boy-that-wanted-to-know

Updated: June 28, 2025

Well, one day the 'Boy-that-wanted-to-know' sketched a new Duck on a pond, and he saw it again and again, but couldn't find out what it was, and there was his b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l sketch, but no one to tell him its name, so when he saw that he just had to go into the teepee and steal the First War Chief's last apple and eat it to hide his emotion."

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

'Now, if I can put their uniforms down on paper I'll know the Ducks as soon as I see them on a pond a long way off. So he set to work and drew what he could find. One of his friends had a stuffed Wood-duck, so the 'Boy-that-wanted-to-know' drew that from a long way off. He got another from an engraving and two more from the window of a taxidermist shop.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned