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tnrning pin:
"Eftsoon her shallow ship away did slide,
More swift than swallow shears the liquid
sky,
Withouten oar or pilot it to guide,
Or winged canvas with the wind to fly;
Only she turn'd pin, and by and by
1t cut away upon the yielding wave,
Nor cared she her course for to apply:
For it was taught the way which she
would have,
And both from rocks and fats itself could
wisely save.'
"In his wrath he darted upward
Flashing leaped into the sunshine,
Opened his great jaws and swallowed
Both canoe and Hawatha.' (p1O4).
"And the SQUIRREL Adjidaumo," the poet
should have added, for we find, from the occur
renee of these very words, twenty one lines sub
sequently. that the squirrel shared the same
fate. 1t must have been sturgeon Of no ordi-
nary dimensions that could thus take down such
man as Hiawatha with his Birch Canoe, and
a squirrel, by single act of deglutition. The
prophet Hiawatha does not seem to have pos
sessed such emetic proper les as the prophet
Jonah; probably, however, this was from want
of time, for an undigested prophet lying three
days upon the stomach would naturally result
in ace.ifcation and ventilation. But Hiawatha
made an immediate attack upon the surgeons
heart, with which he chanced to meet while in
his animated sepulchre, and thus despatched the
aquate monster before his presence could pro-
H. Tho daf,,p otu had 40
kindness to float ashore, where the seagals ate
an oriice in his side for the egress of the impris-
oned prophet, who showed that he was better at
a .sspec" than Jonah. for he causes his grammar
Nokomis, to render the fat, which yielded large
supply of fish oil, which was made in many ways
useful But Jonah does not once seem to have
thought Of spermaceti or whale oil, which may be
accounted for on the hypothesis that the whale
recovered after his regurgtation, and retreated
to the cavernous deep. 1t is proper to remark
that Hiawatha, ever grateful for the kindness o.
others, rewarded the squirrel, for his efficient
services, with the promise that the boys shoule
call him Adjidaumo, Tail-in-air, which was
doubtless, the more gratifying to the feelings o
the squirrel from the fact that, about that time
he might have been more appropriately agnom
mated Tail-in-water, to say nothing of his body
"Always coughing like squirrel" (pl57)
We were not aware, previous to the perusa
of the great epopee of Hiawatha, that the pecu
liar noise made by squirrels which boys desig
nate as barking, is really tussive explosion, th
| L. of hav hnp,
perhaps more rational and substantial testi
monial of the gratitude of Hiawatha, for the ali
OF the Squirrel while in the surgeons stomach
10 have made him an eleemosencry present o
a bottle of cherry pectoral or some similar med
icament: and more appropriate from Hiawath'
who made no small pretentions to skill as ply
sician,as will hereafter appear. But perhap
the disease was not then developed; perhaps
indeed, it was superinduced by this very suba
. quaneous adventure.
"Teaching men the use Of simples,
And the antidote of poisons,
And the cure of all Diseases" (p20S).
Hiawatha to add dissipating the melanchol
occasioned by the dccease of his friend Chibis
bos, started out as a peripatetlc lecturer
Iamatology, or Materia Medica, Toxicology n
Therapeutics; but whether his lectures were pt
cuniariIy profitable is not stated es
"Like wisp Of straw he wrung them,
Like wisp of straw he broke them
Gould not wiring them without breaking,
e Such the strength was in their fingers (ps
; Excess of power placed it beyond the pows
8 of Kwasind' to render himself useful to his mate
o nal parent, in wringing the aqeous fluid from h
fishing nets; for he could not restrain his streng
Ito the requisite point. We have heard Of b
two other individuals who were too strong to {
anything utilitarian. The one was Strongbac
of whom an account is given in the memoirs
= Fortunio, before alluded to-. The other persc
I lalluded to, was an individual belonging to th
/. 'lsupernumerary class Of society denominat'
/, Iloafers, who was urged to work for snbssten
: but7eplied that he was too strong to mall raj
e and as for grubbing, he had put no grubsin d
:, ground, and he did not intend g. take sny o.
I, Butye shall presently see that Kwasind fou'
!. some things suited % his measure1of physie
:. .lforce. Asasf1s s, 80 ssssnAa ~ a.asibssl
sstraieht into the river K~asindlo s1ss :
Plugged as be were an otter, ssls -. a =
q Owed as if he were q HEAVIER, ysas1a '. S. !.
y Tueeed q sunken logs and branches: y
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