=Hew=, son of Lady Helen of “Merryland town” (_Milan_), enticed by an apple presented to him by a Jewish maiden, who then “stabbed him with a penknife, rolled the body in lead, and cast it into a well.” Lady Helen went in search of her child, and its ghost cried out from the bottom of the well: The lead is wondrous heavy, mither; The well is wondrous deep: A keen penknife sticks in my heart; A word I dounae speik. Percy, _Reliques_, i. 3. =Hewit= (_Godfrey Bertram_), natural son of Mr. Godfrey Betram.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Hezekiah Grumbles=, intended by nature for a farmer; intended by parents for a clergyman; makes a soldier of himself in the Civil War 1861-65.—William M. Baker, _The Making of a Man_ (1881). =Hezekiah Bedott=, easy-going, meek and slow-spoken husband of Priscilla Bedott. “Wonderful hand to moralize, specially after he begun to enjoy poor health.”—Frances Miriam Twitcher, _The Widow Bedott Papers_ (1856). =Hiawa´tha=, the prophet teacher, son of Mudjekee´wis (_the west wind_) and Weno´nah, daughter of Noko´mis. He represents the progress of civilization among the North American Indians. Hiawatha first wrestled with Monda´min (_maize_), and, having subdued it, gave it to man for food. He then taught man navigation; then he subdued Mishe Nah´ma (_the sturgeon_), and taught the Indians how to make oil therefrom for winter. His next exploit was against the magician Megissog´non, the author of disease and death; having slain this monster, he taught man the science of medicine. He then married Minneha´ha (_laughing water_), and taught man to be the husband of one wife, and the comforts of domestic peace. Lastly, he taught man picture-writing. When the white men came with the gospel, Hiawatha ascended to the kingdom of Pone´mah, the land of the hereafter.—Longfellow, _Hiawatha_. _Hiawatha’s Moc´casins._ When Hiawatha put on his moccasins, he could measure a mile at a single stride. He had moccasins enchanted, Magic moccasins of deer-skin; When he bound them round his ankles At each stride a mile he measured. Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, iv. _Hiawatha’s Great Friends_, Chibia´bos (the sweetest of all musicians) and Kwa´sind (the strongest of all mortals).—Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, vi. =Hick´athrift= (_Tom or Jack_), a poor laborer in the time of the Conquest, of such enormous strength that he killed, with an axletree and cartwheel, a huge giant, who lived in a marsh at Tylney, in Norfolk. He was knighted, and made governor of Thanet. Hickathrift is sometimes called _Hickafric_. When a man sits down to write a history, though it be but the history of Jack Hickathrift, ... he knows no more than his heels what lets ... he is to meet with in his way.—Sterne.