Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 289, 25 September 1891 — Ching Chong and his Hana. [ARTICLE]

Ching Chong and his Hana.

1 There was a kanaka in Oahu di(l dwell, Who had for a daughter a mons-> trous fat gal.; With a very big iheome of poi and kukui, . . I And there was a young Pake she loved īiuinui. — J . The o!d makuakane was down on , the match, Because the young Pake had nokalo pateh, And he told her in case she did anything rash She shouldn't eat poi out of his ealabash. 3 ■ -v ■ x Now as Hana was pounding some kalo one? day Hei makuakane eame up to her and thus he did say Go dress vourself Hana in bright turkey red, l\e selected a kane v and you shall be wed. - 4 [ ; 0 makua makua do you thfnk I'm a greenv ī'll never consent to be that man's wahine And even a luau I'il gladly give o'er I ? m bound tobe single and that js pau loa. . 5 ' Hele#o «riod makua uortity [ Oe kaikamahino eioi loa no pupule rii give all my waiwai to some| other keiki* I If you doa't wed thii kaoe and th&t wikiwiki ' j- 6 : • , Now as Ching C)M&g waa walking Nuuanuaptf*and He found hifl poor sitting dead ob the ground, Wiiii a cabbssh of poi lying by her Bide, . AOA u pal»pala «tating by poiteo fitedie|t

Then Ching Chdjig he b3\ibbere<£; • ' and cklled hef is Duckv, Anwe aīi '(3rh you toake. He kissed her ooM ccrpae tinaes --l ••••.. Thea£nished the poi and'died erying f©r more* 8 Then the.eoroner eame with his — . twelve haole mea, • And seated thēmselves on those two corpses then; TJiey set there āll night and the whole of next day, Then rendered a verdiet whieh read ma^pake. ~ 9 At tw©lvo the next night near a cocoanut tree; Makua, Ching Chong and his Hana did see ? ; He took them for messengers- irom wie^old^Gratch, And drowned r himself in his own kalo pateh. 10 All you kaikaraahirie's who've heard this sad song About the aloha of Hana and Chong. Take eare your makua's are never huhu, ' • Or you will certainlv meet likepu. THE END.