When the zookeepers spot Serena, they try to clip her wings, and Louis attacks them.
Louis serenades her by playing " Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet, and she falls in love with him, impressed by his song and the numerous possessions hanging around his neck. One stormy night, Serena, blown off course, falls into the Zoo's Bird Lake. The zookeeper promises that because Louis is only a guest, he will not be pinioned (have a wing tip cut off to prevent escape) like all the other swans at the zoo. He leaves Boston and takes up temporary residence at the Philadelphia Zoo. Louis flies across country and becomes an instant success, with a salary of $100 per week and a private suite in the Ritz Hotel.Ī Philadelphia nightclub offers Louis a higher salary, $500 per week. Sam suggests that Louis can get a job with the Swan Boats in Boston. At the end of the summer, he has earned $100, which he carries in a waterproof pouch around his neck along with his slate, chalk, medal, and trumpet. He also receives a Lifesaving Medal for rescuing a drowning camper. Over the course of the summer, Louis plays taps, reveille, and mess call, and composes a love song for Serena. Louis convinces Sam to split one of his webbed feet with a razor blade, making "fingers" so that he can play more notes. He helps Louis find a position as camp bugler at Camp Kookooskoos, the boys' camp Sam attends. Sam suggests that Louis should get a job so he can pay the store for the trumpet and the damaged window. Instead of accompanying his family north where he might have to face Serena again, Louis visits Sam on his ranch and explains that he feels guilty about the stolen trumpet. By the time Louis learns to effectively play the trumpet, Serena has migrated north. The cob crashes through the window of a music store in Billings, Montana and steals a brass trumpet on a cord. Louis's father is aware that trumpeter swans are named after the human musical instrument and becomes determined to acquire a trumpet as a substitute "voice" for Louis.
When Louis returns to the Red Rock Lakes, he falls in love with a young swan, Serena, but cannot attract her attention. Unfortunately, because the other swans cannot read, Louis is still lonely.
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Louis turns out to be a natural at reading and writing, and Sam buys him a portable blackboard and chalk so he can communicate. Sam takes his swan friend to school with him the next morning. Louis decides he should learn to read and write in order to communicate, and flies away from the refuge to visit Sam Beaver. At the end of summer, the swan family flies to the winter refuge, Red Rock Lakes in Montana. Louis's father promises to find a way for him to communicate. The adults grow increasingly concerned about Louis, worrying that he will not be able to find a mate if he cannot trumpet like all the other swans. The adult swans gradually realize that Louis is mute.
The cygnets each chirp at Sam in greeting, except for the youngest who is named Louis and is unable to chirp but pulls Sam's shoelace instead. After the hatching of their cygnets, the cob proudly leads his brood to Sam to introduce them. After this incident, the swans begin to trust him. Sam chases the fox away, saving both the female and her eggs. One day while the pen steps away from her eggs to stretch her legs, a fox slips up behind her. The swans are worried when Sam Beaver, an 11-year-old boy on a camping trip with his father, begins coming to the lake every day to watch them the cob believes that human boys are dangerous. In Canada during the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female swan), both trumpeter swans, build their summer nest on a small island in a pond.
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