ANSORGE
[Scratching his head, embarrassed.] Well, well!
TRAVELLER
Such specimens of primitive strength are rare nowadays. We're all rubbed smooth by civilisation … but I can still take pleasure in nature untampered with…. These bushy eyebrows! That tangled length of beard!
HORNIG
Let me tell you, sir, that them people haven't the money to pay a barber, and as to a razor for themselves, that's altogether beyond them. What grows, grows. They haven't nothing to throw away on their outsides.
TRAVELLER
My good friend, you surely don't imagine that I would … [Aside to
WELZEL.] Do you think I might offer the hairy one a glass of beer?
WELZEL
No, no; you mustn't do that. He wouldn't take it. He's got some queer ideas in that head o' his.