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You think I am taming down into some such animal as a Lowland shopkeeper or Wanshaw weaver—and perhaps it is so, in some measure; but I cannot help it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Mr. Kinsey gave me an ornithorhynchus, and I am taming it.

From Following the Equator, Part 4 by Twain, Mark