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 And so, laughing, they clapped their hands over their mouths and ran toward their cleft; but suddenly a gleam of moonlight flicked across the path of one. He stopped and struggled for a moment with the hand over his mouth, and then called out: "I've got to say it—it will come out: " and dived into his cleft.

The other called after him: "Then I have one more turn, listen: Aloha."

From low on the horizon the moon sent forth a long white ray, reaching far up the canyon, and there gleamed softly into life a lunar rainbow, its dream-tinted radiance arching above the filmy waterfall whose mists were wavering upward in the canyon wind, and from the forests where the dim line of the mountain met a sky of mingled dawn and moonlight, there came down the elepaio's faint, far call—that day had come.