Natrauswen ni of go makou - the heron and the prawn 

Nick, I want to tell you a story, the story of the heron.

I want to tell you the story of the heron

The child of the heron,

we know that

the heron, when the tide is out

When the tide is out, it will be there.

until, the tide is out, until

just until it starts to turn, or, the tide would start to come in.

And it would be the time the heron would go to the sea to look for fish.

And one day, one day

this heron was there, and with its chick they were both there.

But the tide was out.

On and on and the tide was out in the afternoon.

Then the heron saw that the sea was starting to come in.

And it asked its mother, it asked its mother, it said,

"I would like to go looking for fish in the sea."

And the mother said, "No, you can't because you are small."

But it was the afternoon. And the sea was coming in.

And the heron's chick said, "No, I want to go and find some fish."

And it's mother said, "No, I don't agree that you go there."

But the heron's chick was strong. It wanted to go to the sea.

It wanted to go and it's mother let it go.

It went to the sea.

And this small animal is one who is at the end of the reef.

It stays on the reef. And it has its hole, a long hole that goes straight down.

This animal, they call it makou (shrimp)

They call it makou and it has two long claws.

One goes one way and the other the other way. When the tide is in the shrimps will come too, because the tide is high.

It pushes its long claws.

And as the heron looked for fish, it looked everywhere.

The small heron looked around and didn't see the shrimp.

It walked straight over the shrimp's hole, but the shrimp pushed its claws out.

When it walked right on the shrimp's hole, the shrimp grabbed its legs, it held them.

But now it couldn't pull its leg out.

Because the shrimp had hold of it.

It tried to free its leg, but the sea kept rising.

The small heron couldn''t.

It started, because it saw that the tide was coming in.

And it started to cry. It cried, and it made it into a song.

And its song, it made it into this song.

It said, its song said,

But the tide was rising.

The tide was coming in but the shrimp held the heron, it held it tight.

It wanted to go and it sang again.

So that song is his crying.

But a turtle was swimming and raised its head, it saw the heron there.

It dived down.

But the tide was rising.

The turtle dived down and came up next to the heron.

It went up and talked to the heron. It said, "What's up?"

And the heron said to it, "I came to look for fish.

I looked for fish but the shrimp grabbed my foot.

I can't move, but the tide is coming in."

And the turtle asked it, "But do you want me to help you?"

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

And the turtle then dived down.

It dived down and bit it. It bit the shrimp's claw.

And the shrimp let the heron's foot go.

Then the turtle gave it to the heron above.

It gave the heron the leg when it saw that it could let it go.

And it left the sea. It flew away.

It flew and went to see its mother.

And its mother asked, "What's up?"

That you came so early

But it then said, "Oh my mother, you came and told me that

I shouldn't go, but I disobeyed.

I went, but I got into trouble, but

(the turtle) helped me, it found me and it helped me.

It bit the shrimp and the shrimp lost its leg.

Took me up, that's how I came."

And that is the end of our story.