44 ANECDOTE OF A RAIN-MAKER. 



scription, were liiglily calculated to impose on the 

 ignorant minds of the Caffers ; but the time expired, 

 and no rain fell, nor was there the least appearance 

 of its approach. He still continued his exertions, 

 but without effect ; till Pato, seeing how the matter 

 was likely to terminate, began to inquire of the rain- 

 maker, with evident dissatisfaction, why he had so 

 long imposed on them ? The defence was, that Pato 

 had not treated him with the same liberality as his 

 father, who had always paid handsomely when he 

 wanted rain, and for whom rain had been always 

 supplied, as they well knew, on proper remuneration. 

 Mr. Shaw here took an opportunity of pointing to 

 some half-famished cattle, belonging to the rain- 

 maker himself, which were in view on an adjacent 

 hill, and asked him how it occurred that his own 

 oxen were starving for want of pasturage in the 

 absence of rain ; thus clearly representing to the 

 people, that had he possessed the skill to which he 

 pretended, it was not likely he would have neglected 

 his own interests. The rain-maker replied, address- 

 ing the people, — a I have never found a difficulty in 

 making rain, until he came among us (alluding to 

 Mr. Shaw) ; but now no sooner do I collect the 

 clouds, and the rain is about to fall in copious 

 showers on the dry and parched soil, than there 

 immediately begins a sound of ting, ting, ting, 

 (alluding to the Chapel bell), which puts the clouds 

 to flight, and prevents the rain from descending on 



