“Even in songs Ma did not approve of gambling, but her toe could not stop tapping while Pa played such tunes.”
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This quote is from ‘By the Shores of Silver Lake’, page 212 in my edition. They are meeting a lot with the Boasts, and Pa has just built Ma a whatnot based on Mrs. Boasts descriptions and Ma has decorated it. They have supper together and then Pa plays his fiddle and sings with others joining in on some of the songs. While he edits some – he doesn’t sing the verses about someone not being a bad wife – he still sings the song (with Mr. Boast) about gambling which Ma cannot totally disapprove of (given the tapping toes).
Quote #3: By the Shores of Silver Lake; Happy Winter Days; the Ingalls’ and the Boasts are spending evenings together after supper. They had just finished the whatnot when this quote was mentioned in reference to only Pa and Mr. Boast singing “Camptown Races.”
The quote is from By the Shores of Silver Lake. The chapter is “Happy Winter Days”:
The Ingalses and the Boasts enjoy each other’s company in the emptiness of the abandoned prairie. Instructed by Mrs. Boast even Pa had built a new fashioned Whatnot. But the most fun they all had when Pa played his fiddle in the evening.
Even if the chanted songs didn’t ever meet Ma’s attitude to morality, she enjoyed the music, too.
(Boy, this was a tricky one! There is so much of Pa’s music in all of the books. I have to admit that it was more guessing than well-founded knowledge that I picked the right book in the first place. And then I wasn’t sure about right the chapter either. Actually I first thought the quote was from the scene, when Pa is teaching the girls how to dance polka…)
By the Shores of Silver Lake, Happy Winter Days, Describing the evenings the Ingalls and Boasts spent together at the Surveyors House.
This one came from By The Shores of Silver Lake. Chapter 22, Happy Winter Days, page 212.
BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE
“Happy Winter Days”
page 212
This quote is about a part of a song that the Ingalls and Boasts sang during that very first winter in De Smet at the Surveyor’s House.