Our Little Hawaiian Cousin

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Wade Mary Hazelton Blanchard. Our Little Hawaiian Cousin

CHAPTER I. A HAPPY CHILD

CHAPTER II. AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN

CHAPTER III. SURF-RIDING

CHAPTER IV. QUARTERLY REVIEW

CHAPTER V. AUWAE'S SCHOOL

CHAPTER VI. LONG AGO

CHAPTER VII. THE COMING OF THE WHITE MEN

CHAPTER VIII. THE DIVER

CHAPTER IX. STORIES OF OLDEN TIME

CHAPTER X. UP THE MOUNTAIN

CHAPTER XI. THE VOLCANO

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Little Auwae is beautiful; but, better than that, much better, she has no thought of it herself.

She sits in front of her low cottage home singing a soft sweet song, weaving a garland of scarlet flowers to adorn her head. As she carefully places each bud on the string, she looks up at the American flag floating in the breezes not far away.

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She makes a pretty picture, the little girl with her simple white dress, beneath which the bare brown feet are seen, – those feet which have never yet been pressed out of shape by stiff, tight casings of leather.

I call it a house, yet many speak of it as a hut. It is a low building whose sides and high sloping roof are thatched with grasses. Few such are made nowadays in Hawaii, for the people are fast following the example of the white settlers, and now build their cottages of wood, and divide them into rooms, so that they look like the homes commonly found in New England villages.

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