An abridged version of the story continuing the childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of seven-year-old Martha Morse who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.