"What do we do?" the Hawaiian stilt asked the plover as the land disappeared from under their feet.
The plover looked back and forth across the ocean and over and under the sea.
"We will drink up all the water in the ocean," said the plover. "Then the fish and whales will not be able to survive."
It took a lot more time to eat the land than to drink the ocean. So the birds finished first.
They drank all the water in the ocean. And with no water to live in, the whale and the sharks and the tuna and jack and all the fish wriggled and gasped.
"He aha ka kakou e hana ai?" i ninau akula ai ke ae'o i ke kolea 'oiai e nalowale ana ka 'aina kahi o lakou i ku ai.
Ua nana ihola ke kolea i ke kai.
"E inu ihola ana kakou i ke kai a pau," i kauoha aku ai ke kolea. "I hiki 'ole i na i'a a me na kohola ke ola."
Ua 'oi aku ka 'awiwi o ka inu 'ana i ke kai ma mua o ka 'ai 'ana.
Ua pau loa ke kai i ka inu 'ia a ua waiho wale 'ia na kohola, na mano, a me no i'a a pau ma ke one e 'oni'oni a hanu pa'a ana no ka mea 'a'ohe kai e ola ai lakou.
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