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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.