"
Okk b'na ngoran Ygolo,
sh'kai hwaapo Ygologa. The
wiseman speaks, and demonstrates for all that he knows
nothing. Have you ever taken a man's head,
M'ka'sei? I mean not in
Ra'Gadaat, but on the street, because he spoke stupidly and you had to, because your honor, your father's honor, his father's honor
, hoa jah kii'Whacca, demanded it? I suspect no, for if you did you would knowthat the
po'An-li-li, heads-taken-for-valor are stripped of their flesh and boiled white in the strong water, then put on the display on your hearth-shelf to remind guests to mind their manners at tea. To carry the whole head around is
ni-Yoku-sh'bo ygnlo muda-tro-tro ni-Rup-kolo-kola b'hoon tr'suroodeena muda-tw'bambataa b'ki shas'twacca-foo-foo-bini go hw'kk'moo b'yg tasa muda sh'tsi hoso-tw'b'twoosa shi: Unfashionable. For public honor, you take the left dogtooth for wear on a neck-string.
Just look here, at my neck-string. Four-score left dogteeth, not a single right among them!
hi-Mangai? Ha ha! Are you trying to kill me with laughter,
hi-Suroodeen'sei? That is
ku-Manhai, only proper life."