
Freckles could easily have been a herding dog, but since there is no work for her to do, she loves to spends her mornings in bed.
He ʻīlio welu moe poli.
“A well-fed dog that sleeps in the bosom.”
Said of a well-fed pet dog or of a person who is able to work but is too pampered to want to.
Source: ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, by Mary Kawena Pukui.
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