, and take the rest and sell
it for taro and bread-fruit. And all this time he worked, worked with
his mother, so that he would have enough to pay for his tattooing, for
to reach his age and not be tattooed is thought a disgrace.

*****

"Now, in the chief's house was a young girl named Uluvao. She used to
meet my father by stealth, for the chief--who was her uncle--designed to
give her in marriage to a man of Siumu, who was a little chief, and had
asked him for her. So Uluvao, who dreaded her uncle's wrath, would creep
out at night from his house, and going down to the beach swim along
the shore till she came to the lonely place where my father lived. His
mother would await her coming on the beach, and then these three would
sit together in the house and talk. If a footstep sounded, then the
girl would flee, for she knew her uncle's club would soon bite into my
father's brain did he know of these stolen meetings.

*****

"One day it came about that a great _fono_ (meeting) was to be held
at Falealili, and Tuialo, the chief, and many other chiefs, and their
_tulafale_ or talking men, set out to cross the mountains to Falealili.
Six days would they be away, and Uluvao and my father rejoiced, for they
could now meet and speak openly, for the fear of the chiefs face was
not before them, and the people of the village knew my father loved the
girl, so when they saw them together they only smiled, or else turned
their faces another way. That night, in the big council house, there was
a great number of the young men and women gathered together, and they
danced and sang, and much kava was drunk. Presently the sister of the
chief, who was a woman with a bitter tongue, came to the house, and
saw and mocked at my father, and called him a c naked wretch.' (Thou
knowest, Tiaki, if a man be not tattooed we called him naked.)

"'Alas!' said my father, 'I am poor; oh, lady, how can I help it?'

"The old woman's heart softened. 'Get thee out upon the sea and catch a
fat turtle for a gift to my brother, and thou shalt be tattooed when he
returns,' she said.

"The people laughed, for they knew that turtle were not to be caught
at a silly woman's bidding. But my father rose up and went out into
the darkness towards his house. As he walked on the sand his name was
called, and Uluvao ran by his side.

"'Lauati,' she said, 'let me come with thee. Let us hasten and get thy
canoe, and seek a turtle on Nu'ulua and Nu'utele, for the nigh