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"Tse-tse looked right and left to see who listened. 'Kokomo is a strong man in Ty-uonyi, he said; 'it was he who made the treaty with the Dine. And Pitahaya is blind. "'Aye, said the turkey girl; 'when you are a Delight-Maker you can make a fine jest of it. "She had been brought up a foundling in the house of the old chief and was fond of him.
Sometimes I think he is afraid of me. That is why he wished me to join the Koshare, for then he will be my Head, and without his leave I can do nothing. "This was a true saying. Only a few days after that, I found one of their little wooden images, painted and feathered like a Delight-Maker, in my cave. It was an invitation. It smelled of Kokomo and I scratched dirt on it.
The great cat flattened herself along the ground to spring, put back her ears, and showed her teeth with a snarly whine, almost too wicked to be pretended. "I was very good at that," said Moke-icha. "'The Delight-Maker was for you, Tse-tse, said the turkey girl next morning. 'Kokomo cannot prove that you gave it to Kabeyde, but he will never forgive you.
'Without doubt, he said, 'this is Kokomo's; he would be very pleased if you returned it to him. I understood it as an order. "I carried the little Delight-Maker to Kokomo that night in the inner court, when the evening meal was over and the old men smoked while the younger sat on the housetops and moaned together melodiously. Tse-tse looked up from a game of cherry stones.
But after I had carried back the little Delight-Maker to Kokomo, there were no signs of the four-colored arrow, which was the invitation to the Uakanyi, and young men whom Tse-tse had mimicked too often went about pretending to discover Dine wherever a rabbit ran or the leaves rustled. "Tse-tse behaved very badly.
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