The Trail of the Hawk

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The Table of Contents is not part of the original book.

In page 212 there is an incomplete sentence "Poor Tad was". This

sentence is incomplete in this book as well as the many editions

verified.

[Illustration: [See page 290

THE COLD BREEZE ENLIVENED THEM, THE STERNNESS OF THE SWIFT, CRUEL

RIVER AND MILES OF BROWN SHORE MADE THEM GRAVELY HAPPY.]

THE TRAIL OF

THE HAWK

A COMEDY

OF THE SERIOUSNESS

OF LIFE

BY

SINCLAIR LEWIS

AUTHOR OF

OUR MR. WRENN

HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK

Copyright, 1915, by Harper &Brothers

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TO THE OPTIMISTIC REBELS THROUGH WHOSE TALK AT LUNCHEON THE AUTHOR WATCHES THE MANY-COLORED SPECTACLE OF LIFE-GEORGE SOULE, HARRISON SMITH, ALLAN UPDEGRAFF, F. K. NOYES, ALFRED HARCOURT, B. W. HUEBSCH.

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Part I. THE ADVENTURE OF YOUTH

THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK