Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
남북전쟁이 끝나고 고향으로 돌아가기 위해 조지아 호를 건너던 페니는 호수 깊은 곳 황무지를 개간하고 그곳에 가정을 꾸린다. 세월은 흐르고 페니에겐 동물을 사랑하는 12살 된 아들 조디와 어린 세 아이를 잃은 후 마음의 문을 닫고 사는 아내가 있다. 한편, 페니에게 속아 자신의 총을 쓸모 없는 개와 바꾼 일로 화가 난 포레스터 형제들은 페니의 돼지들을 훔쳐간다. 돼지를 찾으러 가던 중 페니는 독사에 물리고 사슴을 죽여 심장을 꺼내 물린 부위를 막는다. 페니는 가까스로 살아나고 죽은 사슴에게 새끼가 있는 걸 본 조디는 아기 사슴을 기르겠다고 조른다.
