For instance, he will labor for wages; but he will persistently and for years give away to his relations all his pay except what he needs for his actual subsistence, and if he is prosperous he is pretty sure to have quite a swarm of people to support.

A lady told me that having repeatedly clothed her nurse in good apparel, and finding this liberal soul, every time, in a day or two reduced to her original somewhat shabby clothing, she at last reproached her for her folly.

"What can I do ?" the woman replied; "they come and ask me for the holaku, or the handkerchief, or whatever I have.

Suppose you say they are yours--then I will not give them away." Accordingly, the next new suit was formally declared to belong to the mistress: it was not given away.

An old woman, kept chiefly for her skill in lomi-lomi by an American family, asked her master one day for ten dollars.