![]() ![]() However, we see another side of Ma in “Two Big Bears.” When she slaps a bear after mistaking it for the cow in lantern light, she tells Laura to walk back to the house. “Which do you like best, Aunty Lotty,” Mary asked, “brown curls or golden curls?” Ma had told them to ask that, and Mary was a very good little girl who always did exactly as she was told. There is much to admire in Ma, but her role in the hair color debate has always annoyed me. But in “Summertime,” Mary knows just how to upset Laura-by saying her own golden curls are prettier than Laura’s. ![]() I also sympathized when, later in the book, Laura slaps her sister Mary. Her frustration erupts with a declaration: “I hate Sunday!” She wished she had nothing to wear but skins. “Poor Adam, all he had to wear was skins.” “Did Adam have good clothes to wear on Sundays?” Laura asked Ma. Here’s an example from the “Sunday” chapter: ![]()
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