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As the wild thing ran from the dash of an incoming wave, by some chance the gourd that held her fish slipped from her and the retreating water carried it beyond her reach, a loss that she lightly touched in her song:

There was a shark lurking in the ocean and when Mana-mana-ia-kalu-ea saw it she uttered a little song: