Chapter 48 USI, THE SVN

"I am Usi, of Ushkul, in the country of the Svans; Usi the Bear-slayer was my name, as long as I lived among them. The custom of the country is that as often as a female child is born, any youth of the village who looks forward to his need of marriage may come to the cradle and hang his own bullet around the neck of the infant, and from that time s