for you see how our man was killed by
just a push from his hand; when he gives a real blow the man will fly
into bits. Now, I advise you to dismiss the contestants and put an end
to the game and stop challenging the stranger. So, you go up to the
stranger and shake hands,[29] you two, and welcome him, to let the
people see that the fight is altogether hushed up."

These words roused Cold-nose to hot wrath and he said: "Here! you
backers of mine, don't be afraid, don't get frightened because that man
of ours was killed by a push from his hand. Didn't I do the same thing
here some days ago? Then what are you afraid of? And now I tell you if
you fear the stranger, then hide your eyes in the blue sky. When you
hear that Cold-nose has conquered, then remember my blow called
_The-end-that-sang_, the fruit of the tree which you have never tasted,
the master's stroke which you have never learned. By this sign I know
that he will never get the better of me, the end of my girdle sang
to-day."[30]

At these words of Cold-nose his supporters said, "Where are you! We say
no more; there is nothing left to do; we are silent before the fruit of
this tree of yours which you say we have never tasted, and you say, too,
that the end of your girdle has sung; maybe you will win through your
girdle!" Then his backers moved away from the crowd.

While Cold-nose was boasting to his backers how he would overcome
Aiwohikupua, then Aiwohikupua moved up and cocked his eye at Cold-nose,
flapped with his arms against his side like a cock getting ready to
crow, and said to Cold-nose, "Here, Cold-nose! strike me right in the
stomach, four time four blows!"

When Cold-nose heard Aiwohikupua's boasting challenge to strike, then he
glanced around the crowd and saw someone holding a very little child;
then said Cold-nose to Aiwohikupua, "I am not the man to strike you;
that little youngster there, let him strike you and let him be your
opponent."

These words enraged Aiwohikupua. Then a flush rose all over his body as
if he had been dipped in the blood of a lamb.[31] He turned right to the
crowd and said, "Who will dare to defy the Kauai boy, for I say to him,
my god can give me victory over this man, and my god will deliver the
head of this mighty one to be a plaything for my paddlers."

Then Aiwohikupua knelt down and prayed to his gods as follows: "O you
Heavens, Lightning, and Rain, O Air, O Thunder and Earthquake! Look upon
me this day, the onl