Wit go kusu - the octopus and the rat 

I want to tell you, Nick, I'll tell you about the rat and the octopus.

One day, it was low tide.

It was low tide, a really low tide.

There was a reef that lay around an island.

This island was in the sea, but the tide was out.

When the tide was really low,

very low, the reef was dry right around

right up to the small island.

But the rat, this rat, it was from Efate.

It saw that the tide was out. It was happy, he wanted to walk along the reef.

That's why the rat walked along the reef, until

it got to the small island.

It walked to the small island. It walked and it felt the wind.

It felt the wind along the side of the island, and

it rested there.

It stayed, rested for a long time, and the tide started to come in.

The tide came in, but as

he felt the wind, he thought he would return.

He came, but the the tide was too high.

The tide was too high so that he couldn't cross.

Because the tide was too high.

A wave came in

and the rat ran around.

It ran around, it wanted

to cross, but it couldn't.

And now the octopus came.

The octopus came and saw that he was running around.

And the octopus asked him,

"But what are you doing? Do you want to go to the other side?"

And the rat said, "Yes, I sleep, I stay on the other side.

I stay on Efate

But I come over here for a rest."

So the rat kept running around the island, but

the octopus saw the rat.

When the octopus wanted to come,

it came to the shore and it said, "What are you doing?"

And the rat said, "My life is on Efate.

But I saw that the tide is really low.

I walked over the reef and came, I felt the wind from the small island, and

I stayed and rested until now.

I thought I could get back but the tide was too high.

And I couldn't cross back because the tide was too high."

And the octopus asked the rat, "Do you want me to help you?"

And the rat said, "If you would help me it would be very good."

It said, "Come and sit on my neck."

Come and sit on my neck and I will go across."

So the rat sat down.

The octopus carried the rat and put it on Efate.

But when it was in the ocean the waves were too big.

Because the wave came and took them up high.

And the octopus's head was swaying.

The octopus's head was swaying, and the rat decided he wanted it.

The rat wanted the head of the octopus.

And the octopus said, "What do you want?"

And the rat said, "I wanted the wave to take us up high."

They kept on going until they were in the middle of the sea.

But the wave was strong.

It took them like this and the octopus's head swayed again.

And the rat again thought about

the octopus's head, and wanted it, and the octopus said, "What do you want?"

The rat said, "No, I want the wave to take us, it was up high but it went down again."

And they kept on going until they got to the shore.

The rat saw that it could jump into the middle of the sand.

It stood on the octopus's head and jumped.

It jumped to the middle of the sand, and it saw the octopus in the sea and said to the octopus,

"I want your head."

The rat wanted the octopus's head because the wave had taken,

it had taken it like this, and the head had continued to move about, to sway.

It said, "I still want your head."

And the octopus got angry with the rat.

It got angry with the rat, and it took off a tentacle and whipped,

it slung it at the rat.

It slung the rat with it and that's the octopus's ninth tentacle, that he made the rat's tail.

The octopus had nine tentacles.

But it wanted to take off one of them to sling it at the rat. And the rat put on its tail, it became its tail,

(The octopus) it had eight tentacles.

And their story finishes here.