So all the fish swam home and all the birds flew home to the East, to the West, to the North, to the South. They swam and flew.
Everything was just the same as it was in the beginning.
Only they had all learned an important lesson, a lesson about how much they need each other.
From the day forth, the birds and the fish of the world remembered and lived together in harmony.
And they never did find out if there were more whales than plovers in the world.
No laila, ua ho'i akula na i'a i ka Hikina, i Kumuhana, i ka 'Akau a ka Hema. Ua ho'i akula na manu.
Ua pono a maluhia hou e like me ka mau.
Eia na'e, ua a'o 'ia no he ha'awina nui, 'o ia ho'i ka noho 'ana a me ke ola 'ana me ka lokahi a me ke aloha.
Mai kela la aku, 'a'ole i poina na manu a me na i'a o ka honua i ia ha'awina a ua noho pu lakou i ka maluhia.
A 'a'ole no i pane 'ia ka ninau, 'o ka mea hea ka mea laha loa, 'o ke kohola paha, 'o ke kolea no paha.
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