![]() Soon, Pa comes home and they learn that all that time, Pa had been at the creek, close to the house! So, the novel ends with the happy family reunited on Christmas Eve. Pa becomes lost near their home during a severe four-day blizzard. Laura and her sister have to quit school because it closed when the grasshoppers arrived. For two harvest seasons, Pa is forced to walk three hundred miles east to find work on farms that escaped the grasshopper plague. The Ingalls go through very hard times when grasshoppers decimate the much-anticipated wheat crop, and lay so many eggs that there is no hope of a crop the following year. Later, Ma has Laura and Mary invite all the girls (including Nellie) to a party at their house to reciprocate where Nellie is mean to Jack, the Ingall's dog, and speaks mean to Ma so her legs get covered with bloodsuckers in return for what she did. There, Nellie acts selfishly and grabs the biggest piece of cake. ![]() There they make friends, and also meet the town storekeeper's daughter, Nellie Oleson, who makes fun of Laura and Mary for being "country girls." Laura and Mary attend a party at the Oleson's home. ![]() Now that they live near a town, Laura and Mary go to school for the first time. ![]()
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