The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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THE

 

SONG OF HIAWATHA.

 

BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

 

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
M DCCC LV.

 

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

 

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.

 

 

CONTENTS.

 

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		PAGE
Introduction		3
I.	The Peace-Pipe	11
II.	The Four Winds	20
III.	Hiawatha's Childhood	36
IV.	Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis	49
V.	Hiawatha's Fasting	65
VI.	Hiawatha's Friends	80
VII.	Hiawatha's Sailing	90
VIII.	Hiawatha's Fishing	98
IX.	Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather	111
X.	Hiawatha's Wooing	127
XI.	Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast	142
XII.	The Son of the Evening Star	155
XIII.	Blessing the Corn-Fields	175
XIV.	Picture-Writing	188
XV.	Hiawatha's Lamentation	198
XVI.	Pau-Puk-Keewis	210
XVII.	The Hunting of Pau-Puk Keewis	224
XVIII.	The Death of Kwasind	243
XIX.	The Ghosts	250
XX.	The Famine	262
XXI.	The White Man's Foot	272
XXII.	Hiawatha's Departure	284
Notes		297