<Dd> Jostling seedy Eastern brigands . </Dd> <P> Another parody was "Hakawatha" (1989), by British computer scientist Mike Shields, writing under the pen name F.X. Reid, about a frustrated computer programmer . </P> <P> The poem was also parodied in three cartoon shorts, all of which featured inept protagonists who are beset by comic calamities while hunting . The connection is made plain by the scenes being introduced by a mock - solemn intonation of lines from the poem . The most famous was the 1937 Silly Symphony Little Hiawatha, whose hero is a small boy whose pants keep falling down . The 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt features Bugs Bunny and a pint - sized version of Hiawatha in quest of rabbit stew . The 1944 MGM cartoon Big Heel - watha, directed by Tex Avery, follows the overweight title character's effort to win the hand of the chief's daughter by catching Screwy Squirrel . </P>

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