It was a common freak of the tribes to sacrifice the rain-maker should he be unsuccessful.

He suddenly altered his tone, and asked, "Have you any rain in your country ?" I replied that we had, every now and then.

"How do you bring it?
Are you a rain-maker ?" I told him that no one believed in rain-makers in our country, but that we understood how to bottle lightning (meaning electricity).

"I don't keep mine in bottles, but I have a houseful of thunder and lightning," he most coolly replied; "but if you can bottle lightning, you must understand rain-making.

What do you think of the weather to-day ?" I immediately saw the drift of the cunning old Katchiba; he wanted professional advice.