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Two Little Savages

Ernest Thompson Seton

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Yet two other social grades existed. Every man and boy in Sanger was an expert with the axe; was wonderfully adroit. The familiar phrase, "He's a good man," had two accepted meanings: If obviously applied to a settler during the regular Saturday night Irish row in the little town of Downey's Dump, it meant he was an able man with his fists; but if to his home life on the farm, it implied that he was unusually dexterous with the axe. A man who fell below standard was despised. Since the houses of hewn logs were made by their owners, they reflected the axemen's skill. There 105 were two styles of log architecture; the shanty with corners criss-cross, called hog-pen finish, and the other, the house with the corners neatly finished, called dovetail finish. In Sanger it was a social black eye to live in a house of the first kind. The residents were considered "scrubs" or "riff-raff" by those whose superior axemanship had provided the more neatly finished dwelling. A la. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I read and re-read this book so many times as a kid that the librarian thought I was up to no good. Well, maybe I was. The work is quite unusual as it is a novel and a handbook for boys at the same time.

Лагідне повернення в дитинство, на лоно природи, до тих місць, де можна жити тут і тепер

Дружба, дорослішання, змагання, хто кращий, хто відважніший. Релігійність дитини, яка має трепет перед живою природою.

Хочеться ту книжку тримати в пам'яті, як найкраще літо в селі)

Read when I was a kid, it spoke to my love of the outdoors. While there are some references that are 'sign of the times', primarily it deals with the reverence which the author feels for the natives and their skills. The enjoyment of the outdoors and living off the land.
I still read it once in a wh

I LOVED this book as a kid. My brothers and I lived out in the country and we played Indians a lot using as much of the lore found in this book as possible. Just shows you what kids can come up with when there are no videogames and they have to use their imagination.

Subtitle: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned.

Let's go straight to the Savages in the title. Seton wrote this in 1903. You would expect '...and he reflects the values of his time,' — but that's just not accurate, except for the word savage. I can't recall one

My favorite book as a child.

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