`` we were havin ' a wee pipe after our supper last night , '' peter explained , `` and tsatsa'wi was a-telling of my wife about a difficulty in their village-and she tellin ' it to me , ye see , him havin ' no english and me not speakin ' so verra much of their tongue , no but the names of things and the odd politeness here and there-but as i say , he was telling of a wicked bear , what 's been a-plaguing of them for months past . ''