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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hawk Eye, by David Cory This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hawk Eye Author: David Cory Release Date: September 20, 2010 [EBook #33772] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAWK EYE *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Patrick Hopkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: - Illustration captions in {brackets} have been added by the transcriber for reader convenience. - The position of some illustrations has been changed to better fit with the context. - Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. In all other cases spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been retained as in the original publication, except for the following: - Page 108, "re-loaded" changed to "reloaded", consistent with other instances (As Hawk Eye reloaded his gun). * * * * * [Illustration: {Cover.}] [Illustration: {Left inside cover. Family sitting outside tepee.}] [Illustration: THE SHAFTS SPED TO THEIR MARKS AND TWO BIRDS FLUTTERED AND FELL TO EARTH.] HAWK EYE BY DAVID CORY _Author of_ "LITTLE INDIAN," and others [Illustration: {Hawk Eye with rabbit.}] GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC. _All Rights Reserved_ _Printed in the United States of America_ FOREWORD There is a secure immortality and a depth of intuition in the utterance of Wordsworth, the peer of nature's poets, when from his pastoral reed he strikes the notes: "The child is father of the man." Nothing could be more insistently and persistently true of the Indian child--the girl to be the mother of warriors, the boy to become a hero and the father of future "braves." It goes back, all of it, to a heredity born of three vital and vitalizing forces. The Indian holds with steadfastness and devotion to his many and weird ceremonies, but these all lead him back to the
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