Excerpt from The White Canoe: And Other Legends of the Ojibways T is finished! The wonderful First Book which has hovered in the background of my im agination as the goal of all achievement ever since my youthful ambition was first fired by reading of Mr. F inney's illustrious turnip. Its form, however, has undergone some changes. In 'those days the Book was a volume of poems bound in green and gold, with my portrait as a frontispiece and an autograph underneath that nobody could read. It is useless to enumerate the causes which led to this modification; the Critic doesn't need them, and the Gentle Reader wouldn't appreciate them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.