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An' think what enjoyment he hes in the chase until ceevilisation takes all the speerit out o' him. H'm! It never took the speerit out o' me, whatever." "Maybe there wasn't enough o' ceevilisation in the place where you was brought up," suggested the interpreter. "Ha! ye hev me there, Tonal'," returned the trader, with a short laugh. "Weel, I must admit that ye're not far wrong.
"Why, Fergus, you should have been born a savage," said Dan. "Ay, it iss savitch I am that I wass not born a savitch," returned Fergus with a grim smile. "What in all the world iss the use of ceevilisation if it will not make people happy?
To keep the situation moving he drawled teasingly, "Och, you women, you women! Born with the tongues of cats you are, every one of ye, and with the advawnce of ceevilisation ye're developing the claws! There was a fine piece in the Scotsman this morning about one of your Suffragettes standing on the roof of a town hall and behaving as a wild cat would think shame to, skirling at Mr.
Perhaps he enjoyed his outings all the more that he was a stern disciplinarian so deeply impressed with a sense of duty that he would neither allow himself nor his men to indulge in sport of any kind until business had been thoroughly disposed of. "It hes often seemed to me," he said, steering towards the bend of the river above referred to, "that ceevilisation was a sort o' mistake.
He wants breakfast and dinner usually, as well as supper, and a few comforts besides, such as tea and sugar at least the women do besides pipes an' baccy to say nothing of books." "Oo ay, I will not be denyin' that. But we've no need for wan half the luxuries o' ceevilisation.
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