I do not distinguish their words, but they are angry ones, judging from the tone." "They are accusing one another of theft and encroachment," answered Bulloch.

"That is the general sense of their speech." At that moment the holy Mael clasped his hands and sighed deeply.
"Do you see, my son," he exclaimed, "that madman who with his teeth is biting the nose of the adversary he has overthrown and that other one who is pounding a woman's head with a huge stone ?" "I see them," said Bulloch.

"They are creating law; they are founding property; they are establishing the principles of civilization, the basis of society, and the foundations of the State." "How is that ?" asked old Mael.
"By setting bounds to their fields.

That is the origin of all government.

Your penguins, O Master, are performing the most august of functions.