History Funny / LittleHouseOnThePrairie

** In the same scene, she gives Laura and Carrie handmade beaded jewelry with alternating colors, and they both note that the alternation is perfect. Mary comments that it's easy because someone who can see sorts the beads by color, but she would also have to keep perfect track of which color she uses when, since she can't check to see what color she just used and which comes next if she's not sure.

** It becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}when Laura decides everything she's gone through teaching school is worth it, because when Mary tells the story, it's the first time she's actually laughed since before she went blind.

* At the point where Mary is attending a school for the blind, during a visit home she relates a story of a shopping trip she took with a friend who, while legally blind, can make out colors. Her friend picked out handkerchiefs by color and lead the storekeeper to believe that she could tell color by ''touch.''

* In ''Little House in the Big Woods,'' Pa shoots a bear and brings home the meat. Mary, very excitedly, keeps telling Pa she wants the drumstick. Laura points out that Mary was unaware at how large the drumstick on a bear is.

* In ''Little House in the Big Woods," Pa shoots a bear and brings home the meat. Mary, very excitedly, keeps telling Pa she wants the drumstick. Laura points out that Mary was unaware at how large the drumstick on a bear is.

** It becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Laura decides everything she's gone through teaching school is worth it, because when Mary tells the story, it's the first time she's actually laughed since before she went blind.

'''Mary:''' You look, just the same. I don't want to eat the only bug in the whole of Dakota Territory.

'''Laura:''' There are never any bugs! These prairies are so ''clean''! There never was such a clean place.

* In one of the later books, when Laura and Carrie are walking to school, the wind blows Laura's hoopskirts around her legs and she has to constantly stop and twirl around to untwist them. All the while talking about [[{{Irony}} how silly fashions were when Ma was a girl.]]

---> '''Almanzo''': "Your hand is so small... [collecting himself] I was wondering if you would like and engagement ring."

** The next weekend, when he picks her up for a drive, he slips the ring on her finger-- a gold band with a pearl in a garnet setting. She liked it enough to marry him.

---> '''Almanzo''': "Your hand is so small... [collecting himself] I was thinking if you might like to be engaged."
---> '''Laura''': "That would depend on who asked me."

* In ''These Happy Golden Years'', Nellie manages to weasel her way into joining Laura and Almanzo on their Sunday buggy rides, Almanzo being completely clueless as to her actual motives (she's out to drive Laura away, either because she's sweet on him herself or just to piss Laura off, or both). Laura, unwilling to cave, lets the edge of the dust-robe (basically a blanket designed to keep dust off the riders' clothes) flap like a sail and scares the horses into bolting. Nellie freaks out along with them, throws a fit, and declares she'll never ride behind those maniac horses again. When Laura and Almanzo later take her friend Ida for a drive, Ida is surprised anyone could be afraid of such gentle horses, at which Almanzo looks at Laura, who just smiles and tucks in the dust-robe a little more securely.

* In ''These Happy Golden Years'', a kitten wanders into church one Sunday morning, and winds up chased by a dog. The kitten runs off and apparently disappears, until Laura realizes it's crawled up beneath her dress and is scaling her hoop skirts like a little mountain climber. When she imagines what might happen if the dog were to find it, she tries so hard not to laugh that Mary elbows her and tells her to behave herself. This just makes things harder for Laura, and when, after church, Mary scolds her for it, she laughs until she cries. When she tells Pa and Mary why, even Mary has to admit it's pretty funny.
* Also in ''Little Town on the Prairie'', the two drunks that walk arm-in-arm down the street, solemnly singing hymns and kicking the screen doors of every store they pass. Particularly amusing is when they break Royal Wilder's door, and he "yanked it open and said what he thought." Ma doesn't find the story amusing, but Pa (quietly) does.

* In ''Little Town on the Prairie'', a kitten wanders into church one Sunday morning, and winds up chased by a dog. The kitten runs off and apparently disappears, until Laura realizes it's crawled up beneath her dress and is scaling her hoop skirts like a little mountain climber. When she imagines what might happen if the dog were to find it, she tries so hard not to laugh that Mary elbows her and tells her to behave herself. This just makes things harder for Laura, and when, after church, Mary scolds her for it, she laughs until she cries. When she tells Pa and Mary why, even Mary has to admit it's pretty funny.
* Also in ''Little Town on the Prairie'', the two drunks that walk arm-in-arm down the street, solemnly singing hymns and kicking the screen doors of every store they pass. Particularly amusing is when they break Royal Wilder's door, and he "yanked it open and said what he thought." Ma doesn't find the story amusing, but Pa (quietly) does.

** It becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Laura decides everything she's gone through teaching school is worth it, because when Mary tells the story, it's the first time she's actually laughed since before she went blind.

* At the point where Mary is attending a school for the blind, during a visit home she relates a story of a shopping trip she took with a friend who, while legally blind, can make out colors. Her friend picked out handkerchiefs by color and lead the storekeeper to believe that she could tell color by ''touch.''

* At the point where Mary is attending a school for the blind, during a visit home she relates a story of a shopping trip she took with a friend who while, legally blind, can make out colors. Her friend picked out handkerchiefs by color and lead the storekeeper to believe that she could tell color by ''touch.''

** Not just that, but shortly after the incident in which the horses bolt, during the same drive, Laura suggests following the road they're on a little farther - because she knows that the first opportunity that they'll have to turn back towards town will take them past the Olesons' claim first. What makes this really amusing is that she makes the suggestion while they've stopped for a brief visit at the claim of some family friends, and Mr. Boast, clearly catching on to Laura's intentions, helps out by cheerfully assuring that "it's a good road straight north." Nellie is ''very'' unamused.

* In ''These Happy Golden Years'', Nellie manages to weasel her way into joining Laura and Almanzo on their Sunday buggy rides, Almanzo being completely clueless as to her actual motives (she's out to drive Laura away, either because she's sweet on him herself or just to piss Laura off, or both). Laura, unwilling to cave, lets the edge of the dust-robe (basically a blanket designed to keep dust off the riders' clothes) flap like a sail and scares the horses into bolting. Nellie freaks out along with them, throws a fit, and declares she'll never ride behind those maniac horses again. When Laura and Almanzo later take her friend Ida for a drive, Ida is surprised anyone could be afraid of such gentle horses, at which Almanzo looks at Laura, who just smiles and tucks in the dust-robe a little more securely.