LITTLE METACOMET OR THE INDIAN PLAYMATE BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1904, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY. _Published September, 1904._ CONTENTS. I. TIMID SUSAN AND HER NEIGHBORS II. LITTLE METACOMET III. HAYSTACK FRIENDSHIP IV. ANOTHER VISIT TO THE HERMIT V. HOW THE HERMIT TAMED BIRDS VI. THE FEATHERED CAT VII. LITTLE METACOMET'S QUAIL VIII. LITTLE METACOMET VISITS THE WHITE-WINGED BLACKBIRD IX. LITTLE METACOMET'S BLUE ROBIN X. THE CAT IN THE BAG--THE FROG RACE XI. THE SCHOOL OF THE WOODS XII. A FLYING MOUSE XIII. LITTLE METACOMET SEES HIMSELF IN A LOOKING-GLASS XIV. ROGERS GOES TO THE INDIAN RACES XV. THE THUNDER BIRD XVI. THE TREE TRAP XVII. AN INDIAN CLAMBAKE XVIII. THE HEART OF MASSASOIT XIX. THE INDIANS PASS BY XX. KING PHILIP'S FORT XXI. DARK DAYS FOR LITTLE METACOMET XXII. ROGER PARTS WITH LITTLE METACOMET XXIII. SUSAN IS TIMID NO LONGER XXIV. TO THE PALM LANDS PREFACE The author's purpose in writing this book for young people is to picture life in the New England woods in old Indian days, when barbarism was passing under the influence of civilization. His mother passed a part of her girlhood at Mt. Hope, and he was born near the Mt. Hope Lands, at Warren, R. I., the Sowams of Massasoit, who protected the Pilgrims and sheltered Roger Williams when the latter was forming his views of liberty of conscience, or soul freedom, which have entered into the constitution of every republic in the world. He used to roam in the green groves of Swansea, has often met the last of the Wampanoags at Lakeville, and as often pictured in his own mind the charming life of an Indian boy in the green woods around the Mt. Hope and Narragansett Bays in the days of the forest kings.