eep until
the sun was high in the heavens, and then rise and find the bundles
of cooked food ready for him. But for a plain man, the only thing
to do is to cultivate the soil and plant, and when he returns from
his work let him light his oven, and when the food is cooked let the
husband and the wife crouch about the hearth and eat together."

Again, very early on the following morning, while his wife slept,
Kaopele rose, and going to the house of a neighbor, borrowed a fishhook
with its tackle. Then, supplying himself with bait, he went a-fishing
in the ocean and took an enormous quantity of fish. On his way home
he stopped at the house where he had borrowed the tackle and returned
it, giving the man also half of the fish. Arrived at home, he threw
the load of fish onto the ground with a thud which waked his wife
and parents.

"So you have been a-fishing," said his wife. "Thinking you had again
gone to work in the field, I went up there, but you were not there. But
what an immense plantation you have set out! Why, the whole plain
is covered."

His father-in-law said, "A fine lot of fish, my boy."

Thus went life with them until the crops were ripe, when one day
Kaopele said to his wife, who was now evidently with child, "If the
child to be born is a boy, name it Kalelealuaka; but if it be a girl,
name it as you will, from your side of the family."

From his manner she felt uneasy and suspicious of him, and said,
"Alas! do you intend to desert me?"

Then Kaopele explained to his wife that he was not really going to
leave her, as men are wont to forsake their wives, but he foresaw
that that was soon to happen which was habitual to him, and he felt
that on the night of the morrow a deep sleep would fall upon him
(_puni ka hiamoe_), which would last for six months. Therefore,
she was not to fear.

"Do not cast me out nor bury me in the ground," said he. Then he
explained to her how he happened to be taken from Oahu to Kauai and how
he came to be her husband, and he commanded her to listen attentively
to him and to obey him implicitly. Then they pledged their love to
each other, talking and not sleeping all that night.

On the following day all the friends and neighbors assembled, and as
they sat about, remarks were made among them in an undertone, like
this, "So this is the man who was placed on the altar of the _heiau_
at Wailua." And as evening fell he bade them all _aloha_, and said
that he should be separated