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I have broken the law and I will pay the forfeit." "How did he break the law?" I asked. "When the high-chief Loia, your brother of the four eyes, stopped the night at Tanugamanono, on his way to the shark fishing, he stayed with Tupuola, so of course it was chiefly to kill a pig in his honor." "But it was against the law.
I hastily turned the leaves, Pola questing in each one like an excited little dog, till I found the definition of his word, "to fall squash like a ripe fruit on the ground." "Palasi!" he cried, triumphantly, when he saw I understood, making a gesture downward with both hands, the while laughing heartily. "We both fell off palasi!" It was through Pola that I learned all the news of Tanugamanono.
But the village says Mata is right, for we must not let the white man's evil come near us." "Evil?" I said; "what evil?" "Drink," said Pola, solemnly. Then he told how "the ladies of Tanugamanono" bought a pig of Mr. B., a trader, each contributing a dollar until forty dollars were collected.
My brother would not have liked it, and Tupuola must have felt badly to know his house was to be looted." "He would have felt worse," said Pola, "to have acted unchiefly to a friend." We never would have known of the famine in Tanugamanono if it had not been for Pola.
"Pola, of Tanugamanono, and my mother is the white chief lady, Teuila of Vailima." He was a beautiful creature, of an even tint of light bronze-brown; his slender body reflected the polish of scented cocoanut oil, the tiny garment he called his lava-lava fastened at the waist was coquettishly kilted above one knee.
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