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Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Who are they
100
Most people think spring is this
What is a time of awakening,
100
Summer begins when Father does this
What is takes the plowshares to town to be sharpened.
100
This is how fall starts
What is with a picnic for the family
100
Eldon and Wayne argue over this
What is if there is a specific time that when fall turns to winter
100
He is the narrator and Wayne's younger brother
Who is Eldon
200
This is what Wayne promises Eldon if he will trade calves with him
What is give him his new comic book
200
This is what Father tells Eldon why he doesn't get the plowshare sharpened earlier in the year.
What is because the plowshare would forget it was sharpened
200
Eldon mostly hates fall because of this
What is it is a time of killing.
200
Father does this after dinner in the winter
What is lights the stove and everyone gathers in the winter room.
200
They are old men who immigrated from Norway
Who are Uncle David and Nels
300
Because of this Uncle David calls the season "the best time there is."
What is the calves are born
300
Father plows the field until the soil is like this
What is "as smooth as cake batter."
300
Eldon knows that the men do not like killing animals because of this
What is Father, Uncle David, and Nels are always silent while they are doing it
300
What Mother and Father do while Uncle David tells stories
What is Mother knits socks and mittens, while Father works on his carvings.
300
Alida was this
What is Uncle David's wife
400
It is Wayne and Eldon's in the spring
What is to train the new calves to drink from buckets.
400
Why Eldon is not allowed to work hard in the fields
What is he was really sick when he was younger
400
What animals do they kill in the fall
What is cows, pigs and chickens
400
When Uncle David tells stories in the winter room he always begins with this
What is the story of Alida
400
He loved to play jokes on the other loggers, but especially the foreman
Who is Crazy Alen
500
This gave Wayne the idea of jumping out of the hayloft onto Stacker's back
What is a Zane Grey novel
500
This is how Eldon and Wayne know summer is over
What is Father hitches Jim and Stacker to the hayrack one morning and announces that everyone is going to the lake
500
Mother goes to the Hemings to do this when fall is nearly over
What is goes to a quilting bee
500
Uncle David tells stories of these people
Who are vikings, loggers and woodcutters
500
These are the farm horses
Who are Jim and Stacker