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to the place, was entitled to such a consideration. One evening, when Hine, 

 with some other women, was sitting by the fire, one of them said to her, 

 "Your husband seems to take it very easy; he never goes to work to get food 

 for you/' At this casual remark Hine felt sorely offended. She went away, 

 and was afterwards found by her husband, sitting alone and crying. He asked 

 her what the matter was : and she told him that she had been so much hurt by 

 having heard the people grumbling about him that he never worked to get 

 food for her. "0," said he, "do not take it so seriously; we will satisfy 



them." 



That evening Tinirau said to Hine, " To-morrow you tell your people to go 

 to the forest and cut down trees, and carry the timber home, and build 

 torehouses and stages for food." Hine did so; and the people obeyed her. 

 The work went on; day after day timber was cut and brought home, and 

 stores and stages were built. The people began to grumble, saying, " Wher. 

 is the food that is to be stored." Still Hine, at the instigation of her 

 husband, kept them at work, till the grumbling became very bad, when they 

 were told they might leave off and rest. 



In the evening Tinirau wont to the sea beach, with a new hmati (pieces 

 of wood by the friction of which lire is produced), and performed his enchant- 

 ments till late at night. When the charm was well laid on he went home, and 

 and the sc began to throw out fishes. The first fish fell in the yard of the 

 private house, where the child and its parents lived, but the rest fell on the 

 new stages. That night the people in the common house were still talking 

 about the useless work they had performed in erecting those stages when 

 there was no food to be stored, when they were startled by a strange noise, 

 a continuous bumping on the new built stores, with sounds like live fish 

 kicking with their tails on dry ground. The night was so dark, and the nois« 

 so awful, that no one ventui I to go out. By and by there was a crash of i 

 store breaking down under the weight of the fish; still the bumping and 

 kicking went on, even close before their door, and then there was another 

 crash and break down of a whata or store. So a fearful night was pas d. 

 With the breaking of the day the sounds had ceased ; and when the people 

 opened the door, there was a sight ! Fish and broken down stores wer« 

 mixed into a huge heap. There was no road for the people, they had to climb 

 over the heap of a confusion of fish ami broken timber. 



But the yard of the child's house was clear. There was only on« Bsb, %h 



before the door of the honso 



