CHAPTER XIII 



HOW HIAWATHA SLEW THE " KING OF 

 FISHES " 



{Borrowed from Longfellow) 



HE SONG OF HIAWATHA " is 



probably known to most of my 

 readers, but it struck me that a 

 short epitome of the story and a 

 few extracts from the chapter on fishing may 

 serve to refresh the memory of those who have 

 read it in bygone days, and be of passing interest 

 to those who have not. 



Hiawatha was a personage of miraculous birth, 

 who was sent among the North American Indians 

 to clear their rivers, forests, and fishing grounds, 

 and to teach them the arts of peace. The scene 

 of the poem is among the Ojibways, on the 

 southern shore of Lake Superior. As the story 

 is easily convertible into prose, I shall string 

 my extracts together by prose mostly in the 

 words of the poem. 



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