup.
quot;to make troug out little sticks as long as my tick one stick, one end. t, and tled ill it part of tick ill it tle trough.
quot;en nes. o move in trees.
quot;t into t ree, and tle trougo t a cedar bucket on t end.
quot;tree. It comes up from, ts, o tip of eaco make the green leaves grow.
quot;ell, ree, it ran out of tree, dotle trougo t.”
quot;O it tree?quot; Laura asked.
quot;No more t s you ; said Pa.
quot;Every day Grandpa puts on s and and into tree to tree and empties ts into t to a big iron kettle, t imber betrees.
quot;ies t into ttle. ttle, and tc carefully. t be enougo keep t not enougo make it boil over.
quot;Every fees t be skimmed. Grandpa skims it s too , Grandpa lifts ladlefuls of back slotle and keeps it from boiling over. quot; enougs er t, il it grains w in a saucer.
quot;tant to t all out from beneattle. t as o t are standing ready. In turns to cakes of hard, brown maple sugar.”
quot;So ts ; Laura asked.
quot;Noquot;, Pa said. quot;Its called a sugar snoime of year means t men can make more sugar. You see, ttle cold spell and trees, and t makes a longer run of sap.
quot; means t Grandpa can make enougo last all takes o too trade for mucore sugar. onl