The Hiawatha PrimerHoughton Mifflin Company, 1898 - 139 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adjidaumo afraid alder-bushes Bear will hear beat beautiful beavers Big-Sea-Water birds sang blossom bow and arrows brakes and bushes bright canoe comet dancing dark forest earth eyes famous roebuck fiery tresses fire-fly firs flecks and shadows flitting flowers Gitche Gumee gloomy grandmother heavens Hiawatha heard Hiawatha loved Hiawatha saw HIAWATHA'S HUNTING Hush Indian boy Indian warriors Ishkoodah Kabibonokka killed Kwasind laughing little boy little candle little Hiawatha little hunter little owl little owlet Minne-wawa Mondamin moss Mudjekeewis Mudway-aushka Naked Bear nests night Nokomis answered Nokomis called Nokomis lived Nokomis showed Hiawatha Nokomis taught Nokomis told Northern Lights oak-tree old Nokomis pathway pine-trees plumes and war-clubs rabbit rainbow red deer reindeer rippling rose Shawondasee Shingebis shoot shores of Gitche singing sleep soft song sounds of music squirrel stars shine bright stories summer talked timid trees twinkle Wabasso Wabun whispering wigwam of Nokomis wild-flowers winter yellow water-lily
Popular passages
Page 66 - Saw the moon rise from the water Rippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?" And the good Nokomis answered: "Once a warrior, very angry, Seized his grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at midnight; Right against the moon he threw her; Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?
Page 96 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them " Hiawatha's Chickens." Of all beasts he learned the language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How the beavers built their lodges, Where the squirrels hid their acorns, How the reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so timid, Talked with them whene'er he...
Page 114 - Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!" But he heeded not, nor heard them, For his thoughts were with the red deer; On their tracks his eyes were fastened, Leading downward to the river, To the ford across the river, And as one in slumber walked he.
Page 54 - Sounds of music, words of wonder; "Minne-wawa! " said the pine-trees, " Mudway-aushka ! " said the water. Saw the fire-fly, Wah-wah-taysee, Flitting through the dusk of evening, With the twinkle of its candle Lighting up the brakes and bushes, And he sang the song of children, Sang the song Nokomis taught him ; " Wah-wah-taysee, little fire-fly, Little, flitting, white-fire insect, Little, dancing, white-fire creature, Light me with your little caudle, Ere upon my bed I lay me, Ere in sleep I close...
Page 40 - Many things Nokomis taught him Of the stars that shine in heaven; Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses; Showed the Death-Dance of the spirits, Warriors with their plumes and war-clubs, Flaring far away to northward In the frosty nights of Winter; Showed the broad white road in heaven, Pathway of the ghosts, the shadows, Running straight across the heavens, Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows. At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha; Heard the whispering of...
Page 30 - There the wrinkled old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, "Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee'." Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Page 126 - By the ford across the river; Beat his timid heart no longer, But the heart of Hiawatha Throbbed and shouted and exulted, As he bore the red deer homeward And lagoo and Nokomis Hailed his coming with applauses.
Page 14 - By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them ; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Page 114 - There he waited till the deer came, Till he saw two antlers lifted, Saw two eyes look from the thicket, Saw two nostrils point to windward, And a deer came down the pathway, Flecked with leafy light and shadow. And his heart within him fluttered Trembled like the leaves above him, Like the birch-leaf palpitated, As the deer came down the pathway. Then upon one knee uprising, Hiawatha aimed an arrow; Scarce a twig moved with his motion, Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled, But the wary roebuck started,...
Page 108 - Up the oak-tree, close beside him, Sprang the squirrel, Adjidaumo, In and out among the branches, Coughed and chattered from the oak-tree, Laughed, and said between his laughing,