Okoya changed the topic, asking,-- "Satyumishe, you are not much older than I.How comes it that you are uakanyi already ?" Hayoue felt quite flattered.

He was indeed very young for a war magician, and he felt not a little pride on account of it.

Assuming a self-satisfied and important air, he turned to his nephew with the query,-- "When you go out hunting, what is the first thing you do ?" "I take my bow and arrow and leave the house," readily answered the boy.
"This is not what I ask for," growled Hayoue.

"What kind of work do you do ere you rise to the kauash ?" The boy understood at last.
"I place the stone, and speak to Those Above." "If before you go hunting you do not speak to them, are you lucky ?" "No," Okoya mumbled.

He recalled the unlucky turkey-hunt of some time ago, when he had forgotten to say his prayers before starting, of which we have spoken in the first chapter.
"Why have you no luck ?" Hayoue further asked.
"Because the Shiuana are not satisfied," replied the other.