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Title: Hawk Eye

Author: David Cory

Release Date: September 20, 2010 [EBook #33772]

Language: English

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[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