Chapter 2

This chapter starts out with the first snow and Pa shooting a bear that killed a pig. Then Laura mentions what they do because they can't go outside. She also mentions they chores they have to do. Then she explains how her Ma makes butter and her cooking process. When Pa comes home, he does the outside chores and plays the fiddle or games with the girls and tells them stories. The story in this chapter is about Laura's grandpa and a panther. In the story, Laura's grandpa was coming back from town one day and didn't have his gun. Halfway home he heard a panther scream and it started chasing him. He rode his horse as fast as he could home and ran into the house. The panther hurt the horse he was riding, but grandpa shot the panther. He never leaves without his gun anymore.

Response- WOW. I would have panicked if a panther was chasing me! That grandpa has some serious skill not to freak out!