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The Delight Makers

CHAPTER XVI
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Sa umo had no weapons, neither bow nor arrow nor club.

He did not suppose that there were any Moshome lurking about as tiatui lies in wait for the deer.

Had sa nashtio gone south or toward the west, he would have carried what was right, but over there,"-- he pointed northward,--"who would have believed the people over there to be so mean as these shuatyam of Tehuas now prove to be?
Destruction come upon them!" He spoke very excitedly, his eyes flashed, and he gnashed his teeth.
Shaking his clenched fist at the north, he hissed, "And destruction will come upon them soon! We shall go to Kapo and come back with many scalps.
We will not get one only, and crawl back, as shutzuna does after he has stolen a turkey.

We shall go soon, very soon!" Okoya yielded to the excitement which the latter part of his friend's speech bespoke.

His eyes sparkled also, and his chest heaved at the mention of blood.
"Satyumishe," he exclaimed, "let us go, I and you together.


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