pau-puk-keewis

Updated: May 10, 2025

At last he put the whole thing into his pocket with a resigned air, and drove his hands through his black curls, saying, "The squire all over, GOD help him!" "What has he done now?" I asked. "Sent me twenty pounds, and forgotten to enclose it!" "Thus the merry Pau-Puk-Keewis Danced his Beggar's Dance to please them, And, returning, sat down laughing." Hiawatha.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - We and the World, Part II : A Book for Boys

One of the Indians climbed an especially high one, and, Radisson says, "being there, did shew no more then a crow." These are the sand-hills, which the Indian legend, in Longfellow's "Hiawatha," says were thrown up by Pau-puk-keewis when he blew up a whirlwind. Next the voyagers came to a very "remarquable place, a banke of Rocks that the wildmen made a sacrifice to.

William Henry Johnson - French Pathfinders in North America