In this way he sneaks around from house to house.

He may have overheard something said about you and your ways, he may even have surprised the Koshare while talking among themselves.

But it is quite as likely that the toad has invented the whole story just in order to anger you, for he always finds time to sneak, to lounge, and to hatch lies, the lazy, good-for-nothing eavesdropper! I tell you what it is, that boy is fit for nothing but a Koshare, and a real good one will he become." "But," Okoya rejoined, "if the Delight Makers have spoken about the yaya and me, there must be some cause for it." "Don't you know that these shutzuna always find some occasion for gossip ?" Hayoue cried.

"Don't they run into every house?
Don't their women stick their noses into every bowl, in order to find out what the people cook and eat?
Rest easy, satyumishe, your mother is good, she has nothing in common with the Koshare." "But is not the nashtio one of them?
Your brother, my father?
Is he like the rest of them ?" Hayoue replied, assuming an important mien,-- "It is true that brother is, and I don't like it; but we can't change it.

It was so ordained long ago, for my father himself was Koshare.
Beside, let me tell you that not all that the Koshare do is wrong.