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29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O, Mrs. Kinzer, do you think they are in any danger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope not. I don't see why they need be, unless they try to return across the bay against this wind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But don't you think they'll try? Do you mean they wont be home to-night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sincerely hope not, said the widow, calmly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should hardly feel like trusting Dabney out in the boat again if he should do so foolish a thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But where can he stay?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At anchor, somewhere, or on the island. Almost anywhere but tacking on the bay. He'd be really safer out at sea than trying to get home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Out at sea!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jus' de t'ing for a handsome young feller like Dick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wot for'd an ole woman like me want to put on any sech fool finery. He's de bestest boy in de worl', he is. Dat is, onless dar aint not'in' happened to 'im."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow from"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was anxious not to get too far from shore, for there was no telling what sort of weather might be coming. It was curious, too, what very remarkable luck they had, or rather, Ford and Dick; for Dab would not leave the tiller a moment. Splendid fellows were those blue-fish, and work it was to pull in the heaviest of them. That's just the sort of weather they bite best in; but it is not often such young fishermen venture to take advantage of it. Only the stanchest and best-seasoned old salts of Montauk or New London would have felt altogether at home, that afternoon, in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't fish any more, said Dabney, at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've caught ten times as many as we ever thought of catching. Whoppers, too, some of 'em."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Biggest fishing ever I did,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or mos' anybody else out dis yer way, added Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I isn't 'shamed to show dem fish anywhar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more I aint, said Dab;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dat's so, said Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I's awful hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow seemed to be putting forth her very best qualities as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No immediate danger, apparently; but there was one"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, said Dabney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, we're not, replied Ford, confidently;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That isn't land, Ford; that's only a fog-bank, and we shall be all in the dark in ten minutes. The wind is changing, too, and I hardly know where we are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at your compass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That tells me the wind is changing a little, and it's going down; but I wouldn't dare to run toward the shore in a fog and in the night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? Don't you remember those breakers? Would you like to be blown through them, and not see where you were going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Ford."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I rather guess I wouldn't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jest you let Capt'in Kinzer handle dis yer boat, almost crustily, interposed Dick Lee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's de on'y feller on board dat un'erstands nagivation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shouldn't wonder if you're right, said Ford, good humoredly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At all events I sha'n't interfere. But, Dab, what do you mean to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swing a lantern at the mast-head and sail right along. You and Dick get a nap, by and by, if you can. I wont try to sleep till daylight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep! Catch me sleeping!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must, and so must Dick, when the time comes. Wont do to get all worn out together. Who'd handle the boat?"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't expect everything to suit me, he said to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now I hope we sha'n't run down anybody. Hullo! Isn't that a red light, though the haze, yonder?"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A white light, close aboard, on the windward bow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aint it a big thing, Ford, that you know French. I mean to study it as soon as we get home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's as easy as eating. Shall I tell 'em we've got some fish?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course. Sell 'em the whole cargo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sell them? Why not make them a present?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may need the money to get home with. They're a splendid lot. Enough for the whole cabin full."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dat's a fack. Capt'in Dab Kinzer's de man for me, he is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How much then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty-five dollars for the lot. They're worth it. 'Specially if we lose Ham's boat."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow could run along so nicely under the stern of the great steamer, while a large basket was swung out at the end of a long, slender spar, with a pulley to lower and raise it. Even the boys from Long Island were astonished at the number and size of the prime, freshly caught blue-fish to which they were treating the passengers of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prudhomme,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo, the boat! What are you following us for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, we wont run you down. Don't be alarmed. We've lost our way out here, and we're going to follow you in. Hope you know where you are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is grand for us, remarked Dab Kinzer to Ford, as he kept his eyes on the after-lantern of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prudhomme."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They pay all our pilot fees."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they're going to New York."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So are we, if to-morrow doesn't come out clear and with a good wind to go home by."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's better than crossing the Atlantic in the dark, anyhow. But what a price we got for those fish!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're ready to pay well for such things at the end of the voyage, said Dab."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expected they'd try and beat us down a peg. They generally do. We only got about fair market price, after all, only we got rid of our whole catch at one sale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow followed the steamer, and the fog followed them both so densely that sometimes even Dick Lee's keen eyes could with difficulty make out the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prudhomme's light. And now Ford Foster ventured to take a bit of a nap, so sure did he feel that all the danger was over, and that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Kinzer was equal to what Dick Lee called the"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe she's run ashore!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's an hour to sunrise, said Dab to Ford, after the latter had managed to comprehend the situation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may as well run further in and see what we can see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "had struck, and to hear Ford Foster sing out:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we'd known you meant to run in here, we'd have followed some other pilot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're in no danger at all, said Dab."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If their own boats don't take 'em all ashore, the coast-wreckers will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Government life-savers, I s'pose you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, they're all along here, everywhere. Hark! there goes the distress gun. Bang away! It sounds a good deal more mad than scared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Kinzer"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right now, said Dab."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew they wouldn't be long in coming. Let's find where we are."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In fact, said Ford Foster,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The train you was wrecked in, said Dab,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me, your're inclined to be inquisitive, Dab,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo, Jersey, what are you doing with two grapnels? Is that boat of yours balky?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind your eye, youngster. They're both mine, I reckon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You might sell me one cheap, continued Dab,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jersey wrecker had"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "those two anchors, one time and another, and had no objection at all to talking"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten cents! Let you have it for fifty dollars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it gold, or only silver gilt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pure gold, my boy, but seein' it's you, I'll say ten dollars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take your pay in clams?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, hush, I haint no time to gabble. Mebbe I'll git a job here, 'round this yer wreck. If you want the grapn'l, what'll you gimme?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Five dollars, gold, take it or leave it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It jes' takes Capt'in Kinzer!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prudhomme"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo, you! was the greeting which now came to his ears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go ashore in my boat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not till I have eaten some of your fish for breakfast, replied Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Dabney Kinzer, of 'most anywhere on Long Island. What's yours?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frank Harley, of Rangoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I declare! almost shouted Ford Foster,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, to Mr. Hart's, and then to Grantley, to school."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it. Well, you just come along with us, then. Get your kit out of your state-room. We can send over to the city for the rest of your baggage after it gets in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Along with you, where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To my father's house, instead of ashore among those wreckers and hotel-people. The captain'll tell you it's all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prudhomme ashore, and all"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "were a little out of joint by reason of that circumstance. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow lay at anchor while Frank got his breakfast, and such of his baggage as was not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and, meantime, Captain Kinzer and his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean to sail home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? If we could do it in the night and in a storm, we surely can in a day of such splendid weather as is coming. The wind's all right too, what there is of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but even Dab forgot, for the moment, that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow would go further and faster before a gale than she was likely to with the comparatively mild southerly breeze which was blowing. He was by no means likely to get home by dinner-time. As for danger, there would be absolutely none, unless the weather should again become stormy, which was not at all probable at that season. And so, with genuine boyish confidence in boys, after some further conversation over the rail, Frank Harley went on board the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll have her off in less'n a week, said Ford to Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father'll know just what to do about your baggage, and so forth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ford, you've had your nap. Wake up Dick there, and let him take his turn at the tiller. The sea's as smooth as a lake, and I believe I'll go to sleep for an hour or so. You and Frank keep watch while Dick steers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "now, on board the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow, and Ford's only reply was:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you haven't earned a good nap, then nobody has."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at him, said Ford Foster to Frank Harley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what he's made of. He's been at that tiller for twenty-three hours, by the watch, in all sorts of weather, and never budged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't make that kind of boy in India,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's de best feller you ebber seen, added Dick Lee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I's jes' proud of 'im, I is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sort of boy, mourned Annie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Annie, exclaimed her mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ford is a good boy, and he does not run into mischief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't mean Ford; I meant that Dabney Kinzer. I wish we'd never seen him, or his sail-boat either."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Annie, said her father, reprovingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a light, coming in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And a boat under it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ham's boat carried a light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll bet it's her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it isn't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold on and see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for in three minutes more the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow swept gracefully in with the tide, and the voice of Dab Kinzer shouted merrily:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home again! Here we are!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must be it's Dab!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mother, said Annie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They wouldn't cheer like that, my dear, if anything had happened,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Kinzer"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frank Harley! exclaimed Mr. Foster,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've heard of you, certainly, but how did you--boys, I don't understand----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, father, it's all right! We took Frank off the French steamer after she ran ashore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ran ashore?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; down the Jersey coast. We got in company with her in the fog, after the storm. That was yesterday evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down the Jersey coast! Do you mean you've been out at sea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father; and I'd go again, with Dab Kinzer for captain. Do you know, father, he never left the rudder of the 'Swallow' from the moment we started until seven o'clock this morning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You owe him your lives! almost shouted Mr. Foster; and Ford added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, we do."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Kinzer, I've been saying dreadful things about you, but I beg pardon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be entirely satisfied, Miss Annie, returned Dabney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eat! exclaimed Mrs. Kinzer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, the poor fellows! Of course they're hungry."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bill Lee, does you mean for to say as dem boys run down de French steamah in dat ar' boat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dat, not zackly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A regular nipper, thought Dick Kelsey, standing in a door-way, kicking his feet in toeless boots to warm them, and blowing his chilled fingers, for in the pockets of his ragged trousers the keen air had stiffened them. He was revolving a weighty question in his mind. Which should he do,--go down to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ma'am Vesey's"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll toss up for it!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a happy land Far, far away, Where saints in glory stand Bright, bright as day!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whew! That was purty, anyhow. Where is the piper, I wonder!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, there! Was it you pipin' away so fine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you mean, was I a-singin'?--I was,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, who are you, anyhow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm Gerty, and I stay here all the day while mother is away washing; and she locks the door so no one can't get in,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My eye! was Dick's return."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what are you in bed for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I have a pain in my back, an' I lie down most of the time,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, got anything to eat in there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, some crackers; and to-night maybe mother'll buy some milk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! said Dick, with scorn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crackers and milk! Did you ever eat a mutton pie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A mutton pie, repeated Gerty, slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I guess not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, they're bully! Hot from Ma'am Vesey's! Tip-top! Wait a minute,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gi'e me one, quick! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hot, too. No, I wont eat it; put it in some paper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me we're gettin' mighty fine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never you mind, old lady,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I never in all my life tasted anything half so good! Don't you want some?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, indeed! --this with hearty emphasis."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've had 'em. I'm goin' now, he added, reluctantly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do! said Gerty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My eye!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, them's hard lines, anyhow, he soliloquized, as he went to the printing-office."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' she's chipper, too. Game as anything, he went on to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, I'm just goin' to keep my eye on that little un, and some o' my spare coppers'll help her, I guess."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More'n any night this week, he pondered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did me good to go 'thout the pie. Gerty'll have an orange to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The biggest, best orange you got, and never mind what it costs."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! you're come, are you? joyfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother said you wouldn't, when I told her, but I said you would. She wouldn't leave the door unlocked, cos she didn't know nothing about you; but she said, if you came to-day, you could come back to-night when she was home, and come in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, may I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, went on Gerty;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll sing lots, if you want; and mother'll be glad to see you, too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right; mebbe I'll come. And say, here's suthin for ye,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my! she gasped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Dick answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, eat it now."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now shall I sing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, responded Dick,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Happy Land came"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to be an angel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Little drops of water,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you sing 'Mulligan Guards'?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Gerty, perplexed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They didn't sing that up to the horspital."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mebbe they don't sing it to the horspital; but I've heard 'em sing it bully to the circus. I say, he went on suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Gerty, eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do they do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's beautiful! was Dick's answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All bright, you know, and warm, and the wimmin is dressed awful fine, and the men, too; and the horses prance around; and they have music and tumbling, and--oh, lots of things!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My! and you've been there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I've been! Then, as he watched her sparkling eyes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, I'll take you. I could carry you, you know, and we'd go early, and I'd put you up against a post, and----Don't you want to go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want to go? she repeated with rapture."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's too good to be true! I was scared just a-thinkin' of it. Oh, if mother'd let me an' I could! Wouldn't I be too heavy? Mother says I'm light as a feather,--and I wouldn't weigh more'n I could help,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never you mind, was Dick's hearty reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll come to-night and see the old lady,--your mother, I mean,--and we'll go next week, if she'll let you."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four days,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pooh! was Dick's comment as he lifted her in his arms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like a baby, aint you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm so glad you don't think I'm heavy! It's the first time I ever was glad to be thin,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wasn't it lovely? whispered Gerty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not half,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've seen 'Happy Land';"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go every week to the circus, Gerty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Dick, said the child, quietly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never go there again. But oh! 't'll be suthin better!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Gerty! sobbed Dick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Happy Land!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He! he! Farmer Lee, When I fly from my tree, Just you see where the tops Of the corn-ears will be Watch me! He! he!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me-oh! me-oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only thing it can swallow, poor little dear, is a little milk and arrowroot, and the doctor says unless it can have this it must die."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me-oh! me-oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Warm!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho, ho; nobody can do that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what's a microphone?"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think it possible a mouse can be in the piano?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no! he said;"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That piano must be fixed."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "they refer to them as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, in these days, he adds,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are no railroads in China worth mentioning, so traveling has to be done by highroad, or by river and canal; and, as this last, though easy, is a very slow way, it is a good thing when, like the snail, a traveler can take his house with him."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SOLD."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letter-Box, an account of a turtle; so I thought I would tell you about"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gopher Jimmy. My uncle brought him from Florida. He is a gopher, and different from the common kind of turtle. His back is yellow, with black ridges on it. His feet are yellow and scaly. Gophers burrow in the ground; and, when full grown, a man cannot pull one out of its burrow, and a child can ride easily on its back. I feed mine on clover. He likes to bask in the sun. My uncle named him"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gopher Jimmy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tyrian purple,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tyrian purple --a color that never fades by washing, or exposure to heat or damp, but ever grows brighter and clearer! The naturalist was rejoiced, and after trial found that he really had discovered again the long-lost secret. He felt well repaid for keeping his eyes open. The little shell was the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as some call it, some three inches long, found in the Mediterranean Sea, and on the coasts of France, Ireland and Great Britain. My book says that the difficulty of obtaining and preserving these shells must always render"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tyrian purple"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tyrian purple"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letter-Box for May, 1877 (Vol. IV., page 509), in a reply to an inquiry from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Julia."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Bear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wheel, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chariot. The Phoenician pilots called it, sometimes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Parrosis, the Indicator, the Rule, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Callisto, the Deliverance, the Safety of Sailors. But it was more commonly named"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doubé, signifying the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doubé signified also to the Phoenicians a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and the Greeks are supposed to have received and used the word in its wrong sense, and to have passed it down to us without correction. This explanation seems plausible to me; and now, whenever I see the star-group we call the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dipper, I think how gladly it was hailed by poor storm-tossed sailors upon the narrow seas, in the early ages, before the"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wackie, because when she cries she goes"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wackie, wackie, wackie!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "INLAND"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunty True, one of the real folks, and a confirmed Grahamite. The next in age was Helen Chapman, the head and front of the quartette; a good botanist and geologist, and acquainted with all manner of things that live in the sea, and from her we had delightful object lessons fresh from Nature. Next came I, and then Jo, the youngest of us, a girl of fifteen, ready to run wild on the least excuse. She was fairly quelled and awe-struck, however, at her first sight of the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll never get me to go into that!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lady"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Island of Juan Fernandez,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robinson Crusoe. This leaves you at an arch-way bearing the curious inscription:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A mimic island of Juan Fernandez, the abode of Robinson Crusoe, dear to the heart of childhood, and a reminder of our days of innocence."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How few of these French boys and girls really know old Crusoe and his adventures! To them this charming place has nothing whatever to do with running away to sea, shipwrecks, cannibals, mutinies, and such things. It is nothing but a new kind of pleasure-ground to them."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nice always. I can talk French now a little, enough to be understood. I go to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Promenade des Anglais"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, we have only to pick up the morning paper, and consult"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Probabilities, who nearly always forecasts truly. But in those times there were no telegraph wires running the length and breadth of the land, and no Signal Service, either, so that the regular cry of the watchman may have been held in high esteem; and, perhaps, the sleepy folk would raise an ear from the pillow to hear the"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Past four o'clock, Cornwallis is taken!"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Hundred Christmas Presents,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heroes of History,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The letters of this word, when transposed once, give"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the second blank, and, transposed again,"
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ANNIVERSARY PUZZLES.--Three anniversaries: 1. Fourth of July; J is a fourth part of the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "July. 2. First of May; M is the first letter of the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make hay while the sun shines."
}
]
|
29983 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allie, Milly E. Adams, Maude Adams, George J. Fiske, Jeanie A. Christie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fannie, Edward Vultee,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aimée, Estella Lohmeyer, Bertha Keferstein, Willie B. Deas,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Winnie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vulcan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Nicholas Club, Chas. Carhart,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Patrolman Gilhooley, Harry Price, Frankie Price, M. W. C.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prebo,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cozy Club, E. S. G., M. H. G.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lillian, Gertrude H., Bessie G., Georgie B., Adèle F. Freeman, Nessie E. Stevens, Minnie Thiebaud, Eleanor P. Hughes, Ella Blanke, Kittie Blanke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessie and her Cousin, Alice Robinson, C. S. King, Wm. H. McGee, Adèle G. D., E. F. T., Nettie Kabrick, Debe D. Moore, Neils E. Hansen, Isabel Lauck,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O. K., Alfred Terry Barnes, Florence Wilcox, Francis H. Earp, Imogene M. Wood, Horace F. W., Rowen S. McClure, Julia Crofton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The P. L. C., S. Norris Knapp,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "K. Y. Z.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nameless, W. C. Eichelberger, John Cress, Daisy Briggs, Romeo Friganzi De Plonzies De Flon, G. P. Dravo, Marshall B. Clarke, Mary L. Fenimore, Bessie H. Jones, Samuel Hoyt Brady, Edith McKeever, R. Townsend McKeever, Annie L. Volkmar, E. Gilchrist, H. B. Ayers, S. A. Gregory, Virgie Gregory,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Caprice, Lewis G. Davis, Charles Fritts, Frances Hunter, Ray T. French, Nellie Zimmerman, Kittie Tuers, Etta Taylor, Guardie Kimball, Lulu Loomis, W. A. Ricker, Florence R. Swain, Nellie Baker, Gracie Van Wagenen, Rosie Van Wagenen, C. B. Murray, Gertrude Cheever, Albert T. Emery, Florence Van Rensselaer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hard and Tough, Nellie Emerson, Hans Oehme, Paul Oehme, C. N. Cogswell, Louisa Blake, W. H. Patten, Clara F. Allen, Caroline Howard, Helen Jackson, Ethel S. Mason, Helen S. Rodenstein, Harry Durand, Charles H. Stout, Sarah Duffield, Constance Grand-Pierre,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince Arthur, Madeleine Boniville, K. Beddle, Georgine C. Schnitzspahn, Mamie Robbins, C. L. S. Tingley, A. M. Holz,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Black Prince, J. R. Garfield, Anna E. Mathewson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adrienne, Grace A. Smith, M. H. Bradley, Gladys H. Wilkinson, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Gilpin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aimée, Estella Lohmeyer, Bertha Keferstein,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vulcan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patrolman Gilhooley, Chas. H. Stout, M. W. C.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cozy Club, R. M., Nessie E. Stevens, Minnie Thiebaud, Eleanor P. Hughes, Ella Blanke, Kittie Blanke,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessie and her Cousin, Adèle G. D., Horace F. W., S. Norris Knapp, W. C. Eichelberger, John Cress, Romeo Friganzi De Plonzies De Flon, Samuel Hoyt Brady, Eddie K. Earle, R. Townsend McKeever, Nettie F. Mack,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Caprice, C. Maud Olney, Frances Hunter, Charles Fritts, Harvey E. Mason, Lulu B. Monroe, Nellie Baker, Nellie Emerson, Caroline Howard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Diaconos,"
}
]
|
981407 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a gallant lady."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alton of Somasco,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come Down!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll shoot me before she means to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you a trifle late?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your letter to hand, and so long as you have a good time don't worry about the bills. You'll find another five hundred dollars at the bank when you want them. Thank God, I can give my daughter what her mother should have had. Two years since I've seen my little girl, and now it seems that somebody else is wanting her! Well, we were made men and women, and if you had been meant to live alone dabbling in music you wouldn't have been given your mother's face. Now, I don't often express myself this way, but I've had a letter from Captain Jackson Cheyne, U. S. Cavalry, which reads as straight as I've found the man to be. Nothing wrong with that family, and they've dollars to spare; but if you like the man I can put down two for every one of his. Well, I might write a good deal, but you're too much like your father to be taken in. You want dollars and station, and I can see you get them, but in a contract of this kind the man is everything. Make quite sure you're getting the right one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dear old man! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very like him; but whether Jake is the right one or not is just what I can't decide."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry! said the girl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, whatever are you doing here?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came in on business a day or two ago, said the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ran round to check some packages. I'm going back again to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said the girl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was in the city, and came here to meet Flo Schuyler and her sister. They'll be in at four."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That gives us 'most fifteen minutes, but it's not going to be enough. We'll lose none of it. What about the singing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry, she said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father told me a little; but I haven't seen him so often of late. Any way, I would sooner you told me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, said the girl, with the faintest of quivers in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is just what they can't do, he said decisively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You sing most divinely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a good deal you and the boys at Cedar don't know, Larry. Any way, lots of people sing better than I do, but I should be angry with you if I thought you were pleased."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That would hurt. I'm sorry for you, Hetty; but again I'm glad. Now there's nothing to keep you in the city, you'll come back to us. You belong to the prairie, and it's a better place than this."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't quite know, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is always one thing left to most of us."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, the trouble is that there are very few of us good enough for you. But you will come back for a little?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are they getting along at the Range?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doesn't your father write you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the girl, colouring a trifle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a letter from him a few days ago, but he seldom mentioned what he was doing, and I want you to tell me about him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you used to be always at the Range."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, I don't go there so often now. The Range is lonesome when you are away."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said;"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now get some more oranges, and begin right at the top of the line, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If that doesn't see you through, come back to me for another bill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chicago, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, said the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are the cars coming in. Just out of Castle Garden, and it's because of the city improvements disorganizing traffic they're bringing them this way. They're the advance guard, you see, and there are more of them coming."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do they come every week like this and, even in our big country, have we got room for all of them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the biggest and greatest country this old world has ever seen, and the Lord made it as a home for the poor--the folks they've no food or use for back yonder; and, while there are short-sighted fools who would close the door, we take them in, outcast and hopeless, and put new heart in them. In a few short years we make them men and useful citizens, the equal of any on this earth--Americans!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of it isn't very nice, and they don't live on canvas-backs, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, it seems to me that other men have talked like that quite a thousand years ago; and, while I don't know anyone better at breaking a broncho or cutting out a steer, straightening these affairs out is too big a contract for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, but I can do a little in the place I belong to, and the change is beginning there. Is it good for this country that one man should get rich feeding his cattle on leagues of prairie where a hundred families could make a living growing wheat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, said the girl drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know why you and my father haven't got on. Your opinions wouldn't please him, Larry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said the man, with a trace of embarrassment,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think they would; and that's just why we've got to convince him and the others that what we want to do is for the good of the country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's going to be hard. No man wants to believe anything is good when he sees it will take quite a pile of dollars out of his pocket."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come along, Larry, and I'll show you two of the nicest girls you ever met,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They would have been nicer if they hadn't come quite so soon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry Grant of Fremont Ranch, said Miss Torrance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry is a great friend of mine."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't keep them waiting, but you'll come and see me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going home to-morrow, said the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When are you coming, Hetty?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't quite know. Just now I fancy I may not come at all, but you will not forget me, Larry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he said, and there was a little tremor in his voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think I shall forget you. Well, if ever you grow tired of the cities you will remember the lonely folks who are longing to have you home again back there on the prairie."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have my work, he said,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand up, Hetty. I want to look at you,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will I pass?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're pretty enough to please anybody, and there's a style about you that makes it quite plain you were of some importance out there on the prairie. Now you can sit down again, because I want to talk to you. Who's Larry Grant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me what you think of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never quite knew what the cattle-barons were, except that your father's one, and they're mostly rich,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think Larry's very rich. They're the men or the sons of them, who went west when the prairie belonged to the Indians and the Blackfeet, Crows, and Crees made them lots of trouble. Still, they held the land they settled on, and covered it with cattle, until the Government gave it to them, 'most as much as you could ride across in a day, to each big rancher."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gave it to them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lease of it. It means the same thing. A few of them, though I think it wasn't quite permitted, bought other leases in, and out there a cattle-baron is a bigger man than a railroad king. You see, he makes the law--all there is--as well as supports the industry, for there's not a sheriff in the country dares question him. The cattle-boys are his retainers, and we've a squadron of them at the Range. They'd do just what Torrance of Cedar told them, whatever it was, and there are few men who could ride with them in the U. S. Cavalry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said Flora Schuyler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she said drily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess they would, but no government dares meddle with us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Flora Schuyler,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I called him my partner when I was home. Larry held me on my first pony, and has done 'most whatever I wanted him ever since. Fremont isn't very far from the Range, and when I wanted to ride anywhere, or to have a new horse broken, Larry was handy."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It always seemed to me, my dear, that an arrangement of that kind is a little rough on the man, and I think this one is too good to spoil,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is all right with Larry. He never expected anything."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No? said Flora Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He never tried to make love to you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only once, and I scarcely think he meant it. It was quite a long while ago, and I told him he must never do it again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And since then he has tamed your horses, and bought you all the latest songs and books--good editions in English art bindings. It was Larry who sent you those flowers when we could scarcely get one?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you get things of that kind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When they come too often I send them back, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I know I'm careless now and then, but one has to do the square thing, and I wouldn't let any man do all that for me unless I was so fond of him that I meant to marry him. Now I'm going to talk quite straight to you, Hetty. You'll have to give up Larry by and by, but if you find that's going to hurt you, send the other man away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't understand, and there was a little flash in Hetty's dark eyes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry's kind to everyone--he can't help it; but he doesn't want me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear, we don't want to quarrel, but you'll be careful--to please me. Jake Cheyne is coming, and you might be sorry ever after if you made a mistake to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Cheyne!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if it would be too great a liberty if I asked Miss Torrance to give us some music, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going away to-morrow to a desolate outpost in New Mexico, and it will be the last time for months that I shall have a treat of that kind."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wouldn't it be nicer as it is?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know what that is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jake knows everything!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the man quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A nocturne. You were thinking of something when you played it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sea, said Flora Schuyler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Miss Torrance, who afterwards wondered whether it would have made a great difference if she had not chosen that nocturne."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the prairie when the stars are coming out over Cedar Range. Then it seems bigger and more solemn than the sea. I can see it now, wide and grey and shadowy, and so still that you feel afraid to hear yourself breathing, with the last smoky flush burning on its northern rim. Now, you may laugh at me, for you couldn't understand. When you have been born there, you always love the prairie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be different this time."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know the march, but the composer never wrote what you have played to-night, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was--may mine be defended from it!--the shuffle of beaten men. How could you have felt what you put into the music?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your men could never march like that. It was footsteps going west, and I could not have originated their dragging beat. I have heard it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said Hetty,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Flora Schuyler,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't quite know, and until to-night it always cheated me. I got it at the depot--no, I didn't. It was there I felt the marching, and Larry brought the prairie back to me; but I couldn't have seen what was in the last music, because it hasn't happened yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to every one of us, said Cheyne, with a curious graveness they afterwards remembered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is, the stress and strain--it is the triumph at the end of it only the few attain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, she said, and her voice, at least, had in it the twang of the country,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty, he said quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you know why I have come to-night?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so sorry!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be too hasty, Hetty, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would not ask you for very much just now, but I had ventured to fancy you could in time grow fond of me. I know I should have waited, but I am going away to-morrow, and I only want you to give me a promise to take away with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel horribly mean, Jake, but I can't, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought to have made you realize that long ago, but I liked you, and, you see, I didn't quite know. I thought if I waited a little I might be more sure of what I felt for you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said the man, a trifle hoarsely,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said, with a little tremble in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You always speak the truth, Hetty. My dear, knowing what the best of us are, I wonder how I dared to venture to ask you to share your life with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you understand? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The girl who sang to you now and then isn't me. I am selfish, discontented, and shallow, and if you hadn't heard me sing or play you would never have thought of me. There are people who sing divinely, and are--you see, I have met them with the mask off--just horrible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hetty, said Cheyne,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't allow anyone to malign you, even if it's yourself, and if you have any faults, my dear, I'll take them with the rest. In fact, I would be glad of one or two. They would only bring you a little nearer to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jake, she said appealingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going away to-morrow, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You might think differently when I come back again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have to be straightforward now, and I know you will try to make it easier for me, even if I'm hurting you. It's no use. I shall think the same, and by and by you'll get over this fancy, and wonder what you ever saw in me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid it will take me a lifetime,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He took it very well--and I shall never find anyone half so nice again,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Reginald Clavering, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's from the prairie where Miss Torrance's father lives, and is staying a day or two with us. When I heard he knew Hetty I ventured to bring him over."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was only an hour ago I found we were so near, and I insisted upon coming across at once, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have changed a good deal since you left the prairie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the girl drily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it very astonishing? You see, we don't spend half our time on horseback here. You didn't expect to find me a sharp-tongued Amazon still?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said languidly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, said the girl, with a trace of acerbity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You command it, and I must try to make amends. Now, don't you want to hear about your father and the Range?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a talk with Larry to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In New York?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. At the depot. He is going back to-morrow. You seem astonished?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, it's Chicago he usually goes to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Usually? said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I scarcely remember him leaving Fremont once in three years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he leaves it a good deal more often now. A man must have a little diversion when he lives as we do, and no doubt Larry feels lonely. You are here, and Heloise Durand has gone away."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I scarcely think you need have been jealous of him, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry wasn't Miss Durand's kind, and he couldn't be lonely. Everybody was fond of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! Still, Larry hasn't quite so many friends lately."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, said Hetty with a little flash in her eyes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ploughing! said Clavering drily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did what I could to restrain him, but nobody ever could argue with Larry."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, that's not going to happen while your father lives."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're not here to talk wheat and cattle, and I see Flo Schuyler looking at us, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go across and make yourself agreeable to the others for the honour of the prairie."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you sent Jake away!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Hetty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know what made me, but I felt I had to. I almost meant to take him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it wasn't because of that man Clavering?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was not, said Hetty, with a little laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you like him? He is rather a famous man back there on the prairie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think he's that kind of man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Miss Schuyler."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't take him at face value. The silver's all on top. I don't know what is underneath it, and would sooner somebody else found out."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's time we got down to work, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sent for ten of you, and eight have come. One sent valid excuses, and one made no answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry Grant, said Clavering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess he was too busy at the depot bringing a fat Dutchman and a crowd of hard-faced Dakota ploughboys in."
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're quite sure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Clavering languidly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw him, and bantered him a little on his prepossessing friends. Asked him why, when he was at it, he didn't go to Manitoba for Canadians. Larry didn't take it nicely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, said one of the older men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry is one of us, and the last man I'd figure on committing that kind of meanness would be the son of Fremont Grant. Quite sure it's not a fit of temper? You have not been worrying him, Torrance?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grant of Fremont was my best friend, and when he died I 'most brought the lad up as a son. When he got hold of his foolish notions it hurt me considerably, and I did what I could to talk him out of them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You put it a little too straight, and he told you something that riled you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He did, said Torrance grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, for 'most two years I kept a curb on my temper. Then one evening I told him he had to choose right then between his fancies and me. I could have no dealings with any man who talked as he did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember any of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Torrance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His father's friends were standing in the way of progress. Land that would feed a thousand families was keeping us in luxury no American was entitled to. This was going to be the poor man's country, and the plough was bound to come!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it had been any one else, we could have put our thumb on him right now, said one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, I don't quite figure it would work with Larry. There are too many folks who would stand in with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buy him off, he said tentatively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have laid out a few thousand dollars in that way before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Larry may be foolish, but he's one of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, said somebody,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better tell them, Allonby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lease has fallen in, and the Bureau will not renew it, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to moan about my wrongs, but some of you know what it cost me to break in that place of mine. You have lived on the bitter water and the saleratus bread, but none of you has seen his wife die for the want of the few things he couldn't give her, as I did. I gave the nation my two boys when the good times came, and they're dead--buried in their uniform both of them--and now, when I'd laid out my last dollar on the ranch, that the one girl I've left me might have something when I'd gone, the Government will take it away from me. Gentlemen, is it my duty to sit down quietly?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The land's not open to location. I guess they're afraid of us, and Allonby's there on toleration yet, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gentlemen, we mean to keep him just where he is, because when he pulls out we will have to go too. But this thing has to be done quietly. When the official machinery moves down here it's because we pull the strings, and we have got to have the law upon our side as far as we can. Well, that's going to cost us money, and we want a campaign fund. I'll give Allonby a cheque for five hundred dollars in the meanwhile, if he'll be treasurer; but as we may all be fixed as he is presently, we'll want a good deal more before we're through. Who will follow me?"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fact is, dollars are rather tight with me just now, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll have to wait a little if I'm to do as much as the rest of you. I am, however, quite willing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll lend you them, said Torrance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allonby, I'll make that cheque a thousand. You have got it down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now it seems to me that Torrance is right, and with our leases expired or running out, we're all in the same tight place, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The first move is to get every man holding cattle land from here to the barren country to stand in, and then, one way or another, we'll freeze out the homesteaders. Well, then, we'll constitute ourselves a committee, with Torrance as head executive, and as we want to know just what the others are doing, my notion is that he should start off to-morrow and ride round the country. If there are any organizations ready, it might suit us to affiliate with them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me, sir, that the first question is, 'Could we depend upon the boys if we wanted them?'"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ride them down,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grow feathers on them, said another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ride them back to the railroad on a rail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I scarcely think that would be necessary, said Torrance quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, you'd stand behind the men who pay you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've heard them, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, we'll do just what you want us to. This is the cattle-baron's country, and we're here. It's good enough for us, and if it means lots of trouble we're going to stay here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll be quite as good as their word,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want a constitution, gentlemen, and I'll give you one, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cedar District Stockraisers' Committee incorporated to-day with for sole object the defence of our rights as American citizens!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If necessary against any unlawful encroachments made by the legislature!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By whatever means may appear expedient!"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't light on you earlier, but ten minutes will see us through, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll make a half-page of it if you'll let me have your views. New epoch in the country's history! The small farmer the coming king! A wood-cut of the man who brought the first plough in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are quite a few ahead of me, and if you spread my views the barons would put their thumb on you and squeeze you flat, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the other hand, it wouldn't suit me if you sent them anything I told you to publish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The rights of the Press are sacred in a free country, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Grant drily,"
}
]
|
27115 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Grant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Muller?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ja, said the other man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Also der fräulein Muller."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Dutchman, said somebody,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dot, he said,"
}
]
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