When Makar had replied to his questions, the old Toyon asked:
“What have you done in your life?”
“You know that yourself,” answered Makar. “Surely it is written in your book!”
Makar wanted to test the Toyon and find out whether everything was really inscribed there or no.
“Tell me yourself,” answered the old Toyon.
Makar took courage.
He began enumerating all his works, and although he remembered every blow he had struck with his axe, every pole he had cut, and every furrow he had ploughed, he added to his reckoning thousands of poles and hundreds of loads of wood and hundreds of logs and hundreds of pounds of sown seed.
When all had been told, the old Toyon turned to Father Ivan and said:
“Bring hither the book.”
Makar saw from this that Father Ivan was secretary to the Toyon, and was annoyed that the other had given him no friendly hint of the fact.