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Once upon a time there were two little Menehunes who lived in the cleft of a huge, square, crumbly rock; and the rock stood far, far out upon the very point of a great ridge which separated two deep, narrow canyons and jutted out into a violet-purple sea with pale green and white fringes.
The walls of the canyon were steep and buttressed like the walls of a church, and the colors were gray and lavender and mauve and vermillion with black arabesques like Indian pottery—and purple and saffron and verdigris—and pale pink and corn-color and dove gray; and they were chiffon-white where waterfalls wove and wavered their way downward, and brilliant mottled green where kukui and lehua
