The man is actually a professor of English literature and is lost. Believing the man is a criminal, he nicknames him "Bando" (an alternative version of "bandit"). One day, Sam returns home and finds a man there. Sam notices a raccoon digging for mussels in the creek and learns how to hunt for shellfish. Finding another poached deer, Sam makes himself deerskin clothing to replace his worn-out clothes. Sam prepares for winter by hunting, preserving wild grains and tubers, smoking fish and meat, and preparing storage spaces in hollowed-out trunks of trees. When a poacher illegally kills a deer, Sam steals the carcass, smokes the meat, and tans the hides. Sam calls the weasel The Baron for the regal way the animal moves about. In the fall, Sam makes a box trap to catch animals to eat, and catches a weasel. Later, Sam hides in the woods for two days after a forest ranger, spotting the smoke from Sam's cooking fire, came to investigate. He steals a chick from a falcon's nest and names the bird Frightful.
Sam goes to town and reads up on falconry at the local public library. Seeing a peregrine falcon hunting for prey, Sam decides he wants a falcon as a hunting bird. He uses fire to make the interior of the hollow tree bigger. Sam forages for edible plants and traps animals for food. Sam finds the farm but discovers the farmhouse is no longer standing.Ī willow whistle, similar to the one made in the novel My Side of the Mountain. Sam goes into town and is told where his grandfather's land is. He meets Bill, a man living in a cabin in the woods, who teaches him how to make a fire. Unable at first to locate the farm, Sam tries to survive on his own but finds his skills are not up to the task. Sam heard about his grandfather's abandoned farm near Delhi, New York, learned wilderness survival skills by reading a book at the New York City Public Library, and how Sam's father permitted him to go to Delhi, and, while he didn't think that Sam would survive, said that if he made it, to tell someone in town. In a flashback, Sam reminisces about how he came to be there. Frightful, Sam's pet peregrine falcon, and The Baron, a weasel, share the home with him. The novel begins in the middle of Sam's story, with Sam huddled in his treehouse home in the forest during a severe blizzard. He decides to run away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains to live in the wilderness. Sam Gribley is a 12-year-old boy who intensely dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York City apartment with his eight brothers and sisters. "Frightful" is a peregrine falcon ( depicted) that Sam Gribley raises to be a hunting bird.
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