Chief Blamo has just married his twentieth wife, and there is great feasting and rejoicing in his town. He has paid for his wife two “wories,” two bullocks, and a goat. His friends chide him for extravagance, and remind him of how he used to buy a wife with a brass kettle and a bolt of cloth or an iron pot. Chief Blamo replies, ‘Long ago Opportunity made love to a beautiful young woman, who refused him. Opportunity became poor and sick. The young woman failed to hear of this; and one day she made up her mind to marry him, and went to find him. As she crossed the creek near the town where Opportunity lived, she saw an old man setting fish-traps. He was crippled, blind in one eye, and shabby. She took him to be a slave. On arriving in the town, she asked to be directed to the house of Opportunity. The people answered, “The crippled old man with one eye, fishing in the creek you just passed, is Opportunity.” With a heavy heart the woman returned home and mourned... “You see, good friends,” concludes Chief Blamo, “times are not what they used to be.”