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| Cause: Sam tells his father that he intends to run away to his great-grandfather's land. | Effect: Sam's dad laughs at him and doesn't take him seriously. |
| Cause: Sam's second handmade wooden fishhook works. | Effect: Sam catches five little trout |
| Cause: Sam cannot get a fire started with the flint and steel. | Effect: Sam doesn't get to cook the trout he caught. |
| Sam makes a temporary hemlock bough bed for his first night in the stream valley. | Effect: The cold winds blowing through the valley keep Sam awake all night long. |
| Cause: Sam finds Bill, who cooks the fish he caught. | Effect: Bill helps Sam learn how to successfully start a fire. |
| Cause: Sam asks the librarian for help locating the Gribley land. | Effect: Miss Turner draws a map which leads Sam to his mountain. |
| Cause: Sam encounters a little old lady who insists he help her pick strawberries. | Effect: Sam reluctantly picks berries as slowly as he can. |
| Cause: Sam visits Miss Turner and researches falcons. | Effect: Sam learns how to take care of a baby falcon and train it to catch food for him. |
| Cause: The mother falcon dives at Sam as he perches on a cliff. | Effect: Sam throws out his foot so that his tennis shoe takes the blow. |
| Cause: After removing Frightful from her nest, Sam scrambles down the cliff. | Effect: Frightful digs her talons into Sam's skin. |
| Cause: Sam sees a man in a forester's uniform near his tree. | Effect: Sam builds a lean-tyo near the gorge and spends the rest of the day and all night there with Frightful. |
| Cause: Sam catches a weasel in one of his traps. | Effect: The Baron flies out at Sam, runs up to his head, and yanks on his hair. |
| Cause: Sam puts some hickory sticks and water into a tin can and boils him. | Effect: Sam ends up with a black salt that he uses to season his food. |
| Cause: Sam sees the first winter storm coming. | Effect: Sam grabs Frighful's straps and dives through his deerskin door into his tree. |
