Note 54 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

If a child was born in the Mahoe-mua54 and the Mahoe-hope,55 he would be a man who sometimes indulged in doing mischief, and sometimes a man of good behavior. He was fond of agriculture and fishing. If he did mischief in the first place, all his future acts would be of evil. If good behavior was his first act and an evil deed the second he would continue in evil deeds till death; his mind would not revert back to his first act.