526 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 88 
Then Halaaniani climbed up the trunk of a tree and kept watch. 
When he was up the tree, Malio’s trumpet sounded, again it sounded 
a second time, so on until the fifth time, but Halaaniani did not 
see the girl turn her eyes or listen to the sound. 
Malio waited for Halaaniani to return and tell what he had seen, 
but as he did not return, Malio again blew on the trumpet five times; 
still Halaaniani did not see Laielohelohe pay the least attention 
until she went away altogether. 
Halaaniani came back and told his sister, and his sister said, “ We 
have not won her with the trumpet; shall we try my nose flute? ” 
The two returned home, and very early in the morning, they came 
again to the same place where they had lain in ambush before. 
No sooner were they arrived than Laielohelohe arrived also at her 
customary station. Malio had already instructed her brother, as 
follows: 
“Take dehua flowers, bind them into a cluster, when you hear me 
playing the nose flute, then drop the bunch of flowers right over her; 
maybe she will be curious about this.” 
Halaaniani climbed the tree right over where Laielohelohe was 
wont to sit. Just as Malio’s nose flute sounded, Halaaniani dropped 
the bunch of Zehua flowers down from the tree, and it fell directly 
in front of Laielohelohe. Then Laielohelohe turned her eyes right 
upward, saying, “ If you are a man who has sent me this gift and this 
music of the flute, then you are mine: if you are a woman, then you 
shall be my intimate friend.” 
When Halaaniani heard this speech, he waited not a moment to 
descend and join his sister. 
To Malio’s question he told her what he had seen. 
Said Malio to Halaaniani, “ We will go home and early in the 
morning come here again, then we shall find out her intentions.” 
They went home and returned early in the morning. When they 
had taken their stations, Laielohelohe came as usual to string lehua 
blossoms. 
Then Malio sounded the fiute, as Laiclohelohe began to snip the 
lehua blossoms, and she stopped, for her attention was attracted to 
the music. 
Three times Malio sounded the nose flute. 
Then said Laielohelohe, “ If you are a woman who sounds the flute, 
then let us two kiss.” 
