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 BASSETT'S SCRAP BOOK 261 Strong of arm was Hiawatha; He could shoot ten arrows upward And the tenth had left the bow-string Ere the first to earth had fallen. Swift of foot was Hiawatha; He could shoot an arrow from him And run forward with such swiftness. That the arrow fell behind him. Neglecting the resistance of the air and granting that Hiawatha could shoot one arrow a second, the record is as follows : The time of flight of the arrows shot upward must have been nine seconds. Therefore the velocity with which they were shot, being equal to the time multi- plied into half the value of the constant of gravity, was 144 feet a second. Now, in shooting an arrow from him Hiawatha, to obtain the farthest flight, would let fly at an angle of 45 degrees, and by a simple trigonometrical calcula- tion we therefore arrive at the fact that the horizontal velocity of the arrow would be 102 feet a second. Hiawatha would, therefore, have to run faster than this. Could he do it on a sprint? I live to greet that season By gifted men foretold, When men shall live by reason And not alone by gold; When, man to man united And every wrong thing righted, This whole world shall be lighted, As Eden was of old. I live for every cause that lacks assistance. For every wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance And the good that I can do. — Geo. L. Banks.