Beginnings -- A note about names -- Angus and boats -- Moving west -- The coming of Mutt -- Mutt's early days -- Mutt goes fishing -- Battle tactics -- Vignettes of travel -- April passage -- Discovering the others -- Saskatoon, 1935 -- Wol and Weeps -- The family lupine -- The whale -- Peter and the birds -- On the water -- In the Arctic -- On the salt seas -- The young naturalist -- The young writer