The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow

WITH THE ORIGINAL POEM Illustrated by M · L · KIRK NEW YORK FREDERICK · A · STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1910, By Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved September, 1910

In this land of change it is important that we may learn a little of the childlike people who preceded us; who hunted, fished and worshipped long ago where we now make our homes and lead our lives. No other legends have so strange a charm, or such appealing local interest, as legends of the wildwood, and nowhere are these so well expressed as in Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha.
To furnish a simple medium through which both younger and older people of today may be brought closer, by Longfellow, to the mystery of the forest, this prose rendering of Hiawatha has been written. It follows closely the narrative of the poem, and in many places Longfellow's own words have been introduced into its pages, for the purpose of this volume is to awaken interest and pleasure in the poem itself.