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• The narrator initially disliked eating crayfish but is now starting to enjoy it.
• Bando jokingly refers to the narrator as "Thoreau".
• Bando expresses that his life, despite being varied and interesting in the past, now seems dull to him.
• Despite the narrator believing he will stay at the cabin for winter, Bando is skeptical.
• Bando and the narrator became good friends over a period of about a week or ten days.
• They spent time gathering acorns and groundnuts, harvesting blueberries, and smoking fish.
• They regularly flew Frightful, enjoying watching her fly in the sky.
• The narrator had plenty of meat, so Frightful could keep what she caught.
• Bando returned from town with five pounds of sugar to make blueberry jam.
• Bando knows how to make jam, having learned from his Pa in Mississippi.
• The pair's current challenge is finding containers for the jam.
• The narrator is making a raft and Bando plans to stay until they can use it for fishing.
• The narrator and Bando discovered clay by the stream bank.
• Bando shaped the clay into jars and lids, creating containers for jam, which are dried.
• Bando made a clay oven and baked the clay containers in it.
• Bando fashioned homemade bellows from a tied-together animal skin with a reed nozzle to heat the fire.
• The day was hot while Bando was firing clay jars.
• Bando filled three jars with jam and declared they looked jam-worthy.
• Bando says he will research pottery making to improve his skills.
• The narrator and Bando enjoy the jam on hard acorn pancakes.
• The Baron Weasel appeared on the rock and briefly interacted with Bando.
• Bando taught the narrator how to make willow whistles.
• They made willow whistles from bark tubes and wood sliders to change the sounds.
• Bando could even play jazz on the willow whistles.
• The sounds of the willow whistles resemble the wind in the hemlock trees, with sad tunes being the most suitable.
• Tears came to the narrators eyes when they played The Young Voyageur.
• Bando left and said he would see the narrator at Christmas.
• The narrator felt lonely after Bando's departure, and began sewing moccasins to keep busy.
• After finishing the moccasins, is now making a glove to protect their hand from Frightful's talons.
• Frightful communicated her love and contentment to the narrator.
• Frightful's beak movements and feather fluffing indicated happiness, well-being, and contentment and turned and bit the narrator's nose gently
• Jessie Coon James reappeared after being absent for ten days.
• The Baron Weasel returned and played with a fern leaf.
• The narrator feels that their group is back together again.

The narrator and Bando forage together, gathering acorns, groundnuts, and blueberries while smoking fish. Bando teaches the narrator how to make blueberry jam. The pair works on building a raft for fishing.