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.
Após a Guerra Civil Americana, um soldado rebelde e sua esposa se tornam agricultores pioneiros na Flórida. Seu filho Jody está com 11 anos de idade e se dá bem com seu caloroso e afetuoso pai, mas sua mãe é assombrado pela morte de seus outros filhos, então ela é sombria, fria mesmo. O menino quer um animal de estimação e o pai é simpático mas a mãe é contra. Quando uma cascavel morde o pai, ele mata uma corça para usar seus órgãos para extrair o veneno. Jody implora para manter o filhote da corça como animal de estimação. Os pais concordam, e o menino e o veado logo ficam inseparáveis. O filhote cresce rapidamente, e com um ano de idade já atropela brotos de tabaco e come o milho recém-germinado. Isso é demais para mãe, e Jody tem de enfrentar a realidade de adultos agressivos.