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There had been no rain for about a fortnight. "Well," I replied, "you are the rainmaker; why don't you give your people rain?" "Give my people rain!" said Katchiba. "I give them rain if they don't give me goats? You don't know my people; if I am fool enough to give them rain before they give me the goats, they would let me starve!
In Judge Thayer's garden it was the house Morgan had fixed on that first morning of his exploration the rainmaker was firing up vigorously, sending up a smoke of such density as he had not employed in his labors before.
Unfortunately it did not fill the water-butts with water, but already the garden was holding up its head, and Billy was claiming that he had scored a win. "Well?" he said, waylaying Cheon in the garden, "Well, me rainmaker? Eh?" and Cheon's superstitious heart bowed down before such evidence.
"Eh?" The man turned from the contemplation of the horses' tails. "I asked you three times if you saw the Agent talking to two of his scouts Jim Crow and Rainmaker before service." Seth flicked his whip over the backs of the horses. "Sure," he said indifferently. "Jim Crow is the head of his Indian police." The girl spoke significantly, and Seth glanced round at her in surprise.
There is one old man up there who was once a great rainmaker, and when you see that he has turned round as the position of the Milky Way is altered, you may expect rain; he never moves except to make it. A waving dark shadow that you will see along the same course is Kurreah, the crocodile. To get to the Warrambool, the Wurrawilberoo, two dark spots in Scorpio, have to be passed.
"Whistle again," he said; and once more I performed like the whistle of a locomotive. "That will do, we shall have it," said the cunning old rainmaker; and proud of having so knowingly obtained "counsel's opinion" on his case, he toddled off to his impatient subjects.
I replied, that he must know all about it, as he was a regular rainmaker. "Of course I do," he answered, "but I want to know what YOU think of it." "Well," I said, "I don't think we shall have any steady rain, but I think we may have a heavy shower in about four days."
We heard of wonderful cures she made; how she always consulted the spirits about any illness; how there were said to be spirits in some of her dogs; how she was now a rainmaker and, in fact, a fully fledged witch. I was curious to see some of these wonders, so used to get the old woman to come up when any one was ill, consult her, and generally make much of her.
And if it happened to turn out a good guess, and a rain did blow up on time, Judge Thayer was just fool enough to give the fellow a letter that would help him put his fraud through in another place. It did not appear, as the days passed, that the rainmaker was driving much of a hole in the hot air that pressed down upon that tortured land.
"In that case I do not feel justified in denying you the letter." So he took his pen, and, some demon guiding his hand, he wrote, greatly to his astonishment: "Who sells his influence should stop it, An honest man will only swap it." The Rainmaker
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