Let us go and get what may please our father's heart!" Hayoue looked at him; it was an earnest and significant look.
"You are right, brother.

You are wise and you are good.

You also know how to hit with an arrow, but you are not uakanyi." "But I shall be one, if I go with you," boldly uttered the boy.
His uncle shook his head, and smiled.
"Don't you know, sa uishe, that every one cannot go with the warriors, when they go on the war-path?
Every one cannot say, 'I am going,' and then go as he pleases and when he pleases.

Every one cannot think, 'I am strong and wise, and I will follow the enemy.' If the Shiuana do not help him, the strongest is weak, and the wisest is a child before the foe.

See, satyumishe, I am as good a uakanyi as any one, but I do not know whether, when the Hishtanyi Chayan says in the uuityam which men shall go and take from the Tehuas what is proper, I may go with them.
Perhaps I shall have to stay, and some other one will go in my stead." "Must not all go ?" Okoya asked; he was astonished.
"Every one must go whom the maseua chooses." With a sad expression he added, "Our maseua is no more, and ere the Hotshanyi has spoken to the yaya and nashtio, and said to them, 'such and such a one shall be maseua,' it is the Hishtanyi Chayan who decides who shall go and who shall stay at home." His nephew comprehended; he nodded and inquired,-- "Does not the Hishtanyi Chayan fast and do penance now ?" "Our nashtio _yaya_," Hayoue replied with an important and mysterious mien, "has much work at present." "Do you know what he is working ?" naively asked Okoya.
"He is with Those Above." The reply closed the conversation on that subject.