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 hold not that one which swings, but rather that which has struck its fibres into the earth.” So saying, she floated upwards, clasping her babe to her breast, and was lost to sight.

Tawha remained mourning, and refused to be consoled. Moon after moon shone and waned, but still sorrow was a shadow over his heart continually. Kari looked on his sad brother until he could bear the sight of his despairing grief no longer, and said, “Let us two set out to discover the way to the heavenly country.” They set out together, and passed along till they came to the end of the country wherein mortals dwell, and there they saw great tendrils of a vine hanging down from heaven to earth. Kari grasped at one of the tendrils and swung on it, but was blown upon instantly by unholy winds, which swept him into the outer darkness hither and thither, till at last he was whirled violently back upon the earth again. Tawha remembered the words which Hapai had left as her memento to him; so he strongly grasped the tendril which had taken root in the ground, and swung himself upward. With firm nervous fingers he drew himself upward and upward till he had gained the floor of the heavenly world. There he found a forest growing as it would on our terrestrial soil, and seeing people moving among