The clouds usually lie in one direction, and your smoke goes in another.

God alone can command the clouds.

Only try and wait patiently; God will give us rain without your medicines.
R.D.Mahala-ma-kapa-a-a!! Well, I always thought white men were wise till this morning.

Who ever thought of making trial of starvation?
Is death pleasant, then?
M.D.Could you make it rain on one spot and not on another?
R.D.I wouldn't think of trying.

I like to see the whole country green, and all the people glad; the women clapping their hands, and giving me their ornaments for thankfulness, and lullilooing for joy.
M.D.I think you deceive both them and yourself.
R.D.Well, then, there is a pair of us (meaning both are rogues).
The above is only a specimen of their way of reasoning, in which, when the language is well understood, they are perceived to be remarkably acute.