. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. erhead 38 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA and many below us, in the valley between our hill andothers, south of the river; with wavijig arms, swayingbody and nimble feet he illustrated the sacred pigeondance of the redmen in America, based upon the flightof their sacred bird; in soft cadences he sang the songof *Wah-ho-pah, and in solemn words explained thewonderful birds and their beneficence t
. The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state. erhead 38 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA and many below us, in the valley between our hill andothers, south of the river; with wavijig arms, swayingbody and nimble feet he illustrated the sacred pigeondance of the redmen in America, based upon the flightof their sacred bird; in soft cadences he sang the songof *Wah-ho-pah, and in solemn words explained thewonderful birds and their beneficence to his race, andto their ancestors when they began Hfe upon the earth;how a warriors hair must not be lost, for it representsthe feathers of the sacred bird and preserves his soulfor the immortal bliss of the Happy Hunting the hair is lost there can be no blessed im-mortality, for on the journey after death they wouldbecome confused and take the wrong trail, followedby all who offend the Great Spirit—the trail that hadno end and led to no place, an eternity of was all the punishment the evil spirit, Hobomock,could inflict upon man. • ^-—rff^-i^.-c-T ,. ?m j^^ -
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