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"Now, then, stop yer feelosophy," cried Bounce, hitching his shoulders so as to induce his light load to take up a more accommodating position. "Ye didn't use to be a slow feller, March; wot's to do? Ye ain't a-goin' to cave in 'cause we're gettin' nigh the redskins, are ye?"
No one man could manage your gerden, and it canna be managed without some clever chiel, what understands the sceence." "The what?" "The sceence, your honor." "Why, confound you, sir, what science is necessary in gardening?" "I tell your honor that the management of a gerden requires baith skeel and knowledge, and feelosophy." "Why, confound you, sir, again, what kind of doctrine is this?"
"'Cause ye couldn't wink if ye wos asleep, an' I heerd ye breathe diff'rent from afore, so I know'd ye wos awake; an' I knows that a man always winks w'en he comes awake, d'ye see? That's wot I calls the feelosophy of obsarvation." "Very good," replied Marston, "and, that bein' the case, I should like much to try a little of the `feelosophy' of supper."
"Ay, that is the question," observed Bertram gravely. "Wall now, that bein' the kee-westion," said Waller, "whose a-goin' to answer it? There's a chance now, lads; but don't all speak at once." "Right; that's wot it is," observed Bounce, nodding; "that's the feelosophy on it. When a feller's turned upside down, wot's he a-goin' to do nixt?
"That's wot I says, so I do, out-an'-out," observed Bounce, who had come up unperceived, and had overheard the greater part of the above remarks. "Jist wot I thinks myself, Mr Bertram, only I couldn't 'xactly put it in the same way, d'ye see? That's wot I calls out-an'-out feelosophy." "Glad to hear you're such a wise fellow," said McLeod patronisingly.
"Yes," he continued, "a whole skin's better nor a broken one, an' it's well to bring back a whole one, though I'm not a-goin' for to deny that there's some advantage in bringing back other sorts o' skins too, d'ye see? w'ich goes for to prove the true feelosophy of the fact, d'ye see? Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff.
I b'lieve that to be the feelosophy o' the whole affair, and I don't b'lieve that nobody o' common edication I don't mean school edication, but backwoods edication would go for to think otherwise. Wot say you, Waller?" "Sartinly not," replied the individual thus appealed to. Big Waller had a deep reverence for the supposed wisdom of his friend Bounce.
"That's how it is," continued Bounce; "an' that bein' the case, savages always invariably thinks o' number one before they thinks on anythin' else. Now, as men judges theirselves so they judges of others that's a fact, as all feelosophy has preclaimed, an' all experience has pruven. Wot then?
"You'll have to keep quiet, boy, for a few hours, and take a sleep if you can. I'll roast a bit o' meat and rub ye down with fat after you've eat as much of it as ye can. There's nothing like beef for a sick man's inside, an' fat for his outside that's the feelosophy o' the whole matter. You've a'most bin bu'sted wi' that there fall; but you'll be alright to-morrow.
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