So he kept his own counsel for the moment, and disguised his misfortune.

"I have been to see the King of the Birds this morning," he said, in a grumbling voice; "and I do not like him.

That God is too insolent.

For my part I hate these strangers, one and all.
They have no respect for Tu-Kila-Kila like the men of Boupari.

They are as bad as atheists.