tahuna i Patangata kia puta ai te wai o te roto ki te moana. I te paunga o te wai katahi ka timata mai tetahi haruru, a maringi mai ana te ua. Ko te korero a nga koroheke, ko te roto tenei e tangi ana mo te wai me nga kai i pau atu nei ki te moana. Ko tetahi ano o ana mahi he puta mai ki ana whanaunga a nga wa kakari ai ratou mo a ratou pa tuna. Tenei putanga mai he whakaatia i na kanohi whero i roto i te wai, a i nga wa penei arahi ai a ia i nga tuna, kahore ki nga hinaki a ona whanaunga, engari ki nga hinaki e etahi ke. A nga wa e tata ana tetahi o ana uri ki te mate, ka kitea ona makawe i roto i te wai. Inaianei kaore he makawe engari he huruhuru manu ke. E whakapono ana nga koroheke kei roto tonu te taniwha nei i te puna, no te mea kei te riri tonu te wai a i etahi wa he waikura tonu te ahua o te wai. A nga wa e maroke ai tenei puna kua haere a Karitake ki tera o ana kainga ki Apoho. Ahakoa kino katoa nga whenua i a Karitake i aua wa, no enei wa kahore a ia i pera engari e tumanako ana kia kaua e pera ana uri. Ara kia kaua e whakakino i nga whenua. Kahore nga uri i aro ki tenei ahua otira tokorima nga tamariki e kori ana i runga i nga paritai o nga awakeri i Apoho. Te ratou mahi he kari haere i te oneone nga wahi i whakatapua nei e Karitake. Nga tane ko Chum Munro, ko Darky Nohinohi, ko Wiremu Raureti, ko nga wahine ko Molly me tana whaea ko Harata. I a ratou e keri haere ana ka mahi ratou i tetahi ana hei toa hoko mea ma ratou. He mahi takaro noa iho ra a ka inoi atu nga tahae nei ki nga wahine kia kuhu ki roto ki te ana ki te hoko mea ma raua. I mua i tenei katahi ka haere a Darky ki runga ki te ana, taka takahi ai, waiata ai, kanikani ai. No te mutunga ka hoki a ia ki te ana a no te nohoanga ka moe a Harata, katahi ka haruru te whenua ka Karitake has not been so wild as she used to be and that she has been behaving excellently, and has even reformed with the hope that none of her relations would ill-treat the soil as she had done in the past. Finally, concluding this story here is the punishment she inflicted on her relations, five of whom one day in their childhood played foolishly on the banks of the Opoho drains. They took big spades and began digging carelessly into the soil uprooting everything which had been treated as tapu by Karitake. The boys namely Chum Munro, Darky Nohinohi, William Raureti, decided to shape their diggings into a cave, which they pretended was a big house or shop and playfully begged their companion Molly and the old mother Charlotte to go in and buy their goods. Before doing so, for some unknown reason, Darky the younger one of the boys climbed to the top of their cave and here began stamping, singing and dancing to tunes he was whistling. When he had finished he returned inside their “house” and the moment he sat down, Charlotte was put to sleep by a strange spell and after followed a rumbling noise of the earth which caved down and hid the three boys from the sight of Molly and her other companions. There was wailing and being small children they grew more afraid. With much effort they managed to waken Charlotte who, suddenly realising danger began attempting to dig the boys out, and it was not until after a long struggle that Chum was found, and taken down to the water to be bathed and restored to health. Darky was next and treated likewise. By the time William was reached, he had died through suffocation, and though they bathed and bathed his head, he never ever came back to life. Today there are only three people left to tell this story.