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Long Island

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  • Title: Long Island
  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03409
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Laura Beerits Ty Alyea Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Long Island." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 29 October 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03409.xml (TEI)

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Long Island.—40 and 50 years ago it was customary for Indian women, "squaws," to go round mending and straw‑bottoming chairs.— They carried the rushes on their backs and went from house to house.— Mother mentions that there came to her father's in her young days, one of the most beautiful young women she ever saw—a squaw with a load of rushes on her back, asking a job in the chair‑mending.— She never returned.

Sometimes the squaws would bring their papooses strapped on their backs also.— silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.—

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