8 Ani ihora Ruto iāna e tē haere ra ’oia i hea. ’Auē ho’i teie tamāhine iti ē o tei ’ore i ara i te ’ino o teie ’ānimara. ’Eiaha ïa e hōro’a atu i te tari’a ! Pāhono atu ra teie poti’i : - Tē haere nei au e hi’o i tō’u māmā ’ū, ma te hōpoi i te tahi faraoa mōmona ’e te tahi ’āu’a pata i fa’aineinehia mai e tō’u pātea ’ino*. - Mea ātea tōna fa’aeara’a ? ani ihora ’o Ruto. - ’Ē ! Mea ātea ! pāhono mai nei ’o Fāupo’o ’Ura Iti. Tei ’ō mai i te fare tāvirira’a tītona, o tā ’oe e ’ite ra i ’ō roa, te fare mātāmua o te mata’eina’a. - Tē hina’aro ato’a nei au e haere e fārerei iāna. E haere au nā teie ’ē’a, e haere ’oe nā terā atu ’ē’a, i reira ïa tāua e ’ite ai ’o vai te tāpae nā mua. * Pātea ’ino : māmā, metua vahine He asked her where she was going. The poor child did not know that it was dangerous to stop and listen to a Wolf. She said: “I am going to visit my grandmother and bring her some cake and a jar of butter from my mother.” “Does she live far away?” the Wolf asked. “Oh! Yes!” answererd Little Red Riding Hood. “It is beyond the mill you see over there, the first house in the village.” “Well!” theWolf said, “I want to go and see her myself. I’ll go this way and you’ll go that way and we’ll see who arrives first.”
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