Summary

Bud recalls meeting a man in New England of Dutch ancestry. He told Bud that young men always want to travel out in the world, when the important journey is to look inside oneself.

Another memory recounts how Bud got his name. Maggie referred to him as a “new bud” (112) on their family tree and Bud’s dad liked it so much that that is what they named him.

Bud recalls a story told to him by Mr. Dancing, a local Native American man. It tells the story of a young man who is heartbroken when the woman he loves rejects him. The man conjured up an apparition of a handsome man out of snow. The handsome man went to the tribe and the beautiful woman fell in love with him. The handsome man abruptly left and the young woman followed him into the...