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26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, yes--yes, I--yes, honey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he was a--a cowpuncher, I reckon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was Jasper Stuart, then?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was a fellow lived in Brown's Park."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What had you to do with him? Why did Jake Houck tell me to ask you about him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I reckon--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And about where you lived while I was with Aunt Molly at Rawlins?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I'll tell you the whole story, honey. Mebbe I'd ought to 'a' told you long ago. But someways-- He stopped, trying for a fresh start."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll despise yore old daddy. You sure will. Well, you got a right to. I been a mighty bad father to you, June. Tha's a fact."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prob'ly I'd better start at the beginnin', don't you reckon? I never did have any people to brag about. Father and mother died while I was a li'l' grasshopper. I was kinda farmed around, as you might say. Then I come West an' got to punchin' cows. Seems like, I got into a bad crowd. They was wild, an' they rustled more or less. In them days there was a good many sleepers an' mavericks on the range. I expect we used a running-iron right smart when we wasn't sure whose calf it was."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean you stole cattle. Is that it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I--I--Yes, I reckon that's it. Our crowd picked up calves that belonged to the big outfits like the Diamond Slash. We drove 'em up to Brown's Park, an' later acrost the line to Wyoming or Utah."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was Jake Houck one of your crowd?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm gonna know the truth. He's not protecting you any."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Jake was one of us. I met up with him right soon after I come to Colorado."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Purdy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tha's the name I was passin' under. I'd worked back in Missouri for a fellow of that name. They got to callin' me Pete Purdy, so I kinda let it go. My father's name was Tolliver, though. I took it--after the trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It come after I was married. I met yore maw at Rawlins. She was workin' at the railroad restaurant waitin' on table. For a coupla years we lived there, an' I wish to God we'd never left. But Jake persuaded 'Lindy I'd ought to take up land, so we moved back to the Park an' I preëmpted. Everything was all right at first. You was born, an' we was right happy. But Jake kep' a-pesterin' me to go in with him an' do some cattle runnin' on the quiet. There was money in it--pretty good money--an' yore maw was sick an' needed to go to Denver. Jake, he advanced the money, an' o' course I had to work in with him to pay it back. I was sorta driven to it, looks like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You haven't told me yet what the trouble was,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, this fellow Jas Stuart was a stock detective. He come down for the Cattlemen's Association to find out who was doing the rustlin' in Brown's Park. You see, the Park was a kind of a place where we holed up. There was timbered gulches in there where we could drift cattle in an' hide 'em. Then there was the Hole-in-the-Wall. I expect you've heard of that too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did this Stuart find out who was doing the rustlin'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was right smart an' overbearin'. Too much so for his own good. Some of the boys served notice on him he was liable to get dry-gulched if he didn't take the trail back where he come from. But Jas was right obstinate an' he had sand in his craw. I'll say that for him. Well, one day he got word of a drive we was makin'. Him an' his deputies laid in wait for us. There was shooting an' my horse got killed. The others escaped, but they nailed me. In the rookus Stuart had got killed. They laid it on me. Mebbe I did it. I was shooting like the rest. Anyhow, I was convicted an' got twenty years in the pen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty years,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three--four years later there was a jail break. I got into the hills an' made my getaway. Travelin' by night, I reached Rawlins. From there I came down here with a freight outfit, an' I been here ever since."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You poor Daddy. Don't I know how it was? That Jake Houck was to blame. He led you into it an' left you to bear the blame,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It ain't me. It's you I'm thinkin' of, honey. I done ruined yore life, looks like. I shut you off from meeting decent folks like other girls do. You ain't had no show."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you worry about me, Dad. I'll be all right. What we've got to think about is not to let it get out who you are. If it wasn't for that big bully up at the house--"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It don't look like Jake would throw me down thataway, he bewailed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never done him a meanness. I kep' my mouth shut when they got me an' wouldn't tell who was in with me. Tha's one reason they soaked me with so long a sentence. They was after Jake. They kep' at me to turn state's evidence an' get a short term. But o' course I couldn't do that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A surge of indignation boiled up in her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's the very worst man ever I knew--an' if he tries to do you any harm I'll--I'll settle with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, honey. I been learnin' for twelve years that a man can't do wrong for to get out of a hole he's in. If Jake's mean enough to give me up, why, I reckon I'll have to stand the gaff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Git a move on you, Red Haid,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More spuds!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coming up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot along more biscuits!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the way!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beans!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Headed for you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jake, and later"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Houck."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jake Houck. He was down at the camp for dinner to-day--came in with the boss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's no friend of mine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't blame you a bit. Mr. Houck looks like one hard citizen. I'd hate to cross him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's as tough as an old range bull. No matter what you say or do you can't faze him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You still hate him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More 'n ever. Most o' the time. He just laughs. He's bound an' determined to marry me whether or not. He will, too."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't if you don't want him to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't he? June was lying on a warm flat rock. She had been digging up dirt at the edge of it with a bit of broken stick. Now she looked up at him with the scorn of an experience she felt to be infinitely more extensive than his."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A lot you know about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How can he? If you an' Mr. Tolliver don't want him to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He just will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, June, that don't listen reasonable to me. He's got you buffaloed. If you make up yore mind not to have him--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't say I'd made up my mind not to have him. I said I hated him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you wouldn't marry a fellow you hated,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know so much about it, Bob Dillon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I use what brains I've got. Women don't do things like that. There wouldn't be any sense in it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'll prob'ly do it. Then you'll know I haven't got a lick o' sense,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ce'tainly beat my time, he said, puzzled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've heard you say more mean things about him than everybody else put together, an' now you're talkin' about marryin' him. Why? What's yore reason?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you do it, June. Don't you marry him. He didn't look good to me, Houck didn't,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I don't look good to you. Tha's too bad. If you'll tell me what you don't like about me I'll make myself over,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you was near,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll bet you didn't, but you'll know it now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you, Jake Houck! Don't you touch him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got to beat him up, June. It's comin' to him. D'you reckon I'll let the flunkey of a telephone camp interfere in my business? Why, he ain't half man-size."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! Right now!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't have you touch him! I won't! If you do I'll--I'll--"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I b'lieve you would, you spunky li'l wild cat,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Run, Bob,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep back!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to shoot up poor Jake, do you? An' you an' him all set for a honeymoon. Well, go to it, June. You can't miss now."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think you're the devil or one of his fiends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' I think you're an angel--sometimes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sho! Tha's just a notion you got. You like me fine, if you only knew it, girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You never were nearer death, Jake Houck, than right now a minute ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hit the trail, boy--sudden."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you love me well enough to shoot me, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I could!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you can't. You had yore chance, an' you couldn't. What you need is a master, some one you'll have to honor an' obey, some one who'll look after you an' take the devil outa you. Meanin' me--Jake Houck. Understand?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't! I won't! she cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You come here an' bully me because--because of what you know about Father. If you were half a man--if you were white, you wouldn't try to use that against me like you do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm using it for you. Why, you li'l' spitfire, can't you see as Jake Houck's wife you get a chance to live? You'll have clothes an' shoes an' pretties like other folks instead o' them rags you wear now. I aim to be good to you, June."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You _say_ that. Don't I know you? I'd 'most rather be dead than married to you. But you keep pesterin' me. I--I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you don' know what's best for you, I do. To-morrow I got to go to Meeker. I'll be back Thursday. We'll ride over to Bear Cat Friday an' be married. Tha's how we'll fix it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go up to the house an' tell Tolliver it's all settled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not settled, either. You don't run everything."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Back in a minute, Lon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never did see a fellow like him, the cook communed aloud to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A bird calls, an' he's got to quit work to find out what it wants. Kinda nice kid, too, if he is queer."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are cases, June?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don' know what to do, Bob, she broke out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jake will be back to-day--by dinner-time, I reckon. He says I've got to go with him to Bear Cat an' be married to-morrow."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't you got any folks you could go to--some one who would tell Houck where to head in at?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father's all I've got."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't he help you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would, but--I can't ask him. I got to pretend to him I'd just as lief marry Jake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why have you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't tell you why, Bob. But that's how it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you still hate Houck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ump-ha. Except--sometimes. She did not explain that elusive answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it don't matter about how I feel. When he comes back I've got to do like he says."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you. Don't you, he begged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll find a way, li'l' pardner. We sure will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How? she asked, between sobs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There ain't--any way--except to--to marry Jake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You could run away--and work,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who'd give me work? And where could I go that he wouldn't find me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, le's see. You've got friends. Somewhere that you could kinda hide for a while."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a friend. We--we don't make friends,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got one, he said stoutly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe he don't amount to much, but-- He broke off, struck by an idea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, June, why couldn't you run off with me? We'd go clear away, where he wouldn't find us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could I run off with you? A pink flood poured into her face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not my brother. You're no kin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, but-- He frowned at the ground, kicking at a piece of moss with his toe to help him concentrate. Again he found an idea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We could get married."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d' you want to marry me for?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're good pals, ain't we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but you don't--you don't--"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't have to be thataway. If we like each other, an' if it looks like the best thing to do--why--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't leave Dad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have to leave him if you marry Jake Houck."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would we do? Where would we go--afterward?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anywhere. Denver, maybe. Or Cheyenne. Or Salt Lake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How'd we live?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd get work. No trouble about that."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we go it'll have to be right away, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Without tellin' anybody."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could go back to the house an' get my things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While I'm gettin' mine. There's nobody at the camp but Lon, an' he always sleeps after he gets through work. But how'll we get to Bear Cat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll bring the buckboard. Dad's away. I'll leave him a note. Meet you in half an hour on Twelve-Mile Hill,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great, ain't it?"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You stay here, the boy advised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll get things fixed, then come back an' let you know."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's one looks ripe, fellows. Jes' a-honin' for a ride, looks like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Betcha he don't last ten jumps,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let 'er go,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, fellow! Have a good ride?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It didn't last long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most generally it don't. Come in to Dolan's an' have a drink."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't. Bob followed an impulse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, how do you get married?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't, Dud answered promptly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so long as I'm in my right mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean, how do I? He added sheepishly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's in the buckboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! Dud fell to sudden sobriety. This was serious business."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd get a license at the cou't-house. Then go see Blister Haines. He's the J. P."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw what they did to you--the brutes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sho! That wasn't nothin', June. The boys was only funnin'. Well, I got things fixed. We gotta go to the J. P."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I r-reckon I know what _you_ want, y-young man,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-so you want to h-hitch up to double trouble, do you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want to get married,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-same thing, the fat man wheezed, grinning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "C-come right in an' I'll tie you tighter 'n a d-drum."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've only got six dollars,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No matter a-tall. My f-fee is jus' six d-dollars,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll pay you two dollars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "L-lady, if you ain't worth s-six dollars to him you ain't worth a c-cent. But I'll show you how good a sport I am. I'll m-make you a wedding present of the j-job. Got any witnesses?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do we have to have witnesses?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure. I'll dig 'em up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Y-you, Dud Hollister an' Tom Reeves, I'm servin' a subpoena on you lads as w-witnesses at a w-weddin',"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whose wedding?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N-none of yore darned business."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do we get to kiss the bride?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You h-hotfoot it right to my office or I'll throw you in the c-calaboose for c-contempt of court, Tom Reeves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come along, Dud. Might 's well learn how it's done, ol' Sure-Shot."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kiss yore wife, man,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You keep it, ma'am, an' buy yorese'f somethin' for a p-pretty. I'd jes' b-blow it anyhow. Hope you'll be r-real happy. If this yere young s-scalawag don't treat you h-handsome, Tom an' Dud'll be glad to ride over an' beat him up proper 'most any time you give 'em the high sign. Am I right, boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure are,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As j-justice of the peace for Garfield County, S-state of C-colorado, I'm entitled to k-kiss the bride, but mos' generally I give her one o' these heart-to-heart talks instead, onloadin' from my chest some f-free gratis g-good advice, the fat man explained in his hoarse wheeze."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got to r-remember, ma'am, that m-marriage ain't duck soup for n-neither the one nor the other of the h-high contractin' parties thereto. It's a g-game of give an' take, an' at that a h-heap more give than take."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whilst I n-never yet c-committed matrimony in my own p-person, me being ample provided with t-trouble an' satisfied with what griefs I already got, yet I've run cows off an' on, an' so have had workin' for me several of this sex you've now got tangled up with, ma'am, Blister sailed on cheerfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll say the best way to keep 'em contented is to feed 'em good, treat 'em as if they was human, an' in general give 'em a more or less free rein, dependin' on their g-general habits an' cussedness. If that don't suit a p-puncher I most usually h-hand him his hat an' say, 'So long, son, you 'n' me ain't c-consanguineously constructed to ride the same range; no hard feelin's, but if you're w-wishful to jog on to another outfit I'll say adios without no tears.' You can't g-get rid of yore husband that easy, ma'am, so I'll recommend the g-good grub, s-seventy-five s-smiles per diem, an' the aforesaid more or less f-free rein."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you. The justice turned his batteries on the groom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You w-wanta recollect that this r-road you've done chose ain't no easy one to t-travel. Tenderfoot come in the other day an' w-wanted to know what kind of a road it was to S-stinking Creek. I tell him it's a g-good road. Yesterday he come rarin' in to f-find out what I told him that for. 'Fellow,' I says, 'Fellow, any r-road you can g-get over is a good road in this country.' It's t-thataway with marriage, son, an' don't you forget it a h-holy minute. Another thing, this being u-united in wedlock ain't no sinecure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't no which kind of a sin?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blister sure ropes an' hogties a heap of longhorn words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A s-sinecure, boys, is when a f-fellow rides the g-grub line habitual an' don't rope no d-dogies for his stack o' wheats an' c-coffee. He wagged a fat forefinger at Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You gotta quit hellin' around now an' behave yorese'f like a respectable m-married man. You gotta dig in an' work. At that you 'n' the little lady will have yore flareups. When you do, give her the best of it an' you'll never be sorry. Tha's all."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's yore money,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's yours. He gave it to you, Bob answered, swallowing hard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a weddin' present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I ain't no pockets. You keep it for me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd better take the team to the corral, then go get something to eat, June. I'm sure enough hungry. Ain't you?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you the children Blister Haines just married?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We--we've just been married by Mr. Haines,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm Mollie Gillespie--keep the hotel here, she explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You come right in an' I'll fix up a nice room for you, my dearie. You can wash up after yore ride and you'll feel a lot better. I'll have Chung Lung cook you both a bit of supper soon as he comes back to the kitchen. A good steak an' some nice French frys, say. With some of the mince pie left from dinner and a good cup of coffee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're mighty good,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scat! she snapped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get outa here, Mr. Husband, an' don't you show up till five o'clock prompt. Hear me?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d' you think you're doing here, young fellow, me lad? Get outa this den of iniquity an' hustle back to the room where the little lady is waitin' for you. Hear me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Gillespie said maybe you'd want to wash up before supper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon that'd be a good idee,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Gillespie said she reckoned she could fix you up a job to help the cook,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mean--to-night or for good?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right along, she said."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't reckon we'd better stay here, he answered uneasily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a bigger town I can get a better job likely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we haven't money enough to go on the stage, have we?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If there was a bull team going out mebbe I could work my way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W-e-ll. She considered this dubiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we stayed here Mrs. Gillespie would let me wash dishes an' all. She said she'd give me two dollars a week an' my board. Tha's a lot of money, Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want trouble with Jake Houck. It--it would worry you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but-- June did not quite know how to say what was in her mind. She had an instinctive feeling that the way to meet trouble was to face it unafraid and not to run away from it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't reckon we'd better show Jake we're scared of him--now. O' course he'll be mad at first, but he's got no right to be. Jes' 'cause he kep' a-pesterin' me don't give him no claim on me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but you know what he is an' how he acts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go where you want to go. I jes' thought, seein' how good to us Mrs. Gillespie has been, that maybe--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we'll talk it over after supper, Bob said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm for lighting out myself. To Laramie or Cheyenne, say."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like to look the town over?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're right good to me,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, fellow, can I see you a minute?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Big guy in town lookin' for you. He's tankin' up. You heeled?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I--I don't carry a gun,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's mine. Shoots just a mite high, but she's a good old friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dunno. I reckon mebbe I better not. If I talked to him, don't you think--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Talk, hell! He's out for blood, that guy is. He's made his brags right over the bar at Dolan's what all he's gonna do to you. I'm no gunman, understand. But a fellow's got to look out for number one. I'd let him have it soon as I seen him. Right off the reel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surest thing you know. He's a bad actor, that fellow is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I went to the marshal--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What good'd that do? Simp ain't gonna draw cards _till after some one's been gunned_. He don't claim to be no mind-reader, Simp don't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not lookin' for trouble,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellow, it's lookin' for you, cut in Dud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hold that gun right under yore coat, an' when you meet up with Mr. Hook or whoever he is, don't you wait to ask 'What for?' Go to fannin'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did he want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Houck's here--lookin' for me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that you've got under yore coat?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a--a gun. He made me take it. Said Houck was tellin' how he'd--do for me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd better go back to the hotel, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can stay in our room, and I'll send for Jake an' talk with him downstairs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't reckon I'd better do that, Bob protested feebly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He might--hurt you. No tellin'."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you hear whether Dad's with him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Jake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was at Dolan's drinking when that Dud Hollister seen him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have him come right away--before he's had too much. Dad says he used to be mean when he was drinkin'."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got ya!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've got nothing to do with us, Jake Houck. We're married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Married or single, you're mine, girl, an' you're going with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My husband will have a word to say about that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm plumb scared of him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We g-got a right to get married, Mr. Houck, Bob said, teeth chattering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hadn't ought to make us trouble."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speaks up right brave, don't he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's as brave as you are, Jake Houck, even if he ain't a bully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What you got there--in yore hand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allowin' for to kill me, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. The voice was a dry whisper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to talk this over reasonable, Mr. Houck, an' fix it up so's bygones would be bygones. I ain't lookin' for trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sure believe that. Houck turned to June."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wouldn't be safe for me to leave you with this desperate character who goes around with a six-shooter not lookin' for trouble. I'm aimin' to take you with me, like I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You always act like you're God Almighty, she cried passionately."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you hard o' hearing? I'm married to Bob Dillon here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't heard him raise any objections to yore goin', Houck taunted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tolliver said for me to bring you, an' I'll do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him where to get off at,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Houck, June's my wife. She's made her choice. That ends it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "End it, does it? Listen. If you're any kind of a man a-tall you'd better shoot me right now. I'm gonna take her from you, an' you're goin' to tell her to go with me. Understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll not tell me any such a thing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I was you I'd use that gun or I'd crawl into a hole. Ain't you got any spunk a-tall? I'm tellin' you that June's goin' with me instead o' you, an' that you're goin' to tell her to go. Tha's the kind of a man she married."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Mr. Houck, I don't reckon--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gimme that gun, if you ain't goin' to use it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, Bob,"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now tell her you ain't good enough for her, that you've got no sand in yore craw, and she's to go with me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you give her up now, you're a yellow dog, Dillon, his tormentor sneered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stick it out. Tell me to go to red-hot blazes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're killin' me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wish you'd gunned me when you had a chance, don't you? Houck spat at him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too late now. Well, what's it to be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't stand it! I'll do anything you say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you know yore li'l' piece. Speak it right up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You better go with him, June. I--I'm no good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hear him, June."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean that, Bob--that I'm to go with him--that you give me up?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, fellow, where's my gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He--took it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do I lose my six-shooter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll fix it with you when I get the money to buy one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why in Mexico didn't you give that bird a pill outa the gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know. I'm--no good,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said it right that time. I'll be doggoned if I ever saw such a thing as a fellow lettin' another guy walk off with his wife--when he ain't been married hardly two hours yet. Say, what's the matter with you anyhow? Why didn't you take a fall outa him? All he could 'a' done was beat you to death."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He hurt me, Bob confessed miserably."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--was afraid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurt you? Great jumpin' Jupiter. Say, fellows, listen to Miss--Miss Roberta here. He hurt him, so he quit on the job--this guy here did. I never heard the beat o' that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'll borrow one of yore friends' guns an' blow my brains out you'll do me a favor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might, at that, agreed the puncher."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'm not doin' that kind of favor to-day. I'll give you a piece of advice. This ain't no country for you. Hop a train for Boston, Mass., or one o' them places where you can take yore troubles to a fellow with a blue coat. Tha's where you belong."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hit the trail, you lads, he ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll l-look out for this b-business. The exc-c-citement's all over anyhow. Drift."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me about it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothin' to tell. Bob leaned against the table and looked drearily at the floor. The world had come to an end for him. That was all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He showed up an' took June from me--made me tell her to go along with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How did he do that? Did he cover you with a gun?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. I had the gun--till he took it from me. He gave the explanation he had used twice already within the hour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm no good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, where you from?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Austin, Texas, when I was a kid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, damn you, Texas man, I w-want to t-tell you right now that you're talkin' blasphemy when you say you're n-no good. The good Lord made you, didn't He? D-d' you reckon I'm goin' to let you stand up there an' claim He did a pore job? No, sir. Trouble with you is you go an' bury yore talent instead of w-whalin' the stuffin' outa that Jake Houck fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I was dead, Bob groaned, drooping in every line of his figure."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I'd never been born."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blasphemy number two. Didn't He make you in His image? What right you got wishin' He hadn't created you? Why, you pore w-worm, you're only a mite lower than the angels an' yore red haid's covered with glory. Blister's whisper of a voice took unexpectedly a sharp edge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Snap it up! That red haid o' yours. Hear me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B-better. K-keep it up where it belongs. Now, then, w-what are you aimin' for to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get outa this country, like Hollister said. Find a hole somewheres an' pull it in after me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. Not none. You're gonna stay right here--in the country round Bear Cat--where every last man, woman, an' k-kid will know how you ate d-dirt when Houck told you to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't do that, the boy pleaded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I wouldn't have a chance. I'd know what they were sayin' all the time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure you'd know it. Tha's the price you g-gotta pay for g-grovelin'. Don't you see yore only chance is to go out an' make good before the folks who know how you've acted? Sneak off an' keep still about what you did, amongst s-strangers, an' where do you get off? You know all yore life you're only a worm. The best you can be is a bluff. You'd be d-duckin' outa makin' the fight you've gotta make. That don't get you anywhere a-tall. No, sir. Go out an' reverse the verdict of the court. Make good, right amongst the people who're keepin' tabs on yore record. You can do it, if you c-clamp yore j-jaw an' remember that yore red haid is c-covered with g-glory an' you been given dominion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-snap it up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep it up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What'll I do? Where'll I find work?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out on the range. At the K Bar T, or the Keystone, or the Slash Lazy D. It don't m-matter where."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't ride."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hmp! Learn, can't you? Dud Hollister an' Tom Reeves wasn't neither one of them born on a bronc's back. They climbed up there. So can you. You'll take the dust forty times. You'll get yore bones busted an' yore red haid cut open. But if you got the guts to stick, you'll be ridin' 'em slick one o' these here days. An' you'll come out a m-man."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll have one heluva time for a while, Blister prophesied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take 'em by an' large an' these lads chasin' cows' tails are the salt o' the earth. They'll go farther with you an' stick longer than anybody else you ever met up with. Once they know you an' like you. But they'll be right offish with you for a while. Kinda polite an' distant, I expect. S-some overbearin' g-guy will start runnin' on you, knowin' it'll be safe. It'll be up to you to m-make it mighty onsafe for him. Go through to a finish that once an' the boys will begin sizin' you up an' wonderin' about you. Those show-me lads will have to get evidence about 'steen times before they'll believe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll never be able to stick it. I'm such a--so timid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H-hell's bells! What's ailin' you, Texas man? I tell you that you're made in His image. Bite on that thought hard whenever you're up against it an' want to hide yorese'f in a hole. Every time you get too s-scared to play yore hand out, you're playin' it low down on yore C-creator."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about--June?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what about her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's gone with Houck. He'll not take her home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d' you m-mean not take her home? Where'll he take her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know. That's it. I'm responsible for her. I brought her here. He means to--to make her live with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep her by force--that what you're drivin' at?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No-o. Not exactly. He's got a hold over her father somehow. She's worn out fightin' him. When she ran away with me she played her last card. She'll have to give up now. He's so big an' strong, such a bulldog for gettin' his way, that she can't hold him off. June ain't seventeen yet. She's gettin' a mighty rotten deal, looks like. First off, livin' alone the way she an' Tolliver do, then Houck, then me, an' finally Houck again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll notify Tolliver how things are, Blister said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get word to him right away. We'll have to take a lead from him about June."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinkin'--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Onload it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Gillespie was so kind to her. Maybe she could talk to June an' take her at the hotel--if June an' Houck haven't gone yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You said something then, boy. I'll see Mollie right away. She'll sure fix it."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're well shet of him. He's no good, like he said himself. A man's got to have guts. You'd 'a' had to wear the breeches, June. The long whip curved out inexorably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Git over there, Buckskin."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where you goin'? she asked at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You said you'd take me to Dad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Found yore tongue at last, June girl, eh? We're going home--to my place up in Brown's Park."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You got no right to take me there. I'm not yore slave. I want to go to Dad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tha's right, he mocked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm _yore_ slave, June. What's the use of fighting? I'm so set on you that one way or another I'm bound to have you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God, I'm only a li'l' girl, an' I growed up without a mother. I'm right mean an' sulky, but if you'll save me this time from Jake Houck, I'll make out to say my prayers regular an' get religion first chance comes along,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you try to make a fool of Jake Houck, girl, he called to her angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't standin' for any nonsense now. We got to be movin' right along. Come outa there."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear me, June! Git a move on you. If you don't-- He broke off, with another oath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll mark yore back for you sure enough with my whip when I find you."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see you, girl. You ain't foolin' me any. Tell you what I'll do. You come right along back to the buckboard an' I'll let you off the lickin' this time."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God, don't please lemme drown,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sure let my foot slip that time, Dud admitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd been playin' plumb outa luck. Couldn't fill a hand, an' when I did, couldn't get it to stand up. That last queen looked like money from home. I reckon I overplayed it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't made up my mind yet that game was on the level. That tinhorn who claimed he was from Cheyenne ce'tainly had a mighty funny run o' luck. D' you notice how his hands jes' topped ours? Kinda queer, I got to thinkin'. He didn't hold any more'n he had to for to rake the chips in. I'd sorta like a look-see at the deck we was playin' with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You w-won't get it. N-never heard of a hold-up gettin' up a petition for better street lights, did you? No, an' you n-never will. An' you never n-noticed a guy who was aimin' to bushwhack another from the brush go to clearin' off the sage first. He ain't l-lookin' for no open arguments on the m-merits of his shootin'. Not none. Same with that Cheyenne bird an' his stocky pal acrost the table. They're f-figurin' that dead decks tell no tales. The one you played with is sure enough s-scattered every which way all over the floor along with seve-real others. The fat justice of the peace murmured"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H-how much m-mazuma you got?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty-five bucks left."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you s-stay outa that game you'll earn t-twenty-five bucks the quickest you ever did in yore life."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Boot brand's puttin' a thousand head in the upper country this fall, Mollie. Looks to me like bad business, but there's a chance I'm wrong at that. My bet is you can't run cows there without winter feed. There won't many of 'em rough through."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some'll drift down to the river, Mollie said, her preoccupied eyes on the stud table where a slight altercation seemed to be under way. Her method of dealing with quarrels was simple. The first rule was based on one of Blister Haines's paradoxes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best way to settle trouble is not to have it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some will, admitted Larson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More of 'em won't."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the li'l' bride,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brandy an' water, Mike. Quick! She's only fainted. Head not so high, Dud. Tha's right. We'll get a few drops of this between her teeth.... She's comin' to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where am I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're at the hotel--where you'll be looked after right, dearie. Mrs. Gillespie looked up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one get Doc Tuckerman. An' you, Tom, hustle Peggie and Chung Lung outa their beds if they're not up. There's a fire in my room. Tell her to take the blankets from the bed an' warm 'em. Tell Chung to heat several kettles o' water fast as he can. Dud, you come along an' carry her to the stove in the lobby. The rest o' you'll stay right here."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Y-you're awful good to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be back in five minutes, he told Mrs. Gillespie outside the room."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want some stuff I've got at the office. Think I'll stay for a few hours and see how the case develops. Afraid she's in for a bad spell of pneumonia."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's the li'l' lady?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's a mighty sick girl. Pneumonia, likely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell doc not to let her die. If he needs another doctor some of us'll h-hustle over to Glenwood an' g-get one. Say, Mrs. Gillespie, I reckon there's gonna be trouble in town to-night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gimme a drink--something damned hot,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything been seen of a strange girl in town to-night? the newcomer asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She ain't right in her head an' I was takin' her to her dad's place when she slipped away. I'm worried about her, out in this storm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd say you got a license to be. If she's lost out to-night she's liable to be frozen to death before mo'ning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In which case--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In which case--?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's yore name, fellow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellow, my name's Dud Hollister, promptly answered the other."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "D'you like it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much. Neither it nor you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What monkey trick are you tryin' to play on me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wanted it hot,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who did this bird claim he was, Dud?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't say. Took that li'l' bride out in this storm an' left her there. Expect he'll be right popular in Bear Cat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you she hid whilst I was openin' a gate. I been lookin' for her six hours. Thought maybe she'd come to town. My idee is to organize a search party an' go out after her. Quick as we can slap saddles on broncs an' hit the trail."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where'll we hunt for her--up toward Piceance?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where was you takin' her?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We was to have been married to-day, he said surlily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This Dillon boy got her to run off with him. He was no good. I rode hell-for-leather into town to head 'em off."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' you were t-takin' her--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Brown's Park."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forcin' her to go. Was that it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. She went of her own accord."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asked you to take her there, mebbe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None o' yore damn business."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How old is she, Mr. Houck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dunno."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do. Sixteen coming Christmas, said Dud."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dillon told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' how old are you, Mr. Houck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I d'no as that's got anything to do with it, but I'm forty-three,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You meant to live with her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I meant to treat her right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But livin' with her, an' her another man's wife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. That fake marriage with Dillon don't go. She was promised to me. He broke out suddenly in anger:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's eatin' you all? Why don't you go out an' help me find the girl? These whatfors an' whyfors can wait, I reckon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's found."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Found! Houck stared at the fat man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who found her? Where? When?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coupla hours ago. Here in this r-room. Kinda funny how she'd swim the river a night like this an' walk eight-ten miles barefoot in the snow, all to get away from you, an' her goin' with you of her own accord."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wasn't eight miles--more like six."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call it six, then. Fact is, Mr. Houck, she was mighty scared of you--in a panic of terror, I'd say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She had no call to be, the Brown's Park settler replied, his voice heavy with repressed rage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm tellin' you she wasn't right in her head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' you was takin' advantage of that to make this li'l' girl yore--to ruin her life for her,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a bunch of fool meddlers, an' I'm through explainin'. You can go to hell 'n' back for me,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I expect you don't quite understand where you're at, Mr. Houck, Larson said evenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is mighty serious business for you. We aim to give you a chance to tell yore story complete before we take action."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Action?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're up against it for fair, Reeves told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you figure on gettin' away with a thing like that in a white man's country you've sure got another guess comin'. I don't know where you're from or who you are, but I know where you're going."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "D-don't push on the reins, Tom, the justice said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We aim to be reasonable about this, I reckon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure we do. Dud countered with one of Blister's own homely apothegms."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the use of chewin' tobacco if you spit out the juice? Go through, I say. There's a cottonwood back of the kitchen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're fixin' for to hang me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You done guessed it first crack,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet, boys, protested Haines in his whispering falsetto."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon we'd ought to wait an' see how the girl comes out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why had we? demanded a squat puncher from the Keystone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What difference does it make? If ever any one needed stringin' up, it's the guy here. He's worse than Douglas or any other Injun ever was. Is it yore notion we'd oughta sit around with our hands in our pockets, Blister, while reptiles like this Houck make our girls swim the river at night an' plough barefoot through snowstorms? I ain't that easy-dispositioned myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shorty's sure whistlin'. Same here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' here."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll hear what Mr. Houck has to say before we pass judgment,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the use? You've done made up yore minds."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come right in, Tolliver. You'll be in time to take a hand in the show."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No trouble a-tall, answered the big prisoner hardily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The boys are hangin' me. That's all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what are they doin' that for, Jake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you the Tolliver girl's father?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we got bad news for you. She's sick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A mighty sick girl. This man here--this Houck, if that's what he calls himself--took her away from the young fellow she'd married and started up to Brown's Park with her. Somehow she gave him the slip, swam the river, an' came back to town barefoot through the snow. Seems she lost her shoes while she was crossin' the Blanco."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's she at?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here--at the hotel. Mrs. Gillespie an' Doc Tuckerman are lookin' after her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to go to her right away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure. Dud, you know where the room is. Take Mr. Tolliver there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pete. Houck's voice was hoarse, but no longer defiant. In this little man, whom he had always bullied and dominated, whose evil genius he had been, lay his hope of life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pete, you ain't a-going to leave yore old pardner to be hanged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm through with you, Jake,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ain't intendin' to lift a hand for me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a finger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't you tell these men howcome it I rode down to Bear Cat after June?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, I'll tell 'em that. About two-three weeks ago Houck showed up at my place an' stayed overnight. I knew him when we was both younger, but I hadn't seen him for a long time. He took a notion to my June. She didn't want to have a thing to do with him, but he bullied her, same as he did me. June she found out he knew something about me, an' she was afraid to make him mad. I reckon finally he got some kinda promise outa her. He had some business at Meeker, an' he was comin' back to the ranch yestiddy. Then he aimed to bring her here to get married."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was away all day lookin' over my traps an' fixin' them up. When I reached home I found two notes. I got 'em here somewheres. Tolliver fumbled in his coat pockets, but did not find them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One was from June. She said she was runnin' away to marry the Dillon boy. The other was from Jake Houck. He'd got to the house before I did, found her note to me, an' lit out after her. Soon's I could run up a horse I hit the trail too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Threw me down, eh, Pete? Houck said bitterly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, there's two can play at that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go to it, soon as you've a mind to. I don't owe you a thing except misery. You wrecked my life. I suffered for you an' kept my mouth padlocked. I was coyote enough to sit back an' let you torment my li'l' girl because I was afraid for to have the truth come out an' hurt her. I'd ought to have gone after you with a forty-five. I'm through. They can't hang you any too soon to suit me. If they don't--an' if my June don't get well--I'll gun you sure as God made li'l' apples."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I've got nothing to say. What'd be the use? You've made up yore minds to go through with this thing. A fool could see that. Far as Tolliver goes, I reckon I'll go it alone an' not do any beefin' about him. He threw me down hard, but he was considerable strung up about June. Wouldn't do any good for me to tell what I know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit, assented Reeves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Might as well game it out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who said anything about not gaming it out? If you're expectin' me to beg an' crawl you've got hold of the wrong man. I'm a damned tough nut an' don't you forget it. Whenever you're ready, gents."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's all this?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just in time, ma'am. The boys are stagin' an entertainment. They're fixin' to hang me. If you'll accept an invite from the hangee I'll be glad to have you stay an'--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hanging him? What for? What's he done?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's the fellow done dirt to the li'l' Tolliver girl, ma'am. We've had a kinda trial an'--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fiddlesticks! interrupted the woman. She swept the group with an appraising eye."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm surprised to see you in this, Larson. Thought you had more sense. Nobody would expect anything better of these flyaway boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What would you want us to do, Mollie? This fellow treated the girl outrageous. She's liable to die because--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Die! Nonsense! She's not going to die any more than this Houck is. She looked the Brown's Park man over contemptuously with chill, steady eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a bad egg. It wouldn't hurt my feelings any if you rode him outa town on a rail, but I'm not going to have you-all mixed up in a lynching when there's no need for it."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O' course, if you say Miss Tolliver ain't dangerous sick, that makes a difference,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't see it, Tom Reeves differed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know what this fellow aimed to do, an' how he drove her to the river to escape him. If you ask me, I'll say--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But nobody's askin' you, Tom, Mollie cut into his sentence sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're just a fool boy chasin' cows' tails for thirty dollars a month. I'm not going to have any of this nonsense. Bear Cat's a law-abidin' place. We're all proud of it. We don't let bad-men strut around an' shoot up our citizens, an' we don't let half-grown punchers go crazy an' start hangin' folks without reason. Now do we?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't such a kid either, Mrs. Gillespie, but o' course you got to have yore way. We all know that. What d' you want us to do with this bird?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Turn him over to Simp an' let him put the fellow in the jail. There's just as good law right here as there is anywhere. I'd hate to have it go out from here that Bear Cat can't trust the officers it elects to see justice done. Don't you boys feel that way too?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't we even ride him outa town on a rail? You done said we might."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you promise, honest injun, not to kill or maim him, not to do anything that will injure him permanent?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, ma'am. We'll jes' jounce him up some."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All agree to that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you go along with the boys, Jim? She smiled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just to see they're not too--enthusiastic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, boys. The quicker the sooner."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'd only stood up to him, Bob--if you'd shot him or fought him ... lemme go, Jake. You got no right to take me with you. Tell you I'm married.... Yes, sir, I'll love, honor, an' obey. I sure will--in sickness an' health--yes, sir, I do...."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she--is she--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out of her head, Mr. Tolliver."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean--will she--?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't promise you a thing yet. All we can do is look after her and hope for the best. She's young and strong. It's pretty hard to kill anybody born an' bred in these hills. They've got tough constitutions. Better take a chair."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is, in the quaking asps, grinnin' at me! Don't you come nearer, Jake Houck! Don't you! If you do I'll--I'll--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, June. Here's your father. We won't let Houck near you. Better lie down now and rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why must I lie down? she asked belligerently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are you anyhow, mister?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm the doctor. You're not quite well. We're looking after you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tha's right, June. You do like the doctor says, honey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd just as lief, Dad,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a nice time o' day for you to try to turn proper, Mollie Gillespie, she told herself plainly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just because a chit of a girl goes daffy over you, is that any reason to change yore ways? You'd ought to have a lick o' sense or two at yore age."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want to talk with you. Come outside a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jim, she said, turning on him abruptly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her blue eyes searched deep into his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean that? Or is it just talk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know I mean it, Mollie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm tired of being a scandal to Bear Cat. I've always said I'd never get married again since my bad luck with Hank Gillespie. But I don't know. If you really want to get married, Jim."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've always thought it would be better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to quit runnin' this hotel, you understand. You're in town two-three days a week anyhow. If you like you can build a house here an' we'll move into it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get busy _pronto_. I expect you want a quiet wedding, don't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure. We can go over to Blister's office this afternoon. You see him an' make arrangements. Tell him I don't want the boys to know anything about it till afterward."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you get gay with me, Blister--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Honest to goodness, Mrs. Gillespie--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larson, he accepted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I w-wish you m-many happy returns."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hmp!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll put you to ridin', Ed will. The rest's up to you. D-don't you forget you're made in the l-likeness of God. When you feel like crawlin' into a hole s-snap that red haid up an' keep it up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll never forget what you've done for me, Mr. Haines,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sho! Nothin' a-tall. I'm always lookin' for to get a chance to onload advice on some one. Prob'ly I was meant to be a grandma an' got mixed in the shuffle. Well, boy, don't weaken. When in doubt, hop to it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir. I'll try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't w-worry about things beforehand. Nothin's ever as bad as you figure it's goin' to be. A lickin' don't last but a few minutes, an' if you get b-busy enough it's the other fellow that's liable to absorb it. Watch that r-rampageous scalawag Dud Hollister an' do like he does."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' don't forget that every m-mornin' begins a new day. Tha's all, son."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betcha! Drinks for the crowd,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go you, Reeves answered, eyes dancing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But no monkey business. It's to be a straight-away race from the front of the hotel clear to the blacksmith shop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To-day. Inside of ten minutes, you said, Shorty of the Keystone reminded Hollister."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' this Sunday, you recollect."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W-what's up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dud's bettin' he'll get the sky pilot to race him from here to Monty's place, explained Reeves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stick around. He'll want to borrow a coupla dollars from you to buy the drinks."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What deviltry you up to now, Dud?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me? The young puncher looked at him with a bland face of innocence."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Blister, you sure do me wrong."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoa! Stop! Desist!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the parson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Between here an' 'Frisco somewheres. He was travelin' like he was in a hurry when I saw him last. Who pays for the drinks?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do, you darned ol' Piute, shouted Reeves joyously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never will forget how the sky pilot's coat-tails spread. You could 'a' played checkers on 'em. D'you reckon we'd ought to send a wreckin' crew after Melancthon T. Browning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, no. The way he was clamped to that Blue Streak's back you couldn't pry him loose with a crowbar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here he c-comes now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was surely right careless, sir, to start thataway so onexpected, Dud apologized."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you didn't get jounced up much."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one had ought to work you over for bein' so plumb wooden-haided, Dud, the puncher from the Keystone reproved him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here was Mr. Browning ridin' along quiet an' peaceable, figurin' out how he could improve us Rio Blanco savages, an' you come rip-rarin' along an' jar up all his geography by startin' that fool horse of his'n."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tha's right. It was sure enough thoughtless of me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see the evil effects of letting that vile stuff pass your lips. I hope this will be a lesson to you, young man. If I had not kept my presence of mind I might have been thrown and severely injured."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Makin' the preacher race on Sunday, too, chided Reeves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I shouldn't wonder but what it might get out an' spread scandalous. We'll all have to tell folks about it so's they'll get the right of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll say no more about it, if you please. The young man is sorry. I forgive him. His offense was inadvertent even though vexatious. If he will profit by this experience I will gladly suffer the incommodious ride."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm guessin' that when you get back to the ranch you'll find a new rider in the bunkhouse, Dud."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That young fellow Bob Dillon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you're expectin' me to throw up my hat an' shout, Blister, I got to disappoint you, Dud replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like 'em man-size."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm p-puttin' him in yore charge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ain't either,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To m-make a man of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hell's bells! I'm no dry nurse to fellows shy of sand. He can travel a lone trail for all of me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep him kinda encouraged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why pick on me, Blister? I don't want the job. He ain't there, I tell you. Any fellow that would let another guy take his wife away from him an' not hang his hide up to dry--No, sir, I got no manner o' use for him. You can't onload him on me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been thinkin' that when you are alone with him some t-time you'd better devil him into a fight, then let him whale the stuffin' outa you. That'll do him a l-lot of good--give him confidence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got to give it to you, Blister. I'll bet there ain't any more like you at home. Let him lick me, eh? So's to give him confidence. Wallop me good an' plenty, you said, didn't you? By gum, you sure enough take the cake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't hurt you any. You've give an' took plenty of 'em. Think of him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think of me, come to that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L-listen, Dud. That boy's what they call c-c-constitutionally timid. There's folks that way, born so a shadow scares 'em. But he's s-s-sensitive as a g-girl. Don't you make any mistake, son. He's been eatin' his h-heart out ever since he crawled before Houck. I like that boy. There's good s-stuff in him. At least I'm makin' a bet there is. Question is, will it ever get a chance to show? Inside of three months he'll either win out or he'll be headed for hell, an' he won't be travelin' at no drift-herd gait neither."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every man's got to stand on his own hind laigs, ain't he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He needs a friend, worst way, Blister wheezed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doggone yore hide, you're always stickin' me somehow, stormed the cowboy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trouble with me is I'm so soft I'm always gettin' imposed on. I done told you I didn't like this guy a-tall. That don't make no more impression on you than a cold runnin'-iron would on a cow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M-much obliged, Dud. I knew you'd do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't said I'd do it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S-some of the boys are liable to get on the prod with him. He'll have to play his own hand. Tha's reasonable. But kinda back him up when you get a chance. That notion of lettin' him lick you is a humdinger. Glad you thought of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't think of it, an' I ain't thinkin' of it now, Dud retorted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You blamed old fat skeezicks, you lay around figurin' out ways to make me trouble. You're worse than Mrs. Gillespie for gettin' yore own way. Hmp! Devil him into a fight an' then let him hand me a lacin'. I reckon not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll figure that since he can lick you, he can make out to look after himself with the other boys."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He ain't licked me yet, an' that's only half of it. He ain't a-goin' to."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take one, won't you? An' pass the others round."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon I'll not be carin' for a cigar to-night, thank you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps the others--if you'll pass them."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better rope and saddle you a mount, Harshaw told his new man curtly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Buck, you show him the ones he can choose from."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any one o' these except the roan with the white stockings an' the pinto,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "C-clamp yore jaw, you worm! You been given dominion. And after that, a moment later,"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll cover Beaver Creek to-day--you and Buck."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How!"
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mebbe go--mebbe not come back, he had suggested meaningly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mebbe better so. Colorow friend. He speak wise words."
}
]
|
26520 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, fellow! he shouted across the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How'd she go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, I reckon, Bob answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't much use."
}
]
|
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