The morning call., 1894-08-05

sucked the blood of many dainty bloom
like herself, tEen crushed the wilted bios
som with The clasp OF hate ana flung it to
the sharks devOuring NAV?
But. further, the Lanai maiden loved
the young lancer of Hawaii. He had in
deed pierced her people, but only the ten
der darts from his eyes, had wounded her.
Turning to him, while her glances told of
ber sudden. passionate Young love. she
said: 20 Food for the Kings! May thy
grip be as sure as the thrust. Save me
from this monster virgin-eater and [ will
catch the squid and beat the tappa for
thee all my days"
Then, while the hero of the eight isles
sat beneath the shade of a wide-Spreading
kou, the royal tree of ancient days, which
has ceased TO flourish with the chiefs who
sought its shelter, the contestants took
their places. On the smooth she'll floor
covered with cocoanut mats, stood the
bare-limbed braves stripped to the snow
white glrdle which enercied their bodies
their hot eyes of hate shot out flames of
rage. lust and blood as they stretched
forth their strangIing arms.
80 they STOOD waiting for the command
ing voice of their king, beating with heavy
fists their chests of bronze, and scowlng
face to face the glowing wish of savage
hearts to kill. Pausing, with right foot
advanced and right arm uplifted. they
shouted their gage of battle. and, as the
great Greek, or the giant who fought with
David. proclaimed to their foe now they
would rend, tear and kill and offer the
flesh of each TO glut the nav of some
wilder beasts than they.
Thus beloved the wide iaweG, scar
hrowed bone-breaker: Thou Food for
Kings l will make thee food for pigs.
Thou didst stab and slash the backs of fly
ing men, but / will break thy back upon
my knee. Then. before thy groans are
done, / will cast thy carcass to a hungry
boar; and as he tears thy wounds and
rips thy paunch, thou shalt see me wanton
with thy love before thy dying eyes,"
Thus replied the hero of the bloody leap:
"Thou breaker of the bones of girls!
Thou shalt now feel the hug of man who
will squeeze the breath out of thy vile
throat; and, after thy foul. blOtched hide
has been torn and abandoned by swine,
thou shalt join thy slain victims In the
belly of the great shark in the bay"
Now comes the command OF onset, and
EACH like crouching tiger. slowly creeps
forward ;Varms on guard and outstretched
palms in si1ewv play, like cruel claws,
striving to grip or clutch, they seek a
chance for deadly hold; then swift as the
fierce man-eater OF the deep tho Scared
child-Strangler springs, his right hand TO
the young spearman's throat. but he as
swiftly hooks the luDging arm with the
crook of his naked, glistening left. and,
whirling on this living swing. brings down
his brawny right hand. hard and fast
clenched. an iron sledge, upon the ex-
tended arm, which breaks like wand OF
straw close 10 the shoulder.
Blind with fury, the baff1ed bOne-breaker
grips lis uucrippled arms4 bout the neck Of
his foe. Then the muscles have lay. like bill
lows on bounding sea. as the young Ian
Ger strives to break the sitting clasp, and
soon the shining bodies glsten as the
sweat drips from their mighty struggle;
bnt now two strong young arms, tense
with rage, fasten themselves TO the un-
aided limb, and twist and break it like
reed Then the beaten brute, with timp
arms, turns TO flee, but swift hate is upon
him, and bands of quiveriDg steel clutch
his throat. and. pressing him down, the
hero of Kaala forces his naked knee
against the wretch's back.
a gurgle, cry, horrid groan, as the
maddened victor hugs to his breast the
hideons head with its Out-lOlling tongue;
then, with knee bored into the backward
bended spine. he strains until the jointed
homes snap ard break; then the dread
throttler of girls and babes lies prone on
the mat. broken. bloody corpse, at the
feet of Food for Kings"
R"Good," cries Puhikapa, "Our son has
the strength of KaDekoa. Now let our
daughter soothe the limbs of her lover.
Let her stroke his flesh, press his joints
and knead his back with the loving grip
and touch of the lOmilomi massage. We
will have a great feast, with the hula
dance and song; and when the hula and
the feast are over, then shall one blanket
cover TWO.
Then came forward the hula-dancing
girls with their wild refrain, praising the
hero who wins in war and lcve; with
swing and song the savage dance goes on.
At the end Of the feast and the merry
making the King covers the graceful war
rior and the beauteOus maiden with one
blanket, and they become one flesh.
Thus Kaala gained the husband of her
choice, and thus the great Kameha M cha,
warrior, statesman and king, mated the
strongest with the loveliest, the bTavest
with the fairest; thus selected the individ-
uals who, paired, were best adapted to
the conditions of their existence and the
prosperity of their offspring; thus this
noble savage fulfilled the law of nature
which demands the survival of the tittest,
when strength. courage and virtue would
be preserved among the people; and thus
the sons Of Kaala became mighty warriors
in the land like their sturdy father; and
her daughters became blossoms fair to
view, like the mother flower who bore
them.
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