The man is actually a professor of English literature and is lost. Believing the man is a criminal, he nicknames him "Bando" (a shortened 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. A willow whistle, similar to the one made in the novel My Side of the Mountain.
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