•28 Ti'cmmclions. — MisccUancons. 



^•If they Mill not let you," slio added, "tell them that I sent you because I 

 wished to be alone with my child." 80 the girl went. But the common 

 people would not let her sleep there, ai-guing that, as she was the nurse of 

 a sacred child, it was against the rule of the tcqni that she should sleep in a 

 house among common people. But the girl said, " Hine has told me to 

 sleep here because she wished to bo alone. And as for the child being 



tajnt^ that might be if it had a father; but a child without a father ." 



At last she was ]->erQiitted to stay. 



The door of ITine-te-iwaiwa's house was a slab of polished greenstone, and 

 had, therefore, a metallic sound when moved. In the night a noise was heard 

 as of the door being oi)ened. Then some of the common people called out, 

 '•Hine! who is there that opens the door of your house?" "I myself," she 

 replied, " I wanted to go out." But it was Tinirau, who had found his wife 

 and child. Next morning she called all the people together, saying *' Come 

 and see your brother-in-law." Then there was a great meeting and crying to 

 welcome the stranger, the husband of Hine-te-iwaiwa and father of that 

 wonderful child, that was made so much of by all the [)eople of the place. 

 Now Tinirau abode at that place. It is still the feeling among the Maori — 

 and Europeans who have lived long among them feel it too, — that when there 

 is one child, a descendant of high chieftainship, everyone in the community is 

 concerned about that child. 



We must now return to Kae, whom we left riding away over the sea on 

 the back of Tutunui, Tinirau's pet tish. "When he came near shore, and the 

 water began to shoal, Tutunui shook his back, intimating to Kae that he must 

 now get off. But Kae, contrary to his promise to Tinirau, kept his seat and 

 nrged the fish on toward the shore. When they came into shallow water the 

 lish ke])t on shaking to got Kae off; but he hekl on. and drove the fish still 

 further into the shallow water; when at last liis gills were filled with smid. 

 and h(i died. Then Kae cut him up and roasted and ate him. 



While Tinirau's mind was occupied with seeking his wife and child he had 

 no time to trouble about his pet (ish; but now, since he had found them, and 

 when the crying over the reunion was over, he became uneasy about Tutunui, 

 and what might have become of him. Day after day he sat on the brow of 

 the headland and looked over the sea, and snifled at every wind, but no simi of 

 liis lish would come to him. At last the south wind blew, and then a savoury 

 smell was wafted to him from some distant shore. Then he knew at once tha( 

 it was the savour of Tutunui, his fish and ancestor, being roasted by Kae. 

 He went homo crying, '-O! the savour of Tutunui, that the wind is bringin^^ 

 to n>e!" Then all the women of the place gathered together and assisted 

 Tinirau, crvinc; over the death of liis ancestor. 



