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I mua, i reira tētahi rangatira e hiahia ana ki te moe i tētahi rangatira wahine; engari me noho hei rangatira wahine tūturu. I haereere ia puta noa i te ao ki te kimi i tētahi, engari kāore i kitea e ia tana i hiahia ai. He nui ngā rangatira wahine, engari he uaua ki te kimi mēnā he rangatira wahine tūturu rātou. He mea tonu kei roto i a rātou kāore i rite ki te tikanga. Nō reira, ka hoki mai ia ki te kāinga, ā, ka pouri, nā te mea i tino hiahia ia ki tētahi rangatira wahine tūturu.

I tētahi ahiahi ka pā mai he awha nui; ka pā te whatitiri me te uira, ā, ka ua nui haere. Kātahi ka rangona he patuki i te kūaha o te tāone, ā, ka haere te kīngi tawhito ki te whakatuwhera.

He rangatira wahine e tū ana i waho i mua i te kūaha. Āe, aroha mai! He tino ataahua te āhua o te ua me te hau i puta mai ai ki a ia. I rere te wai i ōna makawe me ōna kākahu; i rere ki raro ki ngā rekereke o ōna hu, ā, i puta anō ki ngā rekereke. Heoi anō, i mea ia he rangatira wahine tūturu ia.

"Āe, ka kitea wawetia tēnā e tātou," te whakaaro o te kuīni tawhito. Engari kāore ia i kōrero, ka haere ki te rūma moe, ka tangohia ngā moenga katoa i runga i te moenga, ka whakatakotoria he pī ki raro; kātahi ka tangohia e ia e rua tekau ngā moenga ka whakatakotoria ki runga i te pī, ā, e rua tekau ngā moenga huruhuru hipi ki runga i ngā moenga.

I takoto te rangatira mō tēnei mea i te pō katoa. I te ata ka pātaihia ia me pēhea tana moe.

"Āe, tino kino rawa atu!" i mea ia. "Kāore au i katia ōku kanohi i te pō katoa. Ko te rangi anake e mōhio ana he aha kei roto i te moenga, engari i takoto ahau i runga i tētahi mea mārō, ā, pango ana, kikorangi ana tōku tinana katoa. He whakamataku!"

Kātahi rātou ka mōhio he tino rangatira ia, nā te mea kua whāwhā ia i te pī i roto i ngā moenga e rua tekau me ngā moenga huruhuru e rua tekau.

Kāore he tangata i tua atu i te rangatira tūturu e taea te ngākau aroha pēnei.

Nā reira i tangohia ai ia e te rangatira hei wahine māna; i te mea kua mōhio ia he rangatira tūturu tāna; ā, ka whakatakotoria te pī ki te whare taonga, ki te wāhi e kitea tonutia ana, ki te mea kāore i tahaetia e tetahi.

Āe, he kōrero pono tēnā.