"I give them rain if they don't give me goats?
You don't know my people.

If I am fool enough to give them rain before they give me the goats, they would let me starve! No, no! let them wait.

If they don't bring me supplies of corn, goats, fowls, yams, merissa, and all that I require, not one drop of rain shall ever fall again in Obbo! Impudent brutes are my people! Do you know, they have positively threatened to kill me unless I bring the rain?
"They shan't have a drop.

I will wither the crops and bring a plague upon their flocks.

I'll teach these rascals to insult me!" With all this bluster, I saw that old Katchiba was in a great dilemma, and that he would give anything for a shower, but that lie did not know how to get out of the scrape.