ij8 Language Through Nature 



Saying, with a sigh of patience, 

 " Take my cloak, O Hiawatha ! " 

 With his knife the tree he girdled; 

 Just beneath its lowest branches, 

 Just above the roots, he cut it, 

 Till the sap came oozing outward ; 

 Down the trunk, from top to bottom, 

 Sheer he cleft the bark asunder, 

 With a wooden wedge he raised it, 

 Stripped it from the trunk unbroken. 

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From "Hiawatha" by Henry W. Longfellow. 



In the first stanza Hiawatha speaks to the Birch-tree. 



Find a place in this poem where some one is addressed or 

 spoken to. 



Notice that the words in which anyone is addressed are 

 separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma. 



Quote all that Hiawatha said to the Birch-tree. 



Copy this quotation, being careful to use the comma correctly in 

 each case of direct address. Write the quotation that tells how the 

 Birch-tree addressed Hiawatha ; and write a paragraph telling in 

 your own words hoiv Hiawatha got the bark from the tree. 



'/ a light canoe will build me" 



