The flim and the flam
Of the Woman-in-green,
Handmaid to the man
Who loveth the Queen.
If Wahine-oma’o had, of set purpose, planned an ironical take off of the hula kilu, or rather of Lohiau’s manner of acting, she could hardly have bettered her performance. Her dancing was a grotesque ambling and mincing from one side of the theater to the other. The unaffected good humor of the girl robbed the arrow of her wit of all venom while detracting not one whit from its effectiveness.
Towards morning the audience made clamorous demands that Hiiaka, the woman whom their suffrage had declared to be the most beautiful that had ever stood before them, should present herself before them once again. Hiiaka willingly responded to this encore:
Ku’u kane i ka makani hau alia
O Maka-huna i Hua-wá, e:
Wa iho la; ke wa wale mai la no
Kaua hilahila moe awa-kea