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THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
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MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
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MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS
BY
JOHN G. NEIHARDT
WITH NOTES
BY
JULIUS T. HOUSE
Head of the Department of English at the State Normal School, Wayne, Nebraska
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1915, 1919,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1915.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO SIGURD, SCARCELY THREE
When you are old enough to know
The joys of kite and boat and bow
And other suchlike splendid things
That boyhood’s rounded decade brings,
I shall not give you tropes and rhymes;
But, rising to those rousing times,
I shall ply well the craft I know
Of shaping kite and boat and bow,
For you shall teach me once again
The goodly art of being ten.
Meanwhile, as on a rainy day
When ‘tis not possible to play,
The while you do your best to grow
I ply the other craft I know
And strive to build for you the mood
Of daring and of fortitude
With fitted word and shapen phrase,
Against those later wonder-days
When first you glimpse the world of men
Beyond the bleaker side of ten.
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NOTE
The following narrative is based upon an episode takenfrom that much neglected portion of our history, the eraof the American Fur Trade. My interest in that periodmay be said to have begun a
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