Category: Short Stories
Island Tales / On the Makaloa Mat
PAGE I. ON THE MAKALOA MAT 11 II. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 52 III. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 90 IV. SHIN-BONES 119 V. THE WATER BABY 158 VI. THE TEARS OF AH KIM 176 VII. THE KANAKA SURF 202
Chapters
4. Chapter 4
“And then you know—” Hardman Pool broke off, the more effectively to impress and hypnotize the other ancient with the set stare of his pale-washed blue eyes. “They say the bones...
9. Chapter 9“‘This,’ said Ahuna, introducing me to another of my ancestors, ‘is your great-grandfather, Mokomoku, the father of Kaaukuu. Behold the size of his bones. He was a giant. I shal...
11. Chapter 11Ah Kim himself, a generation younger than his mother, had been bitten by the acid of modernity. The old order held, in so far as he still felt in his subtlest crypts of being th...
5. Chapter 5“‘I do not mind so much being the _moepuu_,’ I said to Humuhumu; ‘but I should like to have a drink before I am slain.’ I got no drink. But I spoke true. I was too sick of the m...
8. Chapter 8“I gave in. But I, too, imposed stipulations. Steadfastly had my father, new school, refused to let me go to England for my education. That sugar was slumping was reason suffici...
13. Chapter 13Returning, once, from an afternoon’s inspection of the great dry-dock building at Pearl Harbour, Lee Barton, driving his machine against time, in order to have time to dress for...
3. Chapter 3“It was the end. We had never spoken. It was the end recognized and unmentioned. The yacht waited. We were days late. Honolulu called, and the news was that the King had gone pa...
2. Chapter 2“And when I was in such moods he would gravely look me over, gravely feel my pulse, examine my tongue, gravely dose me with castor oil, and gravely put me to bed early with hot...
7. Chapter 7“Yes,” he nodded half-sadly to me, “in her last years Hiwilani went back to the old ways, and to the old beliefs—in secret, of course. And, _believe_ me, she was some collector...
10. Chapter 10“Again they listened while they waited for the Water Baby to dive in. And again the Water Baby made his prayer in the shark language to Moku-halii, and said: ‘The shark with the...
6. Chapter 6“Quite by chance,” he explained, “when my people were looking up land-records in Iapio Valley, I found a mortgage of two thousand on your holdings there—that rice land leased to...
12. Chapter 12Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no...
1. Chapter 1PAGE I. ON THE MAKALOA MAT 11 II. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 52 III. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 90 IV. SHIN-BONES 119 V. THE WATER BABY 158 VI. THE TEARS OF AH KIM 176 VII. THE KANAKA...
14. Chapter 14“Sonny rather lost his . . . his head over me,” she faltered. “Of course, you must have noticed it. And . . . and last night, he wanted me to run away with him. Which isn’t my c...