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Exact date unknown for when Sam left home.
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The last winters date is unknown.
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Exact date in May is unknown. In May, Sam was been working.
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Sam gets Frightful
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On June 6th, Sam gets Frightful to train her.
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" I finished my bed today. The ash slats work very well, and are quite springy and comfortable. The bed just fits in the right-hand of the tree.I have hemlock boughs on it now, but hope to have deer hide soon. I am making a figure-four trap as tall as me with a log on it that I can barely lift. It doesn't look workable. I wish there was another way of getting a deer."
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On June 19th, Sam finished his bed.
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" I decided today to dig a pit to trap a deer, so I am whittling a shovel out of a board I found in the stream this morning. The stream is very useful. It has given me tin cans for pots, and now an oaken board for a shovel."
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" The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes"
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" It's was a terribly hot day for Bando to be firing clay jars, but he stuck with it. They look jam-worthy, as he says, and we filled three of them tonight. The jam is good and the pots remind me of crude flower pots without the hole in the bottom. Some of the lids don't fit."
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" Bando taught me how to make willow whistles today. "
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Bando leaves Sam because he has to go home.
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" Today The Baron Weasel looked moldy. I coundn't get near enough to see what was wrong with him, but it occurs to me that he might be changing his summer fur for his white winter mantle. If he is, it is an itchy process. He scratches a lot."
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" I have been up and down the mountain every day for a week, watching to see if walnuts and hickory nuts are ripe."
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On November 23rd, Sam was head to toe in deerskin.
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" Hunters are excellent friends if used correctly. Don't let them see you; but follow them closely."
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Snow begins
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On December 3rd snow begins to fall. Sam was surprised that it had snowed.
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Was the last winter. 8 months ago Sam ran away.
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On December 25th, It's Chirstmas and Bando returned today.
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" I took Frightful out today. We went to the meadow to catch a rabbit for her; as we passed one of the hemlocks near the edge of the grove, she pulled her feathers to her body and looked alarmed. I tried to find out what frightened her, but saw nothing."
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"The deer have pressed in all around me. They are hungry. Apparently they stamp out yards in the valleys where they feed during the dawn and dusk, but many of them climb back to the hemlockgrove to hide and sleep for the day. They manage the deep snows so effortlessly on those slender hooves."
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" I think the great horned owls have eggs! The mountain is white, the wind blows,the snow is hard packed, but spring is beginning in their hollow maple. I will climb it tomorrow."
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"Yes, yes,yes,yes. It is spring in the maple."
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March 20th 1960 was the first day of spring in 1960.
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Sam is a 12-year-old boy.
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There are 177 pages in My Side Of The Mountain.
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Sam has eight siblings. I think four brothers and four sisters.
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June 1st in 1960 is when " June burst over the mountain"
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The First Day Of Summer was on June 21st 1960.
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The first day of autumn/ fall was on September 23rd 1960
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What Sam did on Halloween was learn about it.
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The first day of winter was on December 22nd 1960.
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In 1969, My Side Of The Mountain became a movie.