The Man who built a Waka

Last week Mr Gunn told us a story when a man's father died, just after  his funeral  he took him home from the funeral and wanted to build a waka for his father. So he went to build a waka, he saw a tree and said '' i'm going to cut this totra down for my father and make a waka out of it so he chopped down the totra down and said '' i'll come back tomorrow to skin the tree so he went back home. The next he went back the totra was standing strate again like it never happened so he chopped it down again and skinned it like weaving it and taking the branches off it to but it was getting dark so he headed home. Next day he remembered were he chopped the totra  was standing strate as a stick and he said '' hold on '' and  got his chain sour and chopped it down again and did it and said '' i'm going to stay and hide in the bushes and find out what  is happening and he saw all the animals all putting the tree back up and he jumped out and said '' that's my waka'' the animals said ''you have to pray before just cutting down the totra you only thort for your self and none else'' so he thort about it while he was walking home  saying sorry and the animals felt sorry for him and his dad so they built a waka specially for him so he could take his father and berry him  and he went back the next to grab his tools and right their the animals left a brand new waka and he prayed thankyou.