![]() Pa lifted Mary up out of her chair and hugged them both together. Mary said, “We can eat bread and butter.” Laura whispered in his ear, “I’m glad you didn’t shoot them!” Then I climbed down out of the tree and came home.” “I just sat there looking at them, until they walked away among the shadows. They stood there together, looking at the woods and the moonlight. ![]() The fawn stepped over and stood beside the doe. ![]() “Then they raised their heads and looked at each other. They walked over to the place where I had sprinkled the salt, and they both licked up a little of it. “After a long while, a doe and her yearling fawn came stepping daintily out of the shadows. All around it the shadows were dark among the trees. “The moon had risen higher and the moonlight was bright in the little open place. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the fire-light and the music, were now. She looked at Ma, gently rocking and knitting. She looked at Pa siting on the bench by the hearth, and the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. “Go to sleep, now.”īut Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa’s fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods. “They are the days of a long time ago, Laura,” Pa said. When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, “What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?” “Pa’s strong, sweet voice was softly singing:Īnd the days of auld lang syne, my friend, ![]()
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