Possible Clues:

• Animal chewing cud
• Choose this one, by the sound of it
• If the insect has been drinking spirits, that gives it something to chew on
• Get some spirits into the insect for chewing
• Animal that�s strange at home with hill-dweller
• Contemplative spirit imbuing soldier, perhaps
• Worker needs drink at home first to become meditative
• The thinking animal?
• What accounts for insect being drunk maybe — or cow?
• Musing male in area covered by tiny bit of litter?