🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, How the Sacred Fire Came to Witch Hill., sentence 4

There is an old stone quarry on the face of Witch Hill, where this dyke juts out like a broken castle wall of the _Patu-paiarehe_, the Dim People of long ago, and just there the old waggon track goes down over the smoothed-out hills to the Canterbury Plains and the green banks of the Opaawaho.

Who acts: old stone quarry, dyke, old waggon track · What happens: be, jut out, break, go down, smooth · To what, where: smoothed out hills

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