the stranger-man (and he was a tewara) thought, ‘this is a very, very wonderful child. she waves her arms and she shouts at me, but i don’t understand a word of what she says. but if i don’t do what she wants, i greatly fear that that haughty chief, man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers, will be angry.’ he got up and twisted a big flat piece of bark off a birch-tree and gave it to taffy. he did this, best beloved, to show that his heart was as white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but taffy didn’t quite understand.