"See how they come down to wake up the waters under the earth! Soon will the rivers be flowing everywhere, merry and loud, like thousands and thousands of happy children.

Oh, how glad they will make you, Little Ones! You have never seen any, and do not know how lovely is the water!" "That will be the glad of the ground that the princess is grown good," said Odu.

"See the glad of the sky!" "Are the rivers the glad of the princess ?" asked Luva.

"They are not her juice, for they are not red!" "They are the juice inside the juice," answered Mara.
Odu put one finger to his eye, looked at it, and shook his head.
"Princess will not bite now!" said Luva.
"No; she will never do that again," replied Mara.

"-- But now we must take her nearer home." "Is that a nest ?" asked Sozo.
"Yes; a very big nest.