All the old- timers shake their heads at it.

They say it has what you Americans call a _hoodoo_ on it." "Berande will succeed," Joan said stoutly.

"I like to laugh at superstition.

You'll pull through and come out the big end of the horn.
The ill luck can't last for ever.

I am afraid, though, the Solomons is not a white man's climate." "It will be, though.