If it were true that “man wants for little here below” he could get along nicely with one or two assorted snorts like the ox and the “oss” and other members of the sterner sects. Why, a cow, by unlatching her grass-chute and unleashing her a-cow's-ticks, can issue a complaint (when she is in the moo-d) calculated to make a whine merchant sound like a gay caballero. A sheep can express a world of “whoa” in a one bar “bah.” It seems such a waste of wind for man to have invented oodles of tortured chin-chaff almost solely for saying, “pass the mustard,” “mine's a beer,” or “that will be ninepence.”