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      HarperCollins Children’s Books

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      First published in the USA by Harper Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1970

      First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Children’s Books Ltd, 1970

      This ebook edition first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2015

      Text copyright © E.B. White, 1970

      Illustration copyright © Fred Marcellino, 2000

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      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780008139438

      Version: 2016-08-26

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       7 School Days

       8 Love

       9 The Trumpet

       10 Money Trouble

       11 Camp Kookooskoos

       12 A Rescue

       13 End of Summer

       14 Boston

       15 A Night at the Ritz

       16 Philadelphia

       17 Serena

       18 Freedom

       19 A Talk about Money

       20 Billings

       21 The Greening Spring

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       About the Illustrator

       Other Books By

       About the Publisher

       Sam

      WALKING BACK to camp through the swamp, Sam wondered whether to tell his father what he had seen.

      “I know one thing,” he said to himself. “I’m going back to that little pond again tomorrow. And I’d like to go alone. If I tell my father what I saw today, he will want to go with me. I’m not sure that’s a very good idea.”

      Sam was eleven. His last name was Beaver. He was strong for his age and had black hair and dark eyes like an Indian. Sam walked like an Indian, too, putting one foot straight in front of the other and making very little noise. The swamp through which he was travelling was a wild place—there was no trail, and it was boggy underfoot, which made walking difficult. Every four or five minutes Sam took his compass out of his pocket and checked his course to make sure he was headed in a westerly direction. Canada is a big place. Much of it is wilderness. To get lost in the woods and swamps of western Canada would be a serious matter.

      As he trudged on, the boy’s mind was full of the wonder of what he had seen. Not many people in the world have seen the nest of a Trumpeter Swan. Sam had found one on the lonely pond on this day in spring. He had seen the two great white birds with their long white necks and black bills. Nothing he had ever seen before in all his life had made him feel quite the way he felt, on that wild little pond, in the presence of those two enormous swans. They were so much bigger than any bird he had ever seen before. The nest was big, too—a mound of sticks and grasses. The female was sitting on eggs; the male glided slowly back and forth, guarding her.

      When Sam reached camp, tired and hungry, he found his father frying a couple of fish for lunch.

      “Where have you been?” asked Mr. Beaver.

      “Exploring,” replied Sam.

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