“I never saw a heavier-built muskrats’ house than that one.”ĩ. “The colder the winter will be, the thicker the muskrats build the walls of their houses,” Pa told Laura. Looking at a muskrat house - that the animals build out of mud - will tell you what the winter is going to be like. The world’s best revenge against a mean little kid is to lure them into a creek filled with leeches.Ĩ. If you haven’t had time to build a real house, you can live in a sod-walled dugout.ħ. It’s easy to catch fish using nothing but a box.Ħ. If you haven’t had a chance to put a roof on the house yet, just stretch the wagon cover over it.ĥ. To grow the biggest pumpkins, like Almanzo does in Farmer Boy, water them with milk.Ĥ. The best candy is snow candy: Boil molasses and sugar together and pour the syrup onto a plate of clean snow.ģ. A pig’s bladder can be blown up to make a nice balloon, and roasted pig’s tail on a stick is a fine treat.Ģ. 15 things we learned from Little House on the Prairieġ.
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