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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buchanan's blunder,"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormons,"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormondom"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism, the cornerstone of the structure, the secret of its influence over its members, and of its attractiveness to its proselytes, viz., the peculiarity of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Until death do you part, but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For time and for all eternity. [3] This constitutes celestial marriage. The thought that plural marriage has ever been the head and front of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The House of the Lord,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon institution of plural marriage. In 1862, a law was enacted with the purpose of suppressing plural marriage, and, as had been predicted in the national Senate prior to its passage, it lay for many years a dead letter. Federal judges and United States attorneys in Utah, who were not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormons nor lovers of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism,"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MORMONISM"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism it is assumed that no discussion of Christianity in general nor of the philosophy of Christianity is required. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon creed, so far as there is a creed professed by the Latter-day Saints, is pre-eminently Christian in theory, precept, and practise. In what respect, then, may be properly asked, does"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism differ from the faith and practise of other professedly Christian systems--in short, what is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon, with its derivatives, is not the official designation of the Church with which it is usually associated. The name was originally applied in a spirit of derision, as a nick-name in fact, by the opponents of the Church; and was doubtless suggested by the title of a prominent publication given to the world through Joseph Smith in an early period of the Church's history. This, of course, is the Book of Mormon. Nevertheless, the people have accepted the name thus thrust upon them, and answer readily to its call. The proper title of the organization is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The philosophy of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon doctrine see"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Articles of Faith: a Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon doctrine appears over the signature of Joseph Smith--the man whom the Latter-day Saints accept as the instrument in divine hands of re-establishing the Church of Christ on earth, in this the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. Let it not be supposed, however, that these Articles of Faith are, or profess to be, a complete code of the doctrines of the Church, for, as declared in one of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Articles, belief in continuous revelation from Heaven is a characteristic feature of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism."
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism is for the wayfaring man, not less than for the scholar, and it possesses a simplicity adapting it to the one as to the other. A few of the characteristically"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormon"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism is bolder yet. It asserts that in accordance with the inviolable law of organic nature--that like shall beget like, and that multiplication of numbers and perpetuation of species shall be in compliance with the condition"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism claims that all nature, both on earth and in heaven, operates on a plan of advancement; that the very Eternal Father is a progressive Being; that his perfection, while so complete as to be incomprehensible by man, possesses this essential quality of true perfection--the capacity of eternal increase. That therefore, in the far future, beyond the horizon of eternities perchance, man may attain the status of a God. Yet this does not mean that he shall be then the equal of the Deity he now worships nor that he shall ever overtake those intelligences that are already beyond him in advancement; for to assert such would be to argue that there is no progression beyond a certain stage of attainment, and that advancement is a characteristic of low organization and inferior purpose alone. We believe that there was more than the sounding of brass or the tinkling of wordy cymbals in the fervent admonition of the Christ to his followers--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism accepts the doctrine of the Fall, and the account of the transgression in Eden, as set forth in Genesis; but it affirms that none but Adam is or shall be answerable for Adam's disobedience; that mankind in general are absolutely absolved from responsibility for that"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism, Christ's instructions to the people to pray"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(II Thess. 2:3.)"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Apostasy: Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meridian of Time."
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism emphasizes the doctrine that that which is Caesar's be given unto Caesar, while that which is God's be rendered unto him. Therefore, it teaches that all things pertaining unto earth, and unto man's earthly affairs, may with propriety be regulated by earthly authority, but that in the performance of any ordinance, rite, or ceremony, claimed to be of effect beyond, the grave, a power greater than that of man is requisite or the performance is void. Therefore, membership in the Church, which, if of any value and significance at all, is of more than temporal meaning, must be governed by laws which are prescribed by the powers of heaven."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormon"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The House of the Lord, a Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern,"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless him with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In my Father's house are many mansions, (John 14:2), declared the Savior to his apostles; and Paul adds,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead,"
}
]
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5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism is frequently spoken of as a new religion, and the Church as a new church, a mere addition of one to the many sects that have so long striven for recognition and ascendency among men. It is new only as the springtime following the darkness and the cold of the year's night is new. The Church is a new one only as the ripening fruit is a new development in the course of the tree's growth. In a general and true sense,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
5630 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Repent Repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mormonism"
}
]
|
637864 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at that man,"
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A cuckoo clock! Doris cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A real old cuckoo clock like my mother had. She turned the clock over and over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just like my mother had, when Pete was still alive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's made in Germany, Larry said. After a moment he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carl got it for me wholesale. He knows some guy in the clock business. Otherwise I wouldn't have--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford it. He scowled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with you? You've got your clock, haven't you? Isn't that what you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, Larry said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never satisfied. They're all that way. Never get enough."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm waiting."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear me? she whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you're the most wonderful cuckoo in the world. She paused, embarrassed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you'll like it here."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you put your thumb over the door?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're supposed to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure? I wonder if it isn't that you don't want him to come out while you're standing so close."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe you're afraid of him."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right. Larry's at the office."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine. Bob gazed at her slim legs below the hem of the robe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How nice you look today."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be careful! Maybe I shouldn't let you in after all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you want, I'll--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, for God's sake. She caught hold of his sleeve."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just get out of the doorway so I can close it. Mrs. Peters across the street, you know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I want to show you something, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You haven't seen it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An antique? Or what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll love it, Bobby. She stopped, wide-eyed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you will. You must; you must love it. It means so much to me--_he_ means so much."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He? Bob frowned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're jealous! Come on. A moment later they stood before the clock, looking up at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll come out in a few minutes. Wait until you see him. I know you two will get along just fine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does Larry think of him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They don't like each other. Sometimes when Larry's here he won't come out. Larry gets mad if he doesn't come out on time. He says--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Says what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He always says he's been robbed, even if he did get it wholesale. She brightened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I know he won't come out because he doesn't like Larry. When I'm here alone he comes right out for me, every fifteen minutes, even though he really only has to come out on the hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He comes out for me because he wants to. We talk; I tell him things. Of course, I'd like to have him upstairs in my room, but it wouldn't be right."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chambers. I'll be damned. His eyes narrowed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I-- Bob began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is, we--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut that din off, he said. He raised his fist toward the clock. The cuckoo snapped into silence and retreated. The door closed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came over to look at the clock, Bob said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doris told me that it's a rare antique and that--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nuts. I bought it myself. Larry walked up to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get out of here. He turned to Doris."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You too. And take that damn clock with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. Leave the clock here. It's mine; I bought it and paid for it."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, he said late one night to the closed little door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know you can hear me. I ought to give you back to the Germans--back to the Black Forest. He paced back and forth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what they're doing now, the two of them. That young punk with his books and his antiques. A man shouldn't be interested in antiques; that's for women."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't that right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't that right? he demanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you have anything to say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. I'll wait until eleven. Then I want to hear what you have to say. You've been pretty quiet the last few weeks since she left."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe you don't like it here since she's gone. He scowled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I paid for you, and you're coming out whether you like it or not. You hear me?"
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, if that's the way you feel, Larry murmured, his lips twisting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it isn't fair. It's your job to come out. We all have to do things we don't like."
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, he said, waving the hammer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know what I have here? You know what I'm going to do with it? I'm going to start on you--first. He smiled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds of a feather, that's what you are--the three of you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you coming out? Or do I have to come in and get you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear you in there. You've got a lot of talking to do, enough for the last three weeks. As I figure it, you owe me--"
}
]
|
28644 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctor, Bob said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it very easy to break your neck, falling from so low a chair? It wasn't very far to fall. I wonder if it might not have been an accident. Is there any chance it might have been--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suicide? the doctor rubbed his jaw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never heard of anyone committing suicide that way. It was an accident; I'm positive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mean suicide, Bob murmured under his breath, looking up at the clock on the wall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I meant _something else_."
}
]
|
191601 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know what that fellow there asked me to do, yesterday?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robson, run down to the village, at once, and tell the policeman to come up here; and ask if any gypsies, or tramps, have been seen in the neighborhood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've heard say there are some gypsies camped on Netherwood Common, four miles away,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put the gray mare in the dog cart, Sam. We will drive over at once. They will hardly expect us so soon. We will pick up another policeman, at Netherwood. They may show fight, if we are not in strength."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, policeman, look about, and see if you can find any traces of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why do you come to us? one of the men said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When a fowl is stolen you always suspect us, as if there were no other thieves in the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are plenty of other thieves, my friend; and we shall not interfere with you, if we find nothing suspicious."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There have been some fowls plucked, here, one of the policemen said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is a little feather-- and he showed one, of only half an inch in length"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may look in the pot, he said, turning to Captain Ripon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's rabbits here--two or three of them, I should say--and a fowl, perhaps two, but they are cut up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot swear to that, Captain Ripon said, examining the portions of fowl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I can pretty well swear to this, he said, as he stooped and picked up a feather which lay, half concealed, between the edge of one of the tents and the grass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a breast feather of a Spangled Dorking. These are not birds which would be sold for eating in Hunston market, and it will be for these men to show where they got it from."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's not proof, he said, insolently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't convict five men, because the feather of a fowl which you cannot swear to is found in their camp."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And do you, he said, to the other policeman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that feather the only proof you have, Ripon? Mr. Bailey asked, when he had given his evidence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think that it will be enough to convict, if unsupported; besides, you cannot bring it home to any one of them. But it is sufficient for me to have them locked up for twenty-four hours and, in the meantime, you may find the other fowls."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, which of these men has got such a boot on? Whichever has, he is the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's of no use, one of them said, when the policeman approached to examine their boots."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm the man, I'll admit it. I can't get over the boot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is the boot, sir, the constable exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can swear that it will fit the impression, exactly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, the magistrate said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Constable, take that man to the lockup; and bring him before the bench, tomorrow, for final committal for trial. There is no evidence against the other four. They can go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Constable, Mr. Bailey said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They had burnt all the feathers, as they thought; but I found a breast feather of a Spangled Dorking, and that was enough for me to give them in custody. Then, when it came to the question of boots, the thief found it no good to deny it, any longer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have come, sir, to beg you not to appear against my husband."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, my good woman, I see no reason why I should not do so. If he had only stolen a couple of common fowls, for a sick wife or child, I might have been inclined to overlook it--for I am not fond of sending men to prison--but to steal a dozen valuable fowls, for the pot, is a little too much. Besides, the matter has gone too far, now, for me to retract, even if I wished to--which I certainly do not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a good husband, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He may be, Captain Ripon said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have asked you fairly, sir; and it will be better for you if you don't prosecute Reuben."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, nonsense, my good woman! Don't let me have any threats, or it will be worse for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you, the woman exclaimed, fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, go out, Captain Ripon said, opening the front door of the hall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As if I cared for your ridiculous threats! Your husband will get what he deserves--five years, if I am not mistaken."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will repent this,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, who was it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An insolent gypsy woman, wife of the man who stole the fowls. She had the impudence to threaten me, if I appeared against him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Robert! the young wife exclaimed, apprehensively,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, my love, it is not worth giving a second thought about; and I shall not tell you about my work on the bench, if you are going to take matters to heart like this."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, of course, that would have been dreadful, Robert. Still, you know, it is a pity."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day or other Tom will laugh, when I tell him what a fuss you made over it."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he ought to begin to talk, Robert, his wife urged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is sixteen months old, now, and can run about quite well. He really ought to begin to talk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will talk, before long, her husband said, carelessly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many children do not talk till they are eighteen months old, some not till they are two years. Besides, you say he does begin, already."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Robert, but not quite plainly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, indeed, not plainly at all, her husband laughed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't trouble, my dear, he will talk soon enough; and if he only talks as loud as he roars, sometimes, you will regret the hurry you have been in about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Robert, how can you talk so? I am sure he does not cry more than other children. Nurse says he is the best child she ever knew."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What fidgets you young mothers are, to be sure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what heartless things you young fathers are, to be sure! his wife retorted, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men don't deserve to have children. They do not appreciate them, one bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We appreciate them, in our way, little woman; but it is not a fussy way. We are content with them as they are, and are not in any hurry for them to run, or to walk, or to cut their first teeth. Tom is a fine little chap, and I am very fond of him, in his way--principally, perhaps, because he is your Tom--but I cannot see that he is a prodigy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is a prodigy, Mrs. Ripon said, with a little toss of her head,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the way, I must order some wire netting. I forgot to write for it, yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pa, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, she called,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is that little pickle? she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hiding, I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, here comes nurse. Nurse, have you seen Master Tom? He has just run away,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, ma'am, I have seen nothing of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must be about the garden then, somewhere. Look about, nurse. Where can the child have hidden itself?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Robert, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't find Tom!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not find Tom? her husband said, rising in surprise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, how long have you missed him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was out in the garden with me. I was picking flowers for the dinner table and, when I looked round, he was gone. Nurse and I have been looking everywhere, and calling, but we cannot find him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, he is all right, Captain Ripon said, cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not alarm yourself, little woman. He must have wandered into the shrubbery. We shall hear him howling, directly. But I will come and look for him."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He must have got through the gate, somehow, into the park, Captain Ripon said, hurrying in that direction."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He certainly is not in the garden, or in any of the hothouses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been down to the gate, sir, and can see nothing of Master Tom; but in the middle of the drive, just by the clump of laurels by the gate, this boot was lying--just as if it had been put there on purpose, to be seen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense! Captain Ripon said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can that have to do with it?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Heaven! he exclaimed,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has probably some hiding place, close by the park, he said to himself,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not fret, darling. The woman has done it out of spite, no doubt; but she will not risk putting her neck in a noose, by harming the child. It is a terrible grief, but it will only be for a time. We are sure to find him before long."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How strange are God's ways, Robert. How wicked and wrong in us to grumble! I was foolish enough to fret over that mark on the darling's neck, and now the thought of it is my greatest comfort. If it should be God's will that months or years should pass over, before we find him, there is a sign by which we shall always know him. No other child can be palmed off upon us, as our own. When we find Tom we shall know him, however changed he may be!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear, her husband said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is very good, and this trial may be sent us for the best. As you say, we can take comfort, now, from what we were disposed to think, at the time, a little cross. After that, dear, we may surely trust in God. That mark was placed there that we might know our boy again and, were it not decreed that we should again see him, that mark would have been useless."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sam, I hear a child crying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nonsense! the man replied, drawing the bedclothes higher over his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the wind; it's been whistling all day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you, Sam, it's a child; don't you hear it, man? It's a child, outside the gate. On such a night as this, too. Get up, man, and see; if you won't, I will go myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lie still, woman. It's all thy fancy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are a fool, Sam Dickson, his wife said, sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think I have lived to the age of forty-five, and don't know a child's cry, when I hear it? Now are you going to get up, or am I?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, for once, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is a child, and a pretty heavy one, too. It has been deserted by someone; and a heartless creature she must have been, for in another half hour it would have been frozen to death, if you had not heard it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's half frozen, Sam. The best thing will be to put it into our bed, that has just got warm. I will warm it up a little milk. It's no use taking it into the ward, tonight."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't cry, dear, the woman said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will get you some nice breakfast, directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, dear. We shall find her soon enough, no doubt; don't you fret."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will she beat Billy, when she comes back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my dear, she sha'n't beat you. Does she often beat you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then she's a bad lot,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any distinguishing mark on its clothes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None at all, sir. It is poorly dressed, and seems to have been very bad treated. Its skin is dirty, and its little back is black and blue with bruises; but it has a blood mark on the neck, which will enable its mother to swear to it, if it's fifty years hence--but I don't suppose we shall ever hear of her, again."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Dickson, he said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moder asleep, he said, in a whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she wake, she beat Billy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's his mother, sir, sure enough, she said to the master,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I daresay he takes after his father, the master--who was a practical man--said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear that there is no name on her things, no paper or other article which would identify her in her pockets; but there is two pounds, twelve shillings in her purse, so she was not absolutely in want. It will pay the parish for her funeral."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "William Gale,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is really a fine little fellow, Mrs. Dickson. He really does you credit. A fine, sturdy, independent little chap."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He looks like a gentleman's child,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe he is a gentleman's child, sir. Look at his white skin; see how upright he is, with his head far back, as if he was somebody. He is different, altogether, from the run of them. I always said he came of good blood, and I shall say so to my dying day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may be so, Mrs. Dickson; but the woman who left him here, if I remember right, did not look as if she had any good blood in her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not likely, sir. She never came by him honestly, I am sure. I couldn't have believed she was his mother, not if she had sworn to it with her dying breath."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never tell a lie, Billy; not if it's to save yourself from being thrashed ever so much. Always speak out manful, and straight, no matter what comes of it. Don't never use no bad words, work hard at your books, and try to improve yourself. Keep it always before you that you mean to be a good man, and a gentleman, some day and, mark my words, you will do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're spoiling that child, her husband would say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I am not spoiling him, Sam. I'm doing him good. It will help keep him straight, if he thinks that he is of gentle blood, and must not shame it. Why, the matron said only yesterday she could not make him out, he was so different from other boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More's the pity, grumbled the porter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It mayn't do him harm now--I don't say as it does; but when he leaves the house he'll be above his work, and will be discontented, and never keep a place."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he won't,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be very dull for those poor boys. I will pack up some of the boys' books, and send them. Now they have gone to college, they will never want them again; and they would make quite a library for the workhouse boys. There must be twenty or thirty of them, at least."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sailors who hail from the eastern fishing ports are always regarded as amongst the best of our seamen. Still, it is a rough life, and a dangerous one. The hardest life, on shore, is easy in comparison. There is time to change your minds, before you sign; when you have done so, it will be too late. Are you all determined?"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will meet a great many bad boys, Bill; don't you let them lead you into their ways."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be afraid of that, he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't do anything I should be ashamed of, afterwards. You have taught me better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose the guardians gave you a Bible, today; they always do, when boys goes out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I remember, Will said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made up my mind, then, that I'd bear it in mind, and act upon it when I could. I think the thought of God, and the thought that I may meet my parents--and they must not be ashamed of me--will help me to be honest, and firm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope, Bill, you will come, sometimes, and see me, when you are ashore."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be sure to do that, when I can, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But of course, I shall have no money, at first; and it may be a long time before I can pay my railway fare here; but you may be sure I will come. Whoever may be my real mother, you are the only mother I ever knew, and no mother could have been kinder. When I grow to be a man, and go to sea in big ships, I will bring you all sorts of pretty things from abroad and, if ever you should want it, you may be sure that my wages will be quite as much yours as if I had been, really, your son!"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine talk, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Sam Dickson, his wife said, wrathfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boy means what he says, and I believe him. If anything was to happen to you, and that boy was growed up, I believe he would come forward to lend me a helping hand, just as he says, as if he were my son. The gals is good gals, but gals in service have plenty to do with their wages--what with dress, and one thing or another. We must never look for much help from them but, if Bill is doing well, and I ever come to want, I believe as his heart would be good to help, a bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, the porter said, dryly,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyhow, you'll write to me regular, won't you, Bill?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I will, the boy said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every time I gets back to port, I'll write; and you'll write sometimes, won't you? And tell me how you are, and how every one is, schoolmaster and all. They have all been very kind to me, and I have nothing to say against any of them."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James Eastrey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here we are, Sam Dickson said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, stop quietly outside. I will call three of you up, when I have spoken to Mr. Eastrey."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, he said, pointing to William Gale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "William Gale, sir."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Gale, will stop on the smack. I will take you on board, in half an hour, when I have finished my letter."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now come along, Gale, Mr. Eastrey said, at last,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harvey, Mr. Eastrey said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have brought you a new lad. He will sail with you, tomorrow. I have a very good account of him, and I think you will find him quick, and ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ready to begin work at once, young 'un? What is your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "William Gale, and I am quite ready."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, Bill, chuck off your jacket, then, and pass those bags along from the wharf."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bill, you are to come home with me, for the night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, wife, he said as he entered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got a new apprentice, and I expect he's pretty hungry; I am, I can tell you, and I hope tea's ready. His name's Bill, and he's going to stop here, tonight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you like fish?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, ma'am--I never tasted them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bless me! the woman cried, in astonishment;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been brought up in a workhouse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope I shall turn out none the worse for it, the boy said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And none can't do more, the good woman said, briskly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like your looks, Bill, and you've a nice way of talking. Well, we shall see."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will have plenty of them, before you eat your next tea on shore. We pretty nigh live on them, when we are on the fishing grounds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The same kind of fish as this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, mackerel are caught in small boats, with a different sort of gear, altogether. We get them, sometimes, in the trawl--not shoals of 'em, but single fish, which we call horse mackerel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And she gave you good advice as to how you should go on, I'll be bound."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ma'am, Will said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope so, Bill; but you'll find it hard work to keep yourself as you should do, among them boys. They are an awful lot, them smack boys."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not worse nor other boys,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you don't swear, Will. They look too sharp after you, in the House; but if you take my advice, boy, don't you ever get into the way of bad language. If you once begin, it will grow on you. There ain't no use in it, and it's awful to hear it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will try not to do so, Will said firmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother--I always call her mother--told me how bad it was, and I said I'd try."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, Will, you stick to that, and make up your mind to keep from liquor, and you'll do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the use of talking that way? the skipper said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boy's sure to do it. They all do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not all, John. There's some teetotalers in the fleet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't say I'll never touch it, Will said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for giving it up altogether, I see no call for it. There are men who can't touch liquor, but they must go on till they get drunk. That sort ought to swear off, and never touch it at all. It's worse than poison, to some. But for a man who is content with his pint of beer with his dinner, and a glass of grog of an evening, I see no harm in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Except that the money might be better spent, John."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It might be, or it might not. In my case, the saving would be of no account. The beer costs three pence, and the rum as much more. That's six pence a day. I'm only at home ten days, once every two months; so it come to thirty shillings a year, and I enjoy my dinner, and my evening pipe, all the better for them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The thing is this, Will: you don't know, when you begin, whether you are going to be one of the men who--like my John--is content with his pint of beer, and his glass of grog; or whether you will be one of them as can't touch liquor without wanting to make beasts of themselves. Therefore the safest plan is, don't touch it at all--leastways, till you've served your time. The others may laugh at you, at first; but they won't like you any the worse for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, ma'am. I will make up my mind to that--not to touch liquor till I am out of my apprenticeship. After that, I can see for myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, lad. When you come back from your first trip, you can join the lodge, if you like. I and my girls are members."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, ma'am, Will said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I daresay you are sleepy. There's my boy's bed for you. He is fourth hand in one of the smacks at sea."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Bill, come below, the skipper said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will show you your bunk."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, as the other lad is more handy on deck than you are, you can take charge here. All you have to do is to see that the kettle is kept boiling. You can come on deck and lend a hand, if wanted; but you must come down sometimes, and see the fire is all right."
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are there only two hands under the captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are two others, the boy said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will come on board after we get out of the river, and you'll see they will be just as drunk as they can stand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, drunk at this time in the morning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, they got drunk last night and, as they won't have fairly slept it off, they will be beginning again this morning. The old man will look them up, and get them off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who is the old man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish they were all on board. There's a fine breeze, and I hate wasting four or five hours off the bar, waiting for the hands to come off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder the old man stands it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't help it, the other answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scarce a smack goes out of Yarmouth without half the hands being drunk, when she starts. They don't get much chance afterwards, you see; and they sleep it off by night, so it don't make any odds. Our skipper is always sober, and that's more than many of them are. I have gone out when me and the other boy were the only two sober on board."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But isn't it very dangerous?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dangerous? No, the boy said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, two, three, four, the boy said,"
}
]
|
21979 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, the captain said,"
}
]
|
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