Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "G-glory be, son. I 'most had heart f-failure whilst you was hoofin' it over the mesa. Oh, boy! I'm g-glad to see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got to go--back again," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's that? demanded Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Back where?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To--to the river. I came to get help--for Houck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Houck?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's down there in the willows wounded." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You been down there l-lookin' after him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. They hit him in the leg--twice. An' once in the side. He's outa his head. I got him water from the river." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was that when I heard shootin' down there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'll be d-dawg-goned!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Houck was down in the open last I seen him, Hawks said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he crawl to the willows?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I kinda helped him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hmp! An' now you think we'd ought to let two-three men get shot going after him across the mesa, Harshaw said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothin' doing. Not right away anyhow. Houck's foolishness got him into the hole where he is. He'll have to wait till we clean out this nest in the gulch. Soon as we've done that we'll go after him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the Utes will rush the willows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry, but he'll have to take his chance of that. Any of the rest of us would in his place. You've done what you could, son. That lets you out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I'm going back, Bob said quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told him I would. I got to go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That wouldn't be r-right sensible, would it? asked Blister." }, { "from": "human", "value": "N-not right away anyhow. After we get those b-birds outa the blackberry bushes, time enough then for you to h-hit the back trail." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I promised. There was in Bob's face a look Blister had never seen there before, something hard and dogged and implacable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My notion is for half a dozen of us to go on horses--swing round by the far edge of the mesa. We can drop down into the valley an' pick Houck up if we're lucky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if you're not lucky?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, o' course we might have trouble. Got to take our chances on that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They might wipe the whole bunch of you out. No, sir. I need my men right here. This whole thing's comin' to a show-down right soon. Houck will have to wait." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I got to go back, Mr. Harshaw, Bob insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I done promised him I would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Looky here, boy. You'll do as you please, of course. But there's no sense in being bull-haided. How much do you figure you owe this Jake Houck? I never heard tell he was yore best friend. You got him into the willows. You went to the river and brought him water. You ran a big risk comin' here to get help for him. We'll go to him just as soon as it's safe. That ought to content you." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going back to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you're a darn fool. He wouldn't go a step of the way for you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe not. That ain't the point. He needs me. Do I get a horse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you're bound an' determined to go, Harshaw said. After a momentary hesitation he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if any of the boys want to go along they can. I'm not hinderin' them. But my advice is for them to stick right here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any one want to take a chance? We'll snake Houck outa the willows an' make a getaway sure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Or else you'll stay there with him permanent, Harshaw contributed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's plumb foolishness, boys. Houck had his orders an' he broke away from them deliberate. He'd ought to take what's comin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it was anybody but Houck, Bob, I'd trail along with you. I sure would. But I can't see as there's any call for us to take such a big risk for him. He's got it in for us both. Said himself he was layin' for us. You stood by him to a fare-you-well. Ain't that enough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I got to go back, Dud. He's a mighty sick man, an' he needs me. The Utes are liable to find him any time. Maybe I could stand 'em off." }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' maybe you couldn't, Blister said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's plumb s-suicide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought you told me to be a wolf, to hop to it every chance I got to do some crazy thing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well, a f-fellow wants to have some sense. I never see a good thing that couldn't be r-run into the ground. Far as I know, I never told you to stand on the D. & R. G. tracks an' try to stop the express with yore head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll have to be going now, Bob said. He turned to Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's that bronc I get to carry me back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Up there in the piñons. Dud, you see he gets a good one. I'm wishin' you luck, son. An' I'll say one thing right out in meetin'. You're a better man than Lou Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shucks! Tha's foolishness, Bob murmured, embarrassed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm scared stiff if you want to know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon that's why you're aimin' for to make a target of yorese'f again, Hawks suggested ironically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Damn 'f I'd do it for the best man alive, let alone Jake Houck. No, sir. I'll go a reasonable way, but I quit this side of suicide. I sure do." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Last call for volunteers, boys. Anybody want to take a ride?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dawg-gone you, I'll go," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not you, Blister. You're too fat. We're liable to have to travel fast." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm soft in the haid, Dud grunted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gonna trail along. I'll tell you right now I ain't lost Houck any, but if you're set on this fool business, why, I'll take a whirl with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good old Dud, Bob beamed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet we get away with it fine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crazy old Dud, the owner of the name grumbled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet we get our topknots scalped." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A heap more comfortable ridin' here, Dud said, easing his horse for a few moments to a slower pace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never did know before why the good Lord made so much of this country stand up on end, but if I get outa this hole I'll not kick at travelin' over hills so frequent. They sure got their uses when Injuns are pluggin' at you." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where'd you get the notion, you red devils, that Jake Houck is a quitter? Torment me, will you? Burn me up with thirst, eh? Go to it an' see." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know me, Houck? We've come to look after you. This is Dud Hollister. You know him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What if I did gun him? the high-pitched voice maundered on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tried to steal my bronc, he did, an' I wouldn't stand for it a minute.... All right. Light yore fires. Burn me up, you hounds of Hades. I'm not askin' no favors. Not none a-tall." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Expect I'd better take a pasear an' see where Mr. Ute's at, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's liable to drap in onexpected while we're not lookin'--several of him, huntin' for souvenirs in the scalp line for to decorate his belt with." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wow! I'm glad to see you. Heard that shot an' thought maybe they'd got you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so you can notice it, Dud replied cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they're all round us. I took a crack at one inquisitive buck who had notions of collectin' me. He ce'tainly hit the dust sudden as he vamosed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What'll we do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I found a kinda buffalo wallow in the willows. We'll move in on a lease an' sit tight till Harshaw an' the boys show up." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys are attackin' the gulch, Dud guessed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sounds like they might be makin' a clean-up too." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've got the Utes outa the gulch an' are drivin' them down the valley. Right soon they're liable to light on us hard. Depends on how much the boys are pressin' them." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't like that, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the Utes have time they'll try to pick us up as they're passin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think so. Something moved. Down in that hollow. He's outa sight now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've got us located, then. Old Man Trouble headed this way. Something liable to start. Soon now." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're gettin' warm," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good boys! They're comin' in on the rear. Hi yi yippy yi!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Either of you boys hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a scratch on either of us," }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Godfrey! I'm plumb pleased. Couldn't get it outa my head that they'd got you lads. How's Houck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's right sick. Doc had ought to look after him soon. He's had one mighty bad day of it." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear you done quit the Slash Lazy D outfit. What's the idee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothin' in ridin', Bob told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A fellow had ought to get a piece of land on the river an' run some cattle of his own. Me an' Dud aim to do that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hmp! An' meanwhile?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're rip-rappin' the river for old man Wilson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Takes a good man to start on a s-shoestring an' make it go with cattle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's why we're going into it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you boys loafin' here for when I need help in the dining-room? Can either of you sling hash?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can. L-lead us to the job, ma'am." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "D-do you want a r-reloadin' outfit?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Gov, take my tip an' try one o' these here steaks. They ain't from dogy stock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go you once, Blister," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How about you, Gen? Does that go d-double?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take a tenderloin steak, sir, done medium." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll sure find it'll s-stick to yore ribs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blister's liable to be shot at daybreak. He's lessie-majesting the U.S. Army." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gleat smoke, Blister spill cup cloffee on general." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before you an' Dud go away I want to see you a minute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want to see me an' Dud?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, not Dud--you." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dud says you an' he are going to take up preëmptions and run cattle of your own," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Harshaw's going to stake us. We'll divide the increase." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad. Dud ought to quit going rippity-cut every which way. No use his wastin' five or six years before he gets started for himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're steadier than he is. You'll hold him down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dud's all right. You'll find him there like a rock when you need him. Best fellow in all this White River country." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One of the best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stay with you to a fare-you-well, he went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I knew a girl--if I had a sister--well, I'd sure trust her to Dud Hollister. All wool an' a yard wide that boy is." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Game as they make 'em. Know where he's at every turn of the road. I'd ce'tainly back his play to a finish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Best old pal a fellow ever had." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's really a pity you haven't a sister," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You give him a good recommendation, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How about his friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Reeves?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Bob Dillon. Her dark eyes met his fairly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, I'm _so_ glad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About us preëmptin'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. About you being the hero of the campaign." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's plumb foolishness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is--not. Think I haven't heard all about it? How you dragged Jake Houck into the willows right spang from among the Utes? How you went to the river an' got him water? How you went for help when everybody thought you'd be killed? An' how you shamed Dud into going back with you? I made Mr. Harshaw tell me all he knew--and Dud too. He said--Mr. Harshaw said--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you how it was, June. When I saw Houck lying out there with a busted leg I didn't know who he was--thought maybe it was Dud. So I had to go an' get him. If I'd known it was Houck--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You knew it was Houck before you dragged him back, didn't you? she charged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You knew it when you went to the river to get him water?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truth is, I was scared so I shook, he confessed humbly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But when a fellow's sufferin' like Jake Houck was--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even your enemy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, enemies don't count when you're fightin' Utes together. I had to look after him--couldn't duck it. Different with Dud when he rode back to get Tom Reeves. Did you hear about that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I heard about that, she said dryly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we're talking of another man now. You've got to stand there an' take it, Bob. It won't last but a minute anyhow. I never was so tickled in my life before. When I thought of all you've suffered an' gone through, an' how now you've stopped the tongues of all the folks who jeered at you, I went to my room and cried like a little girl. You'll understand, won't you? I had to tell you this because we've promised to be friends. Oh, I am _so_ glad for you, Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I'll understand, June. It--it was awful nice of you to tell me. I reckon you ought to hate me, the way I treated you. Most girls would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As if _you_ knew what most girls would think, she derided. Nevertheless she shifted the conversation to grounds less personal and dangerous." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you can tell me some more about that Dud you're always braggin' of." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ever notice how a jack-rabbit jumps high when it's crowded?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like a deer. Crowd one an' he gets to jumpin' high. 'D you see that jack turn a somersault just as I threw my rope the last time?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Country looks good round here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What we lookin' for anyhow, Bob?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wood, grass, and water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, they're right here, ain't they?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How about roads? Bob asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old-timers claim we'll never get roads here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one's going to take up all this river land mighty soon. That's a cinch. An' the roads will come right soon after the settlers. Fact is, we've got to jump if we're going to take up land on the river an' get a choice location." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My notion too, agreed Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'd better get a surveyor out here this week." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "We got to adopt ourselves to new ways, old Sure-Shot, he ruminated aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got to quit hellin' around an' raisin' Cain. Leastways I have. You never did do any o' that. Yes, sir, I got to be a responsible citizen." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be raisin' little towheads right soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir. Not me. Not Dud Hollister. I can boss my own se'f for a spell yet, the fair-haired youth protested vehemently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I said we got to adopt ourselves, I was thinkin' of barb-wire fences an' timothy hay. 'S all right to let the dogies rough through the winter an' hunt the gulches when the storms come. But it won't do with stock that's bred up. Harshaw lost close to forty per cent of his cattle three years ago. It sure put some crimp in him. He was hit hard again last winter. You know that. Say he'd had valuable stock. Why, it would put him outa business. Sure would." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, admitted Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a schoolmarm down at Meeker was askin' me about you. You know her--that snappin'-eyed brunette. Wanted to know all about yore claim, an' was it a good one, an' didn't I think Mr. Hollister a perfect gentleman, an'--" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, we got to feed. Tha's the new law an' the gospel of the range, Dud continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got to keep our cattle under fence in winter an' look after 'em right. Cattle-raisin' as a gamble will be a losing bet right soon. It's a business now. Am I right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sounds reasonable to me, Dud." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything I can do for you, Houck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good. Thought you kinda favored it a little when you walked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess the soldiers got the Utes corralled all right by this time. Hear anything new about that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Houck replied shortly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got an empty gunnysack I could have?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take a slab of side meat an' a pound of ground coffee," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're kinda garnished with weapons, stranger. Not aimin' to hold up the town, are you?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the stranger gave me that look of his I knew right away something was doing. 'Course I didn't know what. I'll not claim I did, but I was sure there'd be a job for the coroner before night. Blister come into the store just after he left. I said to him, 'Who's that big black guy?' He says, 'Jake Houck.' 'Well,' I says, 'Jake Houck is sure up to some deviltry.'" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look what's here, Sure-Shot. Yore friend Bandy--old, tried, an' true." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear Larson's bought the K T brand. Anything to it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paid seven thousand down, time on the balance, Mike said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How you lads makin' it on Elk?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine. We got the best preëmptions on the river. Plenty of good grass, wood an' water handy, a first-class summer range. It's an A1 layout, looks like." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At the end of nowhere, I reckon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The best steers are on the edge of the herd, Dud retorted cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's that way with ranches too. A fellow couldn't raise much of a herd in Denver, could he?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've killed Ferril." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carryin' a good deal of hardware, ain't they, Gus?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most of the boys are quittin' that foolishness, but some of 'em can't get it out of their heads that they look big when they're gun-toters. Kind of a kid business, looks to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't call that big black fellow a kid. Who is he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know. Reckon we're due to find out. He's breakin' away from the other fellow and movin' this way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't weaken, Dave, he said in a whisper out of the corner of his mouth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll be outa town in ten minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stick yore hands up!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bank money--quick. No silver--gold an' any bills you've got." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No monkey business, snarled Houck after he had stood up against the opposite wall the cattleman and the depositor who chanced to be in the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This all you got? Speak up, or I'll drill you." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time to go, announced Houck grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're goin' with us far as our horses--all of you. We ain't lookin' for to be bushwhacked." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lead the way," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry, Jake, for God's sake. They're all round us." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mister Blowning he keep busy asking for dollars. He tell me givee to the Lord. Gleat smoke, Lord allee timee bloke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Know where there's a rifle, June?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not the Utes again?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bank robbers. I want a gun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll--be careful?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many of 'em?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D-don't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still in the bank, are they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got you covered. Throw down yore guns," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another of 'em, Houck said aloud with a savage oath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any one else lookin' for it?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What about the third fellow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Went into the bank, Blister said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I s-saw him duck in just before the shooting began." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one get Doc Tuckerman, quick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carry Art into the hotel. I'll have a bed ready for him time you get there. Anybody else hurt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one said Ferril was shot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. He's all right. There he is over there by the wagons. See? Lookin' after the gold in the sack." }, { "from": "human", "value": "McCray's been s-shot--here in the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring him in too," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got to get a move on me, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got in after the fireworks were over. Want to join Blister's posse now. You comin', Bob?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not now," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right. I'll be hustlin' along," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was kinda awful, wasn't it? Gave me a turn when I saw them lying there. Must have been worse for you. Did you--hit ..?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. He was humiliated at the confession." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't fire a shot. Couldn't, somehow. Everybody was blazin' away at 'em. That's the kind of nerve I've got," }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' that's the kind I love. Oh, Bob, I wouldn't want to think you'd killed either of those poor men, an' one of them just a boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some one had to do it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but not you. And they didn't have to brag afterward about it, did they? That's horrible. Everybody going around telling how they shot them. As if it was something to be proud of. I'm so glad you're not in it. Let the others have the glory if they want it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all very well, but they were a bad lot. They didn't hesitate to kill. The town had to defend itself. No, it was just that I'm such a--baby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're not! she protested indignantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have you say it, either." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no one like you in the world, June, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody in all the world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got to go, she said hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mollie'll be expectin' me." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better come out from there. I see you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you're here. You didn't get away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm here, Houck growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No chance for a getaway. I ran out the back door of the bank an' ducked into the hotel. This was the first door I come to, an' I headed in." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're lookin' for you along the river," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'd better hope they don't find me, some of 'em," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So had you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did they die, either o' those fellows I shot?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fools, the pair of 'em. If that bank teller hadn't grabbed for his gun we'd 'a' got away with it fine." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "As it is, you've reached the end of your rope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think I'm at the end of a rope. I'm a long ways from there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the men with you are gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How gone? Did they get 'em?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neither of them ever moved out of his tracks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I heard the shootin' I figured it would be thataway," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't stay here, she told him coldly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have to go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go where? Can you get me a horse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I got to have a horse, girl, he wheedled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't travel without one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care how far you travel or what becomes of you. I want you out of here. That's all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't want me shootin' up some o' yore friends, would you? Well, then. If they find me here there'll be some funerals in Bear Cat. You can bet heavy on that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They can take care of themselves. I won't have you here. I'll not protect you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Throw me down, would you? Tell 'em I'm here, mebbe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't try to bully me. It's not worth wasting your time." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sho! You're not so goshalmighty. You're jes' June Tolliver. I'm the same Jake Houck you once promised to marry. Don't forget that, girl. I took you from that white-livered fellow you married--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who saved you from the Utes when nobody else would lift a finger for you. That comes well from you of all men," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't the point. What I'm sayin' is that I'll not stand for you throwin' me down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can you do?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You aimin' for to sell me out?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. I won't be responsible for your death." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tha's the way to talk, June. Help me outa this hole. You can if you're a mind to. Have they got patrols out everywhere?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only on the river side of the town. They think you escaped that way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if you'll get me a horse--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll not do it. She reflected a moment, thinking out the situation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you can reach the foothills you'll have a chance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll reach 'em. You can gamble on that, if I have to drop a coupla guys like I did this mornin'." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go with you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go with me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Across the park. If they see me with you, nobody'll pay any attention to you. Pull your hat down over your eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better leave your guns here. If anyone sees them--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothin' doing. My guns go right with me. What are you trying to pull off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep them under your coat, then. We don't want folks looking at us too curiously. We'll stroll along as if we were interested in our talk. When we meet any one, if we do, you can look down at me. That'll hide your face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You going with me clear to the edge of town?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. Just across the square, where it's light an' there are liable to be people. You'll have to look out for yourself after that. It's not more than two hundred yards to the sagebrush." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm ready whenever you are," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glood-eveling" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll leave you at the corner, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go back of that house and through the barbed-wire fence. You'll be in the sage then." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me to the fence, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got something to tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've got nothing to tell me that I want to hear. I'm not doing this for you, but to save the lives of my friends. Understand that." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't! she begged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He had it comin'. He was askin' for it," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must hurry--hurry! When they heard that shot--Listen! There's some one coming. Oh, run, run!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob--Bob!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did he hit you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hit me--who?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That Houck. He shot you. Oh, Bob, are you much hurt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L-let's have a look," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We better carry him to the hotel, the cattleman said to the justice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who did it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Houck," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can walk, he protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lemme try, anyhow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's the wound at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "J-June, you go get Doc T-Tuckerman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for the blood, Bob said, still faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ouch!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N-no blood here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I felt it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "R-reckon not, son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe it's bleeding internally," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe it ain't, Larson said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Looks like he hit yore belt an' the bullet went flyin' wild." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a false alarm, he told her bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He didn't hit me a-tall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hit his b-belt buckle. If this here T-Texas man lives to be a hundred he'll never have a closer call. Think of a fellow whangin' away with a forty-five right close to him, hitting him where he was aimin' for, and not even scratching Bob. O' course the shock of it knocked him cold. Naturally it would. But I'll go on record that our friend here was born lucky. I'd ought by rights to be holdin' an inquest on the remains," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the use of all that explainin', Blister? he said bluntly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fact is, I got scared an' quit cold. Thought I was shot up when I wasn't even powder-burnt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never did see such a fellow for backin' hisself into a corner an' allowin' that he's a plumb quitter. I'll bet, if the facts were known, he come through all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Dud. He must have seen Jake Houck with me, and when Jake--annoyed me--Bob jumped at him and hit him. Then Jake shot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lucky he didn't shoot again after Bob was down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I kinda got in his way--and told him he'd better hurry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but--Where did you meet Houck? How did he happen to be with you? asked Larson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be on this side of town he must 'a' slipped through the guards." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He never went to the river. I found him under the bed in my room a few minutes ago. Said he ran in there after he left the bank. He wanted me to get him a horse. I wouldn't. But I knew if he was found cornered he would kill somebody before he was taken. Maybe two or three. I didn't know. And of course he wouldn't 'a' let me leave the room alone anyhow. So I said I'd walk across the park with him and let him slip into the sage. I thought it would be better." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better get the boys on his trail immediate." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all the rumpus about?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jake Houck was seen crossin' the park. He got into the sage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sho! I'll bet the hole of a doughnut he ain't been seen. If you was to ask me I'd say he was twenty-five miles from here right now, an' not lettin' no grass grow under his feet neither. I been talkin' to old wooden head here about the railroad comin' in. Tom's eyes twinkled. His friend guessed that he was trying to get a rise out of the old-timer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's sure some mossback. I been tellin' him the railroad's comin' through here an' Meeker right soon, but he can't see it. I reckon the toot of an engine would scare him 'most to death." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't get excited about that railroad, son, drawled the former hard-rock driller, chewing his cud equably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I rode a horse to death fifteen years ago to beat the choo-choo train in here, an' I notice it ain't arriv yet." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "June!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, you silly boy! As if--as if it matters why you were stunned. You were. That's enough. I'm so glad--so glad you're not hurt. It's 'most a miracle. He might have killed you." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What matters is that when I called you came, she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You weren't afraid then, were you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hadn't time. That's why. I just jumped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. The expression in her soft eyes was veiled, like autumn fires in the hills blazing through mists." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You just jumped to help me. You forgot he carried two forty-fives and would use them, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he admitted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon if I'd thought of that--" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "T-Texas man, she squeaked, stuttering a little in mimicry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose image are you m-made in?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got over all the world?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dominion, ma'am, but not over all of it, I reckon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right smart of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have yore own way. I know you will anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' what are you a little lower than?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a heap lower than one angel I know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're no such thing. You're as good as any one--and better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't say better," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trouble with you is you're so meek, she stormed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You let anybody run it over you till they go too far. What's the use of crying your own goods down? Tell the world you're Bob Dillon and for it to watch your dust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want me to brag an' strut like Jake Houck?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No-o, not like that. But Blister's right. You've got to know your worth. When you're sure of it you don't have to tell other people about it. They know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tha's correct," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is my red haid high enough now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I got over all the world?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dominion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Over all of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--don't--know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have your own way, she replied, trying feebly to escape an emotional climax by repeating the words he had used." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you will anyhow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say it, then. Every teeny bit of it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That means June Tolliver too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "June Dillon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You precious lamb!" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Must be close to him, one said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got the makin's, Jim?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure. Evidently the tobacco pouch was passed from one to the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right in these rocks somewhere, I shouldn't wonder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbeso. Mebbe still hot-footin' it for the hills. He's in one heluva hurry if you ask me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Killed Bob Dillon in the park, I heard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he did he'll sure hang for it, after what Dillon did for him." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right. You got me. Go to it, you red devils," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon you're right glad to see me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not dumb, are you? Speak up, some of you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man-with-loud-tongue die. He kill Indian--give him no chance. Indians kill him now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure I killed him. He'd stolen my horse, hadn't he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Black Arrow my son. You kill him. He take your horse mebbe. You take Ute horse. He pointed to the pinto." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ute kill Man-with-loud-tongue." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Black Arrow reached for his gun. I had to shoot. It was an even break." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is Man-with-loud-tongue a yellow coyote? Does he carry the heart of a squaw? Will he cry like a pappoose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who told you I was yellow? Where did you get that? I ain't scared of all the damned Utes that ever came outa hell." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Onload it, he jeered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm no squaw. Shoot it at me. Jake Houck ain't scared." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man-with-loud-tongue claim this horse. Utes give it him. Horse his. Man-with-loud-tongue satisfied then maybe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you aimin' to do, you red devils?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sorry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know whether I am. Oh, June girl, I didn't know it would be like this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor I, Bob." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know. Looks kinda queer. It's got some sort of harness on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, it's a man." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a Ute pony," } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better go back to the road, June, her husband advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's too late to do anything for this poor fellow." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who was it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jake Houck, he told her gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Utes did it--because he killed Black Arrow, I reckon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll go on now, he said gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come back later with your father." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll not let that spoil the day, will you, June? He had it coming, you know. Houck had gone bad. If it hadn't been the Utes, it would have been the law a little later." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but-- She tried to answer his smile, not very successfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's rather--awful, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's walk over to the cabin, dear." } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guess! Guess what!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon I done guessed, honeybug," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're to come and live with us. Isn't he, Bob?" } ]
26520	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You be good to her or I'll--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sure will," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's the one ought to worry, Dad. I'm the flyaway on this team." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm worryin' a heap," } ]
288001	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Marthe," } ]
304807	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear that?" } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go to the Woods," } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, mother, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will not go for nought." }, { "from": "human", "value": "SHE SENT HIM TO MARKET, A LIVE GOOSE HE BOUGHT." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's very rude of him, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To come and spoil the fun!" } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this were only cleared away, They said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That they could get it clear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Oysters, come and walk with us! The Walrus did beseech." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The time has come, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But wait a bit, the Oysters cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No hurry!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A loaf of bread, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was so kind of you to come! And you are very nice! The Carpenter said nothing but" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cut us another slice: I wish you were not quite so deaf-- I've had to ask you twice!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems a shame, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To play them such a trick, After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick! The Carpenter said nothing but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The butter's spread too thick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I weep for you, the Walrus said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I deeply sympathize." }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Oysters, said the Carpenter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?" } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go round, With your horse and your hound, For you never shall leap over my gate." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE WAS AN OWL LIVED IN AN OAK." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll shoot you, silly bird, So Fiddle, Faddle, Feedle!" } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "DICKERY, DICKERY, DARE." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going a-milking, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're kindly welcome, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your father, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My father's a farmer, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My face is my fortune, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody asked you, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "OLD MOTHER HUBBARD WENT TO THE CUPBOARD." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE DAME MADE A CURTSEY, THE DOG MADE A BOW." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your servant, The Dog said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bow wow." } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a good boy am I!" } ]
39784	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all should keep to time and place, And all should keep to rule, Both waves upon the sandy shore, And little boys at school." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "JENNY BLUSHED BEHIND HER FAN." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "G-glory be, son. I 'most had heart f-failure whilst you was hoofin' it over the mesa. Oh, boy! I'm g-glad to see you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got to go--back again," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's that? demanded Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Back where?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To--to the river. I came to get help--for Houck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Houck?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's down there in the willows wounded." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You been down there l-lookin' after him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. They hit him in the leg--twice. An' once in the side. He's outa his head. I got him water from the river." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was that when I heard shootin' down there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'll be d-dawg-goned!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Houck was down in the open last I seen him, Hawks said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did he crawl to the willows?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I kinda helped him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hmp! An' now you think we'd ought to let two-three men get shot going after him across the mesa, Harshaw said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothin' doing. Not right away anyhow. Houck's foolishness got him into the hole where he is. He'll have to wait till we clean out this nest in the gulch. Soon as we've done that we'll go after him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the Utes will rush the willows," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry, but he'll have to take his chance of that. Any of the rest of us would in his place. You've done what you could, son. That lets you out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I'm going back, Bob said quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I told him I would. I got to go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That wouldn't be r-right sensible, would it? asked Blister." }, { "from": "human", "value": "N-not right away anyhow. After we get those b-birds outa the blackberry bushes, time enough then for you to h-hit the back trail." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I promised. There was in Bob's face a look Blister had never seen there before, something hard and dogged and implacable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My notion is for half a dozen of us to go on horses--swing round by the far edge of the mesa. We can drop down into the valley an' pick Houck up if we're lucky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if you're not lucky?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, o' course we might have trouble. Got to take our chances on that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They might wipe the whole bunch of you out. No, sir. I need my men right here. This whole thing's comin' to a show-down right soon. Houck will have to wait." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I got to go back, Mr. Harshaw, Bob insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I done promised him I would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Looky here, boy. You'll do as you please, of course. But there's no sense in being bull-haided. How much do you figure you owe this Jake Houck? I never heard tell he was yore best friend. You got him into the willows. You went to the river and brought him water. You ran a big risk comin' here to get help for him. We'll go to him just as soon as it's safe. That ought to content you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going back to him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you're a darn fool. He wouldn't go a step of the way for you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe not. That ain't the point. He needs me. Do I get a horse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, if you're bound an' determined to go, Harshaw said. After a momentary hesitation he added:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if any of the boys want to go along they can. I'm not hinderin' them. But my advice is for them to stick right here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any one want to take a chance? We'll snake Houck outa the willows an' make a getaway sure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Or else you'll stay there with him permanent, Harshaw contributed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's plumb foolishness, boys. Houck had his orders an' he broke away from them deliberate. He'd ought to take what's comin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it was anybody but Houck, Bob, I'd trail along with you. I sure would. But I can't see as there's any call for us to take such a big risk for him. He's got it in for us both. Said himself he was layin' for us. You stood by him to a fare-you-well. Ain't that enough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I got to go back, Dud. He's a mighty sick man, an' he needs me. The Utes are liable to find him any time. Maybe I could stand 'em off." }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' maybe you couldn't, Blister said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's plumb s-suicide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought you told me to be a wolf, to hop to it every chance I got to do some crazy thing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well, a f-fellow wants to have some sense. I never see a good thing that couldn't be r-run into the ground. Far as I know, I never told you to stand on the D. & R. G. tracks an' try to stop the express with yore head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll have to be going now, Bob said. He turned to Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's that bronc I get to carry me back?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Up there in the piñons. Dud, you see he gets a good one. I'm wishin' you luck, son. An' I'll say one thing right out in meetin'. You're a better man than Lou Harshaw." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shucks! Tha's foolishness, Bob murmured, embarrassed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm scared stiff if you want to know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon that's why you're aimin' for to make a target of yorese'f again, Hawks suggested ironically." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Damn 'f I'd do it for the best man alive, let alone Jake Houck. No, sir. I'll go a reasonable way, but I quit this side of suicide. I sure do." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Last call for volunteers, boys. Anybody want to take a ride?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dawg-gone you, I'll go," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not you, Blister. You're too fat. We're liable to have to travel fast." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm soft in the haid, Dud grunted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gonna trail along. I'll tell you right now I ain't lost Houck any, but if you're set on this fool business, why, I'll take a whirl with you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good old Dud, Bob beamed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet we get away with it fine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crazy old Dud, the owner of the name grumbled." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet we get our topknots scalped." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A heap more comfortable ridin' here, Dud said, easing his horse for a few moments to a slower pace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never did know before why the good Lord made so much of this country stand up on end, but if I get outa this hole I'll not kick at travelin' over hills so frequent. They sure got their uses when Injuns are pluggin' at you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where'd you get the notion, you red devils, that Jake Houck is a quitter? Torment me, will you? Burn me up with thirst, eh? Go to it an' see." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know me, Houck? We've come to look after you. This is Dud Hollister. You know him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What if I did gun him? the high-pitched voice maundered on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tried to steal my bronc, he did, an' I wouldn't stand for it a minute.... All right. Light yore fires. Burn me up, you hounds of Hades. I'm not askin' no favors. Not none a-tall." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Expect I'd better take a pasear an' see where Mr. Ute's at, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's liable to drap in onexpected while we're not lookin'--several of him, huntin' for souvenirs in the scalp line for to decorate his belt with." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wow! I'm glad to see you. Heard that shot an' thought maybe they'd got you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so you can notice it, Dud replied cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they're all round us. I took a crack at one inquisitive buck who had notions of collectin' me. He ce'tainly hit the dust sudden as he vamosed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What'll we do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I found a kinda buffalo wallow in the willows. We'll move in on a lease an' sit tight till Harshaw an' the boys show up." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys are attackin' the gulch, Dud guessed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sounds like they might be makin' a clean-up too." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've got the Utes outa the gulch an' are drivin' them down the valley. Right soon they're liable to light on us hard. Depends on how much the boys are pressin' them." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't like that, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the Utes have time they'll try to pick us up as they're passin'." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think so. Something moved. Down in that hollow. He's outa sight now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've got us located, then. Old Man Trouble headed this way. Something liable to start. Soon now." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're gettin' warm," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good boys! They're comin' in on the rear. Hi yi yippy yi!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Either of you boys hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a scratch on either of us," }, { "from": "human", "value": "By Godfrey! I'm plumb pleased. Couldn't get it outa my head that they'd got you lads. How's Houck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's right sick. Doc had ought to look after him soon. He's had one mighty bad day of it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear you done quit the Slash Lazy D outfit. What's the idee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothin' in ridin', Bob told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A fellow had ought to get a piece of land on the river an' run some cattle of his own. Me an' Dud aim to do that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hmp! An' meanwhile?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're rip-rappin' the river for old man Wilson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Takes a good man to start on a s-shoestring an' make it go with cattle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's why we're going into it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you boys loafin' here for when I need help in the dining-room? Can either of you sling hash?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We can. L-lead us to the job, ma'am." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D-do you want a r-reloadin' outfit?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Gov, take my tip an' try one o' these here steaks. They ain't from dogy stock." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go you once, Blister," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How about you, Gen? Does that go d-double?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take a tenderloin steak, sir, done medium." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll sure find it'll s-stick to yore ribs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blister's liable to be shot at daybreak. He's lessie-majesting the U.S. Army." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gleat smoke, Blister spill cup cloffee on general." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before you an' Dud go away I want to see you a minute." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Want to see me an' Dud?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, not Dud--you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dud says you an' he are going to take up preëmptions and run cattle of your own," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Harshaw's going to stake us. We'll divide the increase." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad. Dud ought to quit going rippity-cut every which way. No use his wastin' five or six years before he gets started for himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're steadier than he is. You'll hold him down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dud's all right. You'll find him there like a rock when you need him. Best fellow in all this White River country." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One of the best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stay with you to a fare-you-well, he went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I knew a girl--if I had a sister--well, I'd sure trust her to Dud Hollister. All wool an' a yard wide that boy is." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Game as they make 'em. Know where he's at every turn of the road. I'd ce'tainly back his play to a finish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Best old pal a fellow ever had." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's really a pity you haven't a sister," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You give him a good recommendation, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How about his friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Reeves?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Bob Dillon. Her dark eyes met his fairly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, I'm _so_ glad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About us preëmptin'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. About you being the hero of the campaign." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's plumb foolishness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, it is--not. Think I haven't heard all about it? How you dragged Jake Houck into the willows right spang from among the Utes? How you went to the river an' got him water? How you went for help when everybody thought you'd be killed? An' how you shamed Dud into going back with you? I made Mr. Harshaw tell me all he knew--and Dud too. He said--Mr. Harshaw said--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you how it was, June. When I saw Houck lying out there with a busted leg I didn't know who he was--thought maybe it was Dud. So I had to go an' get him. If I'd known it was Houck--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You knew it was Houck before you dragged him back, didn't you? she charged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You knew it when you went to the river to get him water?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Truth is, I was scared so I shook, he confessed humbly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But when a fellow's sufferin' like Jake Houck was--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even your enemy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, enemies don't count when you're fightin' Utes together. I had to look after him--couldn't duck it. Different with Dud when he rode back to get Tom Reeves. Did you hear about that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I heard about that, she said dryly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we're talking of another man now. You've got to stand there an' take it, Bob. It won't last but a minute anyhow. I never was so tickled in my life before. When I thought of all you've suffered an' gone through, an' how now you've stopped the tongues of all the folks who jeered at you, I went to my room and cried like a little girl. You'll understand, won't you? I had to tell you this because we've promised to be friends. Oh, I am _so_ glad for you, Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I'll understand, June. It--it was awful nice of you to tell me. I reckon you ought to hate me, the way I treated you. Most girls would." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As if _you_ knew what most girls would think, she derided. Nevertheless she shifted the conversation to grounds less personal and dangerous." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you can tell me some more about that Dud you're always braggin' of." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ever notice how a jack-rabbit jumps high when it's crowded?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like a deer. Crowd one an' he gets to jumpin' high. 'D you see that jack turn a somersault just as I threw my rope the last time?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Country looks good round here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What we lookin' for anyhow, Bob?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wood, grass, and water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, they're right here, ain't they?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How about roads? Bob asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The old-timers claim we'll never get roads here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one's going to take up all this river land mighty soon. That's a cinch. An' the roads will come right soon after the settlers. Fact is, we've got to jump if we're going to take up land on the river an' get a choice location." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My notion too, agreed Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'd better get a surveyor out here this week." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We got to adopt ourselves to new ways, old Sure-Shot, he ruminated aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got to quit hellin' around an' raisin' Cain. Leastways I have. You never did do any o' that. Yes, sir, I got to be a responsible citizen." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll be raisin' little towheads right soon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir. Not me. Not Dud Hollister. I can boss my own se'f for a spell yet, the fair-haired youth protested vehemently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I said we got to adopt ourselves, I was thinkin' of barb-wire fences an' timothy hay. 'S all right to let the dogies rough through the winter an' hunt the gulches when the storms come. But it won't do with stock that's bred up. Harshaw lost close to forty per cent of his cattle three years ago. It sure put some crimp in him. He was hit hard again last winter. You know that. Say he'd had valuable stock. Why, it would put him outa business. Sure would." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, admitted Bob." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a schoolmarm down at Meeker was askin' me about you. You know her--that snappin'-eyed brunette. Wanted to know all about yore claim, an' was it a good one, an' didn't I think Mr. Hollister a perfect gentleman, an'--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, we got to feed. Tha's the new law an' the gospel of the range, Dud continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got to keep our cattle under fence in winter an' look after 'em right. Cattle-raisin' as a gamble will be a losing bet right soon. It's a business now. Am I right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sounds reasonable to me, Dud." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything I can do for you, Houck?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good. Thought you kinda favored it a little when you walked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess the soldiers got the Utes corralled all right by this time. Hear anything new about that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Houck replied shortly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got an empty gunnysack I could have?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take a slab of side meat an' a pound of ground coffee," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're kinda garnished with weapons, stranger. Not aimin' to hold up the town, are you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the stranger gave me that look of his I knew right away something was doing. 'Course I didn't know what. I'll not claim I did, but I was sure there'd be a job for the coroner before night. Blister come into the store just after he left. I said to him, 'Who's that big black guy?' He says, 'Jake Houck.' 'Well,' I says, 'Jake Houck is sure up to some deviltry.'" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look what's here, Sure-Shot. Yore friend Bandy--old, tried, an' true." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear Larson's bought the K T brand. Anything to it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paid seven thousand down, time on the balance, Mike said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How you lads makin' it on Elk?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine. We got the best preëmptions on the river. Plenty of good grass, wood an' water handy, a first-class summer range. It's an A1 layout, looks like." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At the end of nowhere, I reckon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The best steers are on the edge of the herd, Dud retorted cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's that way with ranches too. A fellow couldn't raise much of a herd in Denver, could he?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've killed Ferril." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carryin' a good deal of hardware, ain't they, Gus?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most of the boys are quittin' that foolishness, but some of 'em can't get it out of their heads that they look big when they're gun-toters. Kind of a kid business, looks to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't call that big black fellow a kid. Who is he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know. Reckon we're due to find out. He's breakin' away from the other fellow and movin' this way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't weaken, Dave, he said in a whisper out of the corner of his mouth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll be outa town in ten minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stick yore hands up!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bank money--quick. No silver--gold an' any bills you've got." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No monkey business, snarled Houck after he had stood up against the opposite wall the cattleman and the depositor who chanced to be in the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This all you got? Speak up, or I'll drill you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time to go, announced Houck grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're goin' with us far as our horses--all of you. We ain't lookin' for to be bushwhacked." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lead the way," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry, Jake, for God's sake. They're all round us." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mister Blowning he keep busy asking for dollars. He tell me givee to the Lord. Gleat smoke, Lord allee timee bloke?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Know where there's a rifle, June?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not the Utes again?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bank robbers. I want a gun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll--be careful?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many of 'em?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "D-don't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still in the bank, are they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got you covered. Throw down yore guns," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another of 'em, Houck said aloud with a savage oath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any one else lookin' for it?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What about the third fellow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Went into the bank, Blister said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I s-saw him duck in just before the shooting began." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one get Doc Tuckerman, quick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carry Art into the hotel. I'll have a bed ready for him time you get there. Anybody else hurt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some one said Ferril was shot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. He's all right. There he is over there by the wagons. See? Lookin' after the gold in the sack." }, { "from": "human", "value": "McCray's been s-shot--here in the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring him in too," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Got to get a move on me, Dud said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got in after the fireworks were over. Want to join Blister's posse now. You comin', Bob?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not now," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right. I'll be hustlin' along," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was kinda awful, wasn't it? Gave me a turn when I saw them lying there. Must have been worse for you. Did you--hit ..?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. He was humiliated at the confession." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't fire a shot. Couldn't, somehow. Everybody was blazin' away at 'em. That's the kind of nerve I've got," }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' that's the kind I love. Oh, Bob, I wouldn't want to think you'd killed either of those poor men, an' one of them just a boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some one had to do it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but not you. And they didn't have to brag afterward about it, did they? That's horrible. Everybody going around telling how they shot them. As if it was something to be proud of. I'm so glad you're not in it. Let the others have the glory if they want it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all very well, but they were a bad lot. They didn't hesitate to kill. The town had to defend itself. No, it was just that I'm such a--baby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're not! she protested indignantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't have you say it, either." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's no one like you in the world, June, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody in all the world." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got to go, she said hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mollie'll be expectin' me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better come out from there. I see you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you're here. You didn't get away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm here, Houck growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No chance for a getaway. I ran out the back door of the bank an' ducked into the hotel. This was the first door I come to, an' I headed in." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're lookin' for you along the river," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'd better hope they don't find me, some of 'em," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So had you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did they die, either o' those fellows I shot?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fools, the pair of 'em. If that bank teller hadn't grabbed for his gun we'd 'a' got away with it fine." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As it is, you've reached the end of your rope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think I'm at the end of a rope. I'm a long ways from there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the men with you are gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How gone? Did they get 'em?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neither of them ever moved out of his tracks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I heard the shootin' I figured it would be thataway," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't stay here, she told him coldly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll have to go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go where? Can you get me a horse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I got to have a horse, girl, he wheedled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't travel without one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care how far you travel or what becomes of you. I want you out of here. That's all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't want me shootin' up some o' yore friends, would you? Well, then. If they find me here there'll be some funerals in Bear Cat. You can bet heavy on that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They can take care of themselves. I won't have you here. I'll not protect you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Throw me down, would you? Tell 'em I'm here, mebbe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't try to bully me. It's not worth wasting your time." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sho! You're not so goshalmighty. You're jes' June Tolliver. I'm the same Jake Houck you once promised to marry. Don't forget that, girl. I took you from that white-livered fellow you married--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who saved you from the Utes when nobody else would lift a finger for you. That comes well from you of all men," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't the point. What I'm sayin' is that I'll not stand for you throwin' me down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What can you do?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You aimin' for to sell me out?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. I won't be responsible for your death." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tha's the way to talk, June. Help me outa this hole. You can if you're a mind to. Have they got patrols out everywhere?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only on the river side of the town. They think you escaped that way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if you'll get me a horse--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll not do it. She reflected a moment, thinking out the situation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you can reach the foothills you'll have a chance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll reach 'em. You can gamble on that, if I have to drop a coupla guys like I did this mornin'." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go with you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go with me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Across the park. If they see me with you, nobody'll pay any attention to you. Pull your hat down over your eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better leave your guns here. If anyone sees them--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothin' doing. My guns go right with me. What are you trying to pull off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep them under your coat, then. We don't want folks looking at us too curiously. We'll stroll along as if we were interested in our talk. When we meet any one, if we do, you can look down at me. That'll hide your face." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You going with me clear to the edge of town?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. Just across the square, where it's light an' there are liable to be people. You'll have to look out for yourself after that. It's not more than two hundred yards to the sagebrush." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm ready whenever you are," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glood-eveling" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll leave you at the corner, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go back of that house and through the barbed-wire fence. You'll be in the sage then." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me to the fence, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I got something to tell you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've got nothing to tell me that I want to hear. I'm not doing this for you, but to save the lives of my friends. Understand that." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't! she begged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He had it comin'. He was askin' for it," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must hurry--hurry! When they heard that shot--Listen! There's some one coming. Oh, run, run!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob--Bob!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where did he hit you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hit me--who?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That Houck. He shot you. Oh, Bob, are you much hurt?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L-let's have a look," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We better carry him to the hotel, the cattleman said to the justice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who did it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Houck," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can walk, he protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lemme try, anyhow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's the wound at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "J-June, you go get Doc T-Tuckerman," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for the blood, Bob said, still faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ouch!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N-no blood here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I felt it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "R-reckon not, son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe it's bleeding internally," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe it ain't, Larson said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Looks like he hit yore belt an' the bullet went flyin' wild." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a false alarm, he told her bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He didn't hit me a-tall." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hit his b-belt buckle. If this here T-Texas man lives to be a hundred he'll never have a closer call. Think of a fellow whangin' away with a forty-five right close to him, hitting him where he was aimin' for, and not even scratching Bob. O' course the shock of it knocked him cold. Naturally it would. But I'll go on record that our friend here was born lucky. I'd ought by rights to be holdin' an inquest on the remains," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the use of all that explainin', Blister? he said bluntly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fact is, I got scared an' quit cold. Thought I was shot up when I wasn't even powder-burnt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never did see such a fellow for backin' hisself into a corner an' allowin' that he's a plumb quitter. I'll bet, if the facts were known, he come through all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Dud. He must have seen Jake Houck with me, and when Jake--annoyed me--Bob jumped at him and hit him. Then Jake shot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lucky he didn't shoot again after Bob was down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I kinda got in his way--and told him he'd better hurry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but--Where did you meet Houck? How did he happen to be with you? asked Larson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To be on this side of town he must 'a' slipped through the guards." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He never went to the river. I found him under the bed in my room a few minutes ago. Said he ran in there after he left the bank. He wanted me to get him a horse. I wouldn't. But I knew if he was found cornered he would kill somebody before he was taken. Maybe two or three. I didn't know. And of course he wouldn't 'a' let me leave the room alone anyhow. So I said I'd walk across the park with him and let him slip into the sage. I thought it would be better." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better get the boys on his trail immediate." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all the rumpus about?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jake Houck was seen crossin' the park. He got into the sage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sho! I'll bet the hole of a doughnut he ain't been seen. If you was to ask me I'd say he was twenty-five miles from here right now, an' not lettin' no grass grow under his feet neither. I been talkin' to old wooden head here about the railroad comin' in. Tom's eyes twinkled. His friend guessed that he was trying to get a rise out of the old-timer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's sure some mossback. I been tellin' him the railroad's comin' through here an' Meeker right soon, but he can't see it. I reckon the toot of an engine would scare him 'most to death." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't get excited about that railroad, son, drawled the former hard-rock driller, chewing his cud equably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I rode a horse to death fifteen years ago to beat the choo-choo train in here, an' I notice it ain't arriv yet." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "June!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, you silly boy! As if--as if it matters why you were stunned. You were. That's enough. I'm so glad--so glad you're not hurt. It's 'most a miracle. He might have killed you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What matters is that when I called you came, she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You weren't afraid then, were you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hadn't time. That's why. I just jumped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. The expression in her soft eyes was veiled, like autumn fires in the hills blazing through mists." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You just jumped to help me. You forgot he carried two forty-fives and would use them, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he admitted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon if I'd thought of that--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "T-Texas man, she squeaked, stuttering a little in mimicry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose image are you m-made in?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got over all the world?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dominion, ma'am, but not over all of it, I reckon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right smart of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have yore own way. I know you will anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' what are you a little lower than?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a heap lower than one angel I know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're no such thing. You're as good as any one--and better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wouldn't say better," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trouble with you is you're so meek, she stormed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You let anybody run it over you till they go too far. What's the use of crying your own goods down? Tell the world you're Bob Dillon and for it to watch your dust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want me to brag an' strut like Jake Houck?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No-o, not like that. But Blister's right. You've got to know your worth. When you're sure of it you don't have to tell other people about it. They know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tha's correct," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is my red haid high enough now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Bob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I got over all the world?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dominion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Over all of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I--don't--know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have your own way, she replied, trying feebly to escape an emotional climax by repeating the words he had used." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know you will anyhow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Say it, then. Every teeny bit of it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every teeny bit of it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That means June Tolliver too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "June Dillon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You precious lamb!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Must be close to him, one said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got the makin's, Jim?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure. Evidently the tobacco pouch was passed from one to the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right in these rocks somewhere, I shouldn't wonder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbeso. Mebbe still hot-footin' it for the hills. He's in one heluva hurry if you ask me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Killed Bob Dillon in the park, I heard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he did he'll sure hang for it, after what Dillon did for him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right. You got me. Go to it, you red devils," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon you're right glad to see me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not dumb, are you? Speak up, some of you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man-with-loud-tongue die. He kill Indian--give him no chance. Indians kill him now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure I killed him. He'd stolen my horse, hadn't he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Black Arrow my son. You kill him. He take your horse mebbe. You take Ute horse. He pointed to the pinto." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ute kill Man-with-loud-tongue." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Black Arrow reached for his gun. I had to shoot. It was an even break." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is Man-with-loud-tongue a yellow coyote? Does he carry the heart of a squaw? Will he cry like a pappoose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who told you I was yellow? Where did you get that? I ain't scared of all the damned Utes that ever came outa hell." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Onload it, he jeered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm no squaw. Shoot it at me. Jake Houck ain't scared." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man-with-loud-tongue claim this horse. Utes give it him. Horse his. Man-with-loud-tongue satisfied then maybe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you aimin' to do, you red devils?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My wife!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sorry?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know whether I am. Oh, June girl, I didn't know it would be like this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor I, Bob." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't know. Looks kinda queer. It's got some sort of harness on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bob, it's a man." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a Ute pony," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better go back to the road, June, her husband advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's too late to do anything for this poor fellow." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who was it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jake Houck, he told her gravely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Utes did it--because he killed Black Arrow, I reckon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll go on now, he said gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come back later with your father." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll not let that spoil the day, will you, June? He had it coming, you know. Houck had gone bad. If it hadn't been the Utes, it would have been the law a little later." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but-- She tried to answer his smile, not very successfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's rather--awful, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's walk over to the cabin, dear." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guess! Guess what!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon I done guessed, honeybug," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're to come and live with us. Isn't he, Bob?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You be good to her or I'll--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sure will," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's the one ought to worry, Dad. I'm the flyaway on this team." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm worryin' a heap," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Marthe," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hear that?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go to the Woods," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, mother, says he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will not go for nought." }, { "from": "human", "value": "SHE SENT HIM TO MARKET, A LIVE GOOSE HE BOUGHT." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's very rude of him, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To come and spoil the fun!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this were only cleared away, They said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That they could get it clear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Oysters, come and walk with us! The Walrus did beseech." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The time has come, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But wait a bit, the Oysters cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No hurry!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A loaf of bread, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was so kind of you to come! And you are very nice! The Carpenter said nothing but" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cut us another slice: I wish you were not quite so deaf-- I've had to ask you twice!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems a shame, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To play them such a trick, After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick! The Carpenter said nothing but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The butter's spread too thick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I weep for you, the Walrus said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I deeply sympathize." }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Oysters, said the Carpenter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go round, With your horse and your hound, For you never shall leap over my gate." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE WAS AN OWL LIVED IN AN OAK." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll shoot you, silly bird, So Fiddle, Faddle, Feedle!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DICKERY, DICKERY, DARE." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going a-milking, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're kindly welcome, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your father, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My father's a farmer, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My face is my fortune, sir, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody asked you, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "OLD MOTHER HUBBARD WENT TO THE CUPBOARD." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE DAME MADE A CURTSEY, THE DOG MADE A BOW." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your servant, The Dog said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bow wow." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a good boy am I!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all should keep to time and place, And all should keep to rule, Both waves upon the sandy shore, And little boys at school." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "JENNY BLUSHED BEHIND HER FAN." } ]