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I don't know the real date, but the book said, "I left New York in May"
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After a hungry and cold night in the Catskill's, Sam finds a little house in the mountains. He knocks on the door and meets a nice man named Bill. Sam shows Bill the fish he caught but couldn't cook, so Bill teaches Sam to make a fire.
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Sam spends the rest of June smoking, tanning, and finally, starting his deerskin suit.
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Even though Sam didn't wat to, he helped the lady pick strawberries the walked her back to her house. Then visited Miss Turner
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Sam picked Frightful because she is a female, and the females are bigger than the males
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Sam makes salt by boiling hickory sticks dry leaving behind a black powder that has a salty flavor
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Sam makes his bed from ash slats covered with hemlock boughs
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Sam is needing some new clothes, so he makes a figoure four trap to hopefully catch a deer.
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Frightful can't fly. Her feathers are only about an inch long. Sam still has hope in her so he strokes her to calm her
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Sam ties a piece of meat on some wood, covered with hide and feathers. He throws it in the air and Frightful will swoop out of the sky and catch the lure. After a few tries, Frightful never dropped the lure.
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When Sam whistles, Frightful knows that means "come"
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Sam wants a raft so he can fish in deep holes
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Bando makes potter so they can eat jam
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Bando takes clay from the river to makes ids and jars for the homeade jam
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Sam and Bando play song on the whistles that make them cry, and Bando will leave soon. But he plans to return on Christmas
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Bando had to go back to teaching and Sam is lonely. But then Sam rembers it fun to play with Frightful and The Baron Weasle
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Sam makes a fireplace with a chimmney for inside the tree
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Sam is stocking up on nuts for winter
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After nobody shows up for the first night, Sam decides to put out some food for his animal friends
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When Sam wakes up the day after the Halloween party, he gets a big surprise. There's food scattered all over and the animals have gotten in Sam's food supplies
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The seansons are changing so the animals are getting ready for the winter. The Weasle's fur is changing colors and Sam relizes he needs underwear!
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Sam hears gun shots and reaalizes that his clothes make him a danger for getting shot (because there made of deer.) He sets out to the tree tops and he sees a deer a hunter shot but can't find. Sam got three deer that season.
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Sam walked into town one day and met boy about his age. Sam calls him "Mr. Jacket" Sam also realizes he needs to stalk up on wood.
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An article in the New York newspaper says that they suspect a "Wild Boy" living in the Catskill Mountains, living off deer meat and nuts.
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Sam put his wood close to his tree entrance. He plans to make a tunnel through the snow to his piles of wood if the snow gets deep.
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Deer season is over and Sam has great venison steak to eat. He also has plenty of deer hides. He and Frightful have the Mountain to themselves.
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..on the third day of December when the sky blackened and snow began to fall, Sam was scared
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Sam is holed up in his tree house with Frightful and his winter supply of food.
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The "strawberry lady" reports to the newspaper that she had a siting of the "Wild Boy" living in the Catskill Mountains
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It's nearly Christmas and Bando still hasn't come. Sam worries that Bando doesn't want to come or he was just to busy
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Bando returns to the Catskills to spend the Christmas with Sam.He brings sugar for the jam and newspaper articles
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Sam's dad finds Sam on the mountain by shouting out Sam's name. He meets Bando and Frightful and stays till the new year.
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Dad thinks Frightful is beautiful even though she doesn't like him that much. He also likes her because she helps provide Sam with food.
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Christmas is over and Bando needs to get home so he can grade papers before school starts up again.
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When Dad sees that Sam is doing fine in the mountains, he stays for christmas and then goes home
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He thinks its a mouse, and it turns out he's right, a small, white mouse
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The snow is deep on the mountain, so Sam decides to make snowshoes so he can walk in the snow easily
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Sam sees the mouse that's in his tree and feeds him some nut meats. Yay! another new friend.
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Sam sees this as a sign that the "Gribley Farm is a beautiful place indeed"
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Winter is taking its part on the wildlife in the mountains. Sam helps the deer by cutting green branches for the deer herd.
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Sam belives that the owls may lay eggs .
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Sam climbs the maple tree to get to the owl's nest. He sees that they absolutely have lated eggs. They're warm to the touch.
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Sam has to tunnel through the ice to get to his tree, but its not a big problem.
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The book said: "At the end of February, the sap began to fall from the trees. I tapped some trees and boiled the sap.
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Matt is a boy about Sam's age. He works for the newspaper in Poughkeepsie called New Yorker. He came to the Catskills looking for the "wild boy" thinking he could get a good story about him.
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Winter is fading away . Jessie C. James tending for her babies. Threre are plenty of fish in the streams for Sam to eat.
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Aaron is a man from Nw York that writes songs. Sam taught him his "Cold Water Song"
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They had chicken for dinner. "Ckicken is good, it tastes like chicken"
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Sam's mother didn't want to live in a tree. She insisted they have a house with walls, light, and a fireplace.
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Sam celebrates the 4th of July