I Initiate the Converstaion

(I initiate the conversation by uttering a greeting in the local dialect of the attendant ruminant of the genus Ovis, i.e. a matched pair of bleats, and subsequently continue with describing his appearance.)

"O attendant ruminant, thou relative of goats, but stockier and lacking a beard, whose color may be described a swarthy, are you at the present time the sole proprietor of any sizable quantity of the wavy, hypertrophied undercoat of a hairy mammal such as yourself (the kind composed of keratin molecules in a matrix and covered with minute scales)?"

Recognizing immediately the nature of my request, the aforementioned ruminant replies happily with: "Affirmative and simply positively, sahib! As a matter of fact, I have a trio of fabric containers which can hold no more of such. However, I must tell you that all of them have already been spoken for. The first is for the person to whom I am immediately subservient, the second goes to the mistress of the household, and the last one is reserved for that young gentleman who makes his abode in the narrow passageway between the hedges.

Then, perhaps simply for the sake of closure, and perhaps not quite realizing the futility of repeating the petition, I once again verbalize the already-answered request: "O attendant ruminant, thou relative of goats, but stockier and lacking a beard, whose color may be described a swarthy, are you at the present time the sole proprietor of any sizable quantity of the wavy, hypertrophied undercoat of a hairy mammal such as yourself (the kind composed of keratin molecules in a matrix and covered with minute scales)?"

(translation)