Sam is bathing and using his slippery bark for soap. then Jessie coon James a stry racoon apears and Sam finds himself Feading the racoon when he is hungry.Jessie is an expert mussel hunter and sometimes digs mussel for Sam.Sam will then give some to him and keep some for himself, Sam has also fed Jessie venision before.Sam deciced to make beverages for himself and found some plants to make tea and makes sasafras tea and penny royal drink.Then in the middle of the clearing he discovers a man whom he came to call Bando.The dinner he made Bando that night consisted of these puff balls,deer fat,wild garlic,boiled venision, cut apples,dogtooth flower bulb and finaly rasberries to finsh it off.While Bando was there he made jam and clay jars to go with the jam.The day that he left which must have been the 7th or 10th day of his stay his last words to Sam where "I'l come visit in the spring."Sam had learned alot from Bando like how to make willow whistles.