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"We've soured on scenery," he finished, in his drastic idiom. "We're sick of moonlight and cow-dung, and we're heeled for a big time." "Call on me," remarked the Governor, cheerily, "when you're ready for bromides and sulphates." "I ain't box-headed no more," protested Mr.
Rassam had tried, with success, to whitewash the interior of his hut with a kind of soft white yellowish sandstone, that could be obtained in the vicinity of the Amba; we, therefore, also put our servants to work, but first had the mud walls several times besmeared with cow-dung, in order to make the whitewash adhere. We enjoyed very much the neat clean appearance of our hut.
It was at the foot of the cliff, in holes in the rocks, that, lacking wood to build themselves huts, had dwelt long ago the aboriginal inhabitants, who had slings for arms, dried cow-dung for firing, for a god the idol Heil standing in a glade at Dorchester, and for trade the fishing of that false gray coral which the Gauls called plin, and the Greeks isidis plocamos.
Between Grenoble and Briancon, in the valley of the Romanche, many villages are so destitute of wood that they are reduced to the necessity of baking their bread with sun-dried cow-dung, and even this they can afford to do but once a year.
We may read also with what incredible address the mother Copris was able to use and to profit by the ready-made pellets of cow-dung which it occurred to Fabre to offer her. But their scope is limited, and encroaches very little, in the eyes of the great observer, on the domain of intelligence.
That was a very great shame, Sahib. She was the child of us all. We exacted a payment, but she was slain slain like a calf for no fault. "As to cultivation, there are no words for its excellence or for the industry of the cultivators. They esteem manure most highly. They have no need to burn cow-dung for fuel. There is abundance of charcoal.
A light fire of dried cow-dung, or corn-stalks, or straw, and grass with twigs, is made in a hole in the ground for the final baking. Ornaments are made on these pots of black lead, or before being hardened by the sun they are ornamented for a couple or three inches near the rim, all the tracery being in imitation of plaited basket work.
If you are much out in these villages this smoke constantly hangs about, clinging to your clothes and flavouring your food, but the natives seem to like it amazingly. In the cold mornings of December or January it hangs about like the peat smoke in a Highland village. Round every house are great stacks and piles of cow-dung cakes.
The scarab was at once named "Cheops," and treated with all the respect due to his ancient family traditions. His wants were easily supplied: a deep tin box, with earth and moss slightly damped, gave him space for exercise; and then for food alas! that his tastes should be so degraded he had to be supplied with cow-dung!
You can't ask your mother, you say, because she never comes here? True enough fine ladies let their brats live in cow-dung, but they must have Indian carpets under their own feet. Well, ask the abate, then he has lace ruffles to his coat and a naked woman painted on his snuff box What? He only holds his hands up when you ask?
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