"Very dear to Hiawatha
Was the gentle Chibiabos.
"And then another of your friends should be the very strong man Kwasind, and then, of course, there must be Laughing Water, Minnehaha, and the old arrow-maker, her father."
"Would it be a Hiawatha party or an Indian party?"
"Neither, John, because all of Longfellow's people should come. The only reason I have been talking about Hiawatha was because we might as well fix your character at once."
"Oh, that's the how of things. Are you sure there would be enough characters to go around?"
"Without a doubt, John;" and then, with an affectionate gesture on her big boy, Mrs. Colfax added, "I guess somebody that I know would better read Longfellow's poems over again."
"I am sort o' rusty. I suppose, too, that would be the only way to advise a fellow as to his get-up."
"It would be the best way; for example, in the Tales of the Wayside Inn we read
"But first the Landlord will I trace;
Grave in his aspect and attire;
"and