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grub," answer to the French genitive partitive, 

 meaning thy portion ought to be grubs; grubs 

 being eaten by the New Zealanders when in want 

 of food produced by their industry. These grubs 

 they roast, so that the general sense will be : Take 

 grubs from the fire ; that is thy food, lazy fellow. 



5. Ta te tangata kai he kai titongi kaki mahi 

 The man's food a food a waste full work 



(genit. possess.) 



E tona ringa tino kai tino makona. 

 His hand plenty food plenty filling. 



The proverb is applied to a man that, having been 

 invited by another, leaves his house with an empty 

 belly. The sense is : This man's food is a full 

 waste, a mere nothing; but if a man is laborious 

 himself, he will always have plenty of food and 

 plenty of filling for his belly. 



6. Hohonu kaki papaku uaua to kakawai ngako nui 

 Deep gizzard thin sinews thy salmon fat much 



To aroaro tahuri ke. 

 Thy face turn away. 



This also alludes to a man desirous of eating 

 much and doing little. The original contains a 

 kind of parallel much in the manner of Hebrew 

 poetry. In the first part there is an antithesis, 

 namely, an ample stomach and puny sinews, that is 

 to say, much voracity and little strength or little 

 inclination for work : in the second part there is 

 another antithesis ; first, a fat salmon, and then the 

 impossibility of eating it by turning away the face ; 



