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34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, Frank?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Jack, I don't know what I shall do with my little Frieda when you have gone home to England!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you will both be coming over soon,"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may not be able to come for several months. In the meantime if she frets herself ill?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not to worry too much on my account, Frieda dear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not supposed to be unselfish,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you'll have a baby some day yourself, dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should be happier than anything! Remember you and Henry are to come to us as soon as it can be arranged."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, he explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do not intend to be ungrateful, indeed I am more grateful than I know how to express. But those stories of India started me to thinking of the first years I was out there. It is a strange country, India. I don't think we western people understand it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do understand what you must feel and I do wish there was something else to interest you."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Captain MacDonnell, didn't I hear Frank say once that you used to be fond of drawing when you were a small boy, that you were once undecided whether to be an artist or a soldier?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe so, I've an idea I was a pretty conceited youngster and would have made as much of a failure at one as I have of the other."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do wish you would undertake the drawing again, it might at least amuse you, and there are so many interesting people and scenes you could attempt out here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid the time has gone by for that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, there wouldn't be any harm in just seeing if it might amuse you, she went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure it would be a kind of relief."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it will, a relief to you, so for that reason I'll attempt it. But on one condition?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the condition? she inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course it will be relief to me to know you are happier,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, that I won't have to keep on calling you Miss Van Mater. It is too much of a name, just as mine is."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I will. The truth is I have always thought of you as Bryan, as Jack and Frank always talked of you by this name."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you say it is good? he demanded boyishly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know I've half an idea it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's like Remington."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not quite. Still I am getting on. But it seems to me you are neglecting me lately. I say, suppose you pose for me. That would be ripping. You won't be sensitive if I don't make much of a go just at first."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know how I'll ever be able to thank you for making me so lovely? I don't mind being handed down to posterity in such a delightfully untruthful picture,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it's untruthful enough, Captain MacDonnell answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is well you came in just when you did, as I was thinking of making an end of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I shouldn't have forgiven you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is what I was afraid of, that and that you would not be willing to sit for me again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you must get hold of someone more attractive than I am for the next portrait. After a while, as you are so much better, you'll be wanting to go back to London to work seriously. You know you have promised me that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he returned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't mean that I did not promise, I only mean that I shall probably not keep my word. I think I shall give up and allow myself to become a kind of good for nothing, half invalid, as soon as I am separated from you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I pose for you again today?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Olive!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can hardly imagine anything you haven't the right to say to me, Bryan. You often talk of your gratitude for what I have done for you. But I wonder if you know what you have done for me? I have never had so kind a friend except Jack. It is always difficult for me to think of her as Lady Kent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I am not your friend, Bryan returned brusquely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any more disqualifications, Bryan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, a great many, Captain MacDonnell returned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what has Jack to do with what you wish to say to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, she has nothing at all to do with it now, Captain MacDonnell returned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only once upon a time before I met you, I used to think Lady Jack was the most attractive woman I had ever known. I used also to believe that as long as Frank had gotten ahead of me I never wished to marry. But I suppose the real fact was that I wanted one of what Lady Jack told me you called yourselves? The Ranch Girls, wasn't it? Only I had not seen the real one in those days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, Bryan, you need not think I ever forget you are an Irishman, Olive laughed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet I think I like your flattery."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "UNDER TWO FLAGS"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been taking a long walk, Jack, trying to get rid of my restlessness and to make the time pass more swiftly. I wish you had been with me. But how beautiful your place is! I don't see how you have managed to keep things in such splendid condition with so many of your men at the front. I have been talking to some real English dairymaids down in the left paddock. They made me think of the stories and nursery rhymes we used to read when we were children. Then England seemed as far away from the old Wyoming ranch as the planet Mars. However, I am the last one of the Ranch Girls to visit you in England. Ralph's work has made our coming to you impossible before and now the war has brought us to this side of the world, for how long none of us can say. Have you heard anything from Frieda?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish Frieda had not gone to London today. Suppose something happens and she is not back in time for our dinner! Then everything will be disarranged. We cannot have our dinner party tomorrow, for by that time we will have separated again. Tomorrows are uncertain quantities these days, aren't they?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Frieda will be here on time; I don't think we need worry. You see, she is to go to his office and get hold of the Professor, else, Frieda says, if he chances to be especially interested in his work, he will forget all about our plan, and of course to have one of the eight of us missing tonight would ruin everything. Again Jack glanced about her dinner table, which was laid for eight covers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still, I think Frieda does Henry an injustice, for, in spite of the absorbing scientific work he is doing, he is far less absent-minded than he used to be. And I never saw a more attentive husband. Since Frieda's baby came I believe he regards her as more wonderful than ever."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am glad Frieda has your old nurse for her baby, Jack, and is living here with you, for I cannot take her seriously as a mother, never having been able to realize thoroughly that she is properly and sedately married. However, we at least have our guests of honor safe."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just from a selfish standpoint you can't imagine what it will mean to have Olive living so near me. I have so missed my family!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At present there is not much danger of your missing your family for some time to come, dear. You and Frank will probably grow exceedingly tired of them. Now I must go upstairs to rest for a while myself. I don't wish to have Ralph decide tonight that he is the least fortunate of the four husbands."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came out early, Jack, dear, in order to do honor to your party and I managed to corral the two other husbands, Ralph and the Professor, so there need be no delay. It is good to be at home now and then."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would like to give a dinner party every night, Frank, if I thought it would bring you home. Are things going well?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, thank goodness you got hold of Frieda! Jean has been worrying for fear Frieda would get lost in London and not come back in time. Years ago, when we first came to Europe, Frieda had a tiresome fashion of disappearing and getting us all into a dreadful state of mind for fear she might be permanently lost. Then she usually turned up quite blandly with some agreeable person who had discovered her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, Jack dear, Frank interrupted, as soon as his wife gave him the opportunity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frieda did not come home with us. Indeed, neither the Professor nor I had any idea except that she was with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, I do wish Frieda would come in! What do you suppose could have happened to her, Frank? She only went into London to attend to some mysterious errand which she insisted was very important. I know she would not have stayed so late unless something unavoidable had kept her. Besides our party, she has never been away from her baby so long."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Frieda will turn up all right. The good fates have her in charge."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know, Jack, I am unable for some reason to find Frieda. She is not in her bedroom and not in the nursery. Nurse is unable to give me any information concerning her, save that she left early in the day for London. Curious that she did not telephone me. Will you please find her for me? She gave me certain instructions about dressing for dinner tonight, which, as a matter of fact, I have forgotten. Am I to wear an evening or a dinner coat?"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Henry dear, do let me have two pounds, won't you, at once. I know it is dreadful to be so extravagant, but so many things have happened to me! I had to wait and wait for the things I just had to have for tonight and then I missed the last train. I wasn't going to spoil our dinner party and so I took a taxi the entire way out from London. I know the cabby is robbing me, but he did come very fast and I haven't a great deal of my own money left."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is my adored baby, Jack? I have nearly died being separated from her such hours! Don't worry, I'll be ready in time for dinner."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do hope, Bryan, you and Olive are going to stay on at home for a time now you are safely here, Lord Kent remarked, stretching himself lazily in a great arm chair and glancing with an admiration he made no effort to conceal from his wife to Olive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jack more or less needs some one to look after her, since I am giving so much time to my war work I am having to neglect my family."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I shall be at home the greater part of the time, and Bryan whenever it is possible for him, Olive answered quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Bryan has already promised to begin _camouflage_ work for the government within the next few days. We were not in London very long, but were there long enough to see a few of Bryan's old friends. They asked him if he would not have his commission transferred to the camouflage corps, as they needed him at once. I suppose he will be able to do some of the painting here in England. But later Bryan will probably have to go over to France to find out what is required of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bully, Bryan! I had not thought of that,"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frieda says if you will be kind enough to wait dinner for her a few moments, she will be with you almost at once. There was some little errand, some little commission she still wished to attend to before we leave the library."
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To our international marriages! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Long may they wave!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to our great American Ally!"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I move, announced the Professor gravely,"
}
]
|
34927 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "changed to"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am Findley Holbrook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad to see you, Findley, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you're going to like the school and that the school will like you. We've assigned you to Gannett Hall; I'll have one of the masters take you over and introduce you to the boys who've already come. We don't do much to-day except get settled. Did you bring your things?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father is going to bring them up this noon, Findley replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought I'd better come early to start in with the other fellows."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Teeny-bits!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Teeny-bits was the name by which Findley Holbrook had been known ever since he could remember and to hear himself thus addressed brought to him a momentarily pleasant feeling, even though Tracey Campbell had never been a special friend of his. When Findley was younger he had been so small that some one had called him"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teeny-bits"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friends, he said in the stagey sort of voice that a person might use in talking to an audience,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me introduce myself, said the tall boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm Bassett, the Western Whirlwind, manager of Terrible Turner, the fighting bear-cat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is Terrible Turner himself, said Bassett, laying his hand on the shoulder of a pug-nosed lad whose freckled face wore a queer look of combined insolence and friendliness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the honor of the school he will wrestle you to test your mettle--he's a wrestler from way-back. Do you accept the challenge?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to wrestle in these clothes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take off your coat, then; we consider it an insult to the whole school if you don't accept the challenge. Are you afraid of Terrible Turner? He's no bigger than you are."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friends, let me introduce you to Teeny-bits, the quitter."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't wrestle with Turner, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's younger than I am. I'll wrestle with you."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and wouldn't wrestle any"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold him off, Teeny-bits!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't let him get you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trip him up!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fighting in the dormitory! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's all this about? And then he saw Bassett just rising weakly to a sitting posture and observed the other boys slapping Teeny-bits on the back. He gazed in doubt from one to the other and then said to the diminutive conqueror:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you put this big lummux down?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bet he did!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you did a mighty good job, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're new here, but a lot of these other fellows are not, and they know as well as I do that we're not supposed to fight or have wrestling matches in the dormitories. Get on your feet there, Bassett, and mind your own business hereafter. I know well enough that you started this. You got just what you deserved, didn't you!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must be a whale of a scrapper for your size--and I'm mighty glad you gave that fresh-mouthed Bassett a good lesson. But don't get into any more trouble with him. You know we have a sort of self-government here, and we can't be smashing up things in the dormitory. I room downstairs in Number 26. Come in sometime soon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I'd hit the floor as hard as Bassett did, I'd bet my backbone would have been broken into forty pieces, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, what a pippin of a thump!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of the fellows call me Terrible Turner, you know--that was just some bunk that Bassett invented. They all call me Snubby--on account of my nose, I guess."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and advised them to"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beware of Teeny-bits! Holbrook is not his name! He's ashamed to tell the truth!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was on the bulletin board, said Snubby to Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lot of the fellows wonder what the dickens it means."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a good friend of mine, Snubby, said Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bassett tags around after him like a tame sheep--I don't like either one of them,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An unknown Mother. Died August 9th. 1903."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll make Hamburger steak out of you! warned Snubby Turner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd better not do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good night, Teeny-bits! do you want to commit suicide! said Fred Harper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll hang a wreath on your door."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's as slippery as an eel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so small you can't see him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep it up, he said;"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good work, Teeny-bits! You're the original bear-cat all right."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a peculiar mark you have on the back of your shoulder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a sort of birthmark, I guess, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My trademark."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to see that knife-thing on your back that I heard the fellows talking about, said Snubby frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come over under the light so I can get a good look. That _is_ queer--the hilt of the knife is curved a little just the same on both sides. It looks to me as if somebody had drawn it on your back--only the color doesn't look like a tattoo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just a freak of nature, said Teeny-bits with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I was born with it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It rolls off him like water off a roof! exclaimed Fred Harper, who was one of the newcomer's greatest admirers. And so it seemed, for Teeny-bits went about his work methodically and seemed entirely unimpressed by the attentions of his numerous followers. He made time to do his studying and did it well, but he was not what his classmates called a"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Bassett, putting on a look of extreme intelligence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that all you can tell me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no! said Bassett with the manner of one whose knowledge has been underrated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was quite a figure in his time and he wrote a lot of stuff--I think it was----poetry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's enough, Bassett, said Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holbrook, can you tell me anything about Walter Pater?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I can't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, said Mr. Stevens."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd rather have an honest answer than an attempt to bluff!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't try to bluff, sir, he said to Mr. Stevens, but the English master paid no attention to the denial and every one knew that the self-styled"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whirlwind"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now, it does seem nice to see you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your Ma and I've been kind o' lonesome, and she allowed as how I ought to pay you a mite of a call. I said as how she ought to come too, but I couldn't budge her. She said wimmen folks weren't wanted around boardin' schools."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's great to see you, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fellows here have been wonderful, but of course it isn't home, you know, and I've missed you folks a lot. I wish Ma _had_ come; you tell her not to be so bashful next time."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose wimmin folks _are_ a trifle more timid than men folks about putting themselves forred, he remarked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not on your life! said Teeny-bits fervently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not breaking any rules, and believe me, whatever it is, it won't last very long. I've some friends around here who would climb right through the transom if they knew that there was anything like that in this room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That being the case, said the station master,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so much better than I thought it would be, said Teeny-bits,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoa, Ebeneezer! said Campbell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Calm yourself, And then an idea came to his mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's a chance for a little moonlight ride, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who'll come along? We'll borrow this old nag for a few minutes and tour the campus."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, we're off,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some racer! said Bassett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you get any more speed out of him than that? I'll show you how to drive him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you won't, said Campbell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can get as much speed out of him as anybody can. I'll bet you that if you'll get out and run, I can beat you round the campus."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much'll you bet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I'll bet you a good dinner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready, get set, go!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, you bucking bronco!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You win, he yelled to Bassett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll buy the dinner."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of your friends seem to be playing a few pranks on me."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just borrowed this animule of yours for a minute. He's some _racer_, I'll say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll say to you, young man, said Daniel Holbrook,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's blowin' and puffin' _a mite_, but I guess he ain't injured none, and I reckon as how he'll pull through the crisis and amble you home if you drive real calm."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you speak to my father I want you"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Campbell, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No damage done, I guess, said the station master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like to see young fellows misusing animals, but I suppose it was just a bit of high jinks, so we'll forget all about it."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first team isn't getting enough competition, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You fellows on the scrub go to sleep and take a nap every afternoon; you don't play the game with any heart; every time you see one of the first-string backs charging through your line, you act as if you thought you were a party of snails on a railroad track trying to tackle an express train. There's nothing to be afraid of; if any of you expect to be advanced to the first squad you'd better begin to acquire a little ambition. We have a hard game Saturday with Wilton; I want to see you chaps come back to life to-day and show me whether you are candidates for a team or for a grave-yard."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good work! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You got me clean."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teeny-bits, said the coach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to pull you up to the first squad; you may not get a chance to play in many of the games, but I think I can use you as a substitute back. That was a good tackle you made and a good run, but you have a lot to learn yet. One thing is change of pace when you carry the ball. If you sprint the way you do in a track dash, the men against you have a good target for a swift tackle, but if you keep something in reserve and turn it on just as you're about to be tackled, you'll do better. Watch Durant; you can learn a lot from him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're always springing surprises, aren't you, Teeny-bits? said the big half-back with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't think you had so much speed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe I could do it again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you could, declared the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coach just told me you're to join our squad. I'm glad; I'm counting on you to do big things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at his side. Aloud he said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to try like thunder!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shared an inclination for lurid neckties, fancy socks and striped silk shirts; they believed themselves wise as to the ways of the world, and each had been heard to express the opinion that Ridgley School was a"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had moved from his modest home in the town and had built a pretentious house on a hillock two miles to the west. Those of the townspeople who had been inside"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "declared that every chair and every picture on the wall was screaming aloud,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He got rich quick! He got rich quick!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is it? demanded Campbell, and slipped the catch when he heard Bassett's voice. As soon as the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whirlwind"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They slipped something over on you, didn't they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can you expect? was Campbell's reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can tell you this--if I don't get a fair show pretty quick, I'm going to quit--and I'll not only quit playing football, but I'll say good-by for a lifetime to Ridgley School. I'm not going to be the goat much longer--you can bet your gold pieces on that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd have been on the first team already if it hadn't been for Teeny-bits,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some day I'm going to show that fellow up, said Campbell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It makes me sick the way the whole crowd falls for him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well you watch and see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got any plan?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have--one that will work this time."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shift"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty-seven, sixteen, eleven,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you dropped that ball, said Durant, joining Teeny-bits as the substitute half-back was walking off the field;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It _was_ lucky, admitted the candidate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it was a hard tackle, said Durant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't blame you for dropping the ball."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Dad, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't know he was coming to the game."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, son! he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought maybe you'd play, so I came to see the game."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your ma, Teeny-bits, wants you should come down for Sunday dinner to-morrow, said the station master,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be mighty glad to come--if Teeny-bits wants me to, said Durant, and Teeny-bits looked at him with such a queer expression of surprise and pleasure that Neil added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You didn't expect me to refuse an invitation like that, did you?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, cap'n, old scout, Ned Stillson was saying, as Teeny-bits came clamping in,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we'll have to fight, said Mr. Stevens, who sat at the head of Teeny-bits' table,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do hope you two are good and hungry, she said, after Teeny-bits had introduced Neil."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll sit right down and keep sittin' till we're full."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "on each plate and passed it to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ma"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never saw anything look so good in my life, said Neil, and a moment later he added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or taste so good, either."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land of Goshen! Ma suddenly exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I forgot to bring on the conserve!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't beat it anywhere in _this_ world,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know when I've had such a good Sunday, and as for the dinner--I could talk a week about it."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "pictures and to eat from plates that were lavishly decorated in the best style of the shops that cater to the tastes of those persons whose family crest is the dollar sign. Bassett thought it was"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you two are great friends, she said to Bassett."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every one likes Tracey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, we go around together a lot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And are you as athletic as Tracey is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see, I've got flat feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're on the first team now, I suppose, Tracey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Tracey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why? demanded his mother, raising her shrill voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You told me two weeks ago that the coach was going to promote you. What happened, will you tell me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're not giving Tracey a fair show, Mrs. Campbell, declared Bassett."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The coach has a few favorites and he can't see _anything_ that any one else does."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to see Doctor Wells about it! she declared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a condition is perfectly shameful! Why, it's--it's----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, mother, don't do anything like that, warned Tracey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd only spoil what chances I've got."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if they can't treat you fairly, I'd rather have you leave the school. Your father will have something to say about this when he comes home. I don't doubt that he'll go right up there and make them stand around a bit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the time he gets home I'll be on the team,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's where I feed you the dinner I owe you,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you really want to give him a good jolt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why not try my plan? I know it will work."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are a good many likely-looking fellows in this school who have never tried for the football team, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's late in the season, but there's a chance for them now on the scrub and, if they show any real ability, an opportunity with the team. We've got to do our best to beat Jefferson this year and we can't afford to overlook good material even now, so if you want to show your school spirit come down to the field this afternoon."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep it up, Snubby, said Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're putting life into the scrub."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I'll come up to your room to-night, will you give me a few pointers about running with the ball?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come up right after supper and we'll talk for half an hour; then I'll have to study,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What in the name of mud is the matter, Snubby?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you suppose there's any one in this school mean enough to steal? asked Turner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I went down to football practice to-day I left my gold watch and a purse with twelve dollars in it in the top drawer of my chiffonier. They're both gone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you sure?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am, declared Snubby."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Absolutely sure."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the idea? he had said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you come in the front door like a human being?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd as soon suspect my own father as Jerry! said Snubby Turner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have an idea, Jerry, said Snubby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know some one's been getting away with a lot of valuable truck from the fellows' rooms. It would be an awfully clever stunt to catch him. Why don't you snoop around and find out who it is?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's ijeers and ijeers, said Jerry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I got my ijeers too. I ain't got no need to snoop around. I got eyes an' ears as are uncommon good, even though I been usin' the same ones for nigh on to seventy year. I got my own ijeers as to who's sneak-thieving this school and bime-by somebody's goin' to get ketched."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What _are_ your ideas? asked Snubby."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know who's doing it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got eyes an' ears, said the old man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How foolish it is for any of us to believe that we can commit a wrong and escape the penalty merely because no one sees us, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every evil deed leaves its heaviest mark not on the _victim_ of it but on the misguided person who performs it. Once in a while something happens at our school that proves anew that old, old truth."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I liked best, he said on the way back,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll bet Neil Durant can stop him,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can if _any one_ can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I used to know Norris; we used to go to a day school in Washington together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did! exclaimed Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was he like?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was four or five years ago and we were young kids, but I remember that Norris was gritty as the dickens; he used to play quarter-back then; of course he's developed a lot since those days."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Reliable of the team. Neil Durant and Ned Stillson were better at running with the ball and played perhaps more brilliantly, but White was steady and sure. His team-mates called him"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two of you fellows help White over to the locker building and 'phone for Doctor Peters to come down with his car,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let some one else do that, Teeny-bits. I want you out on the field."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three or four weeks ago, Teeny-bits, said the coach,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I looked upon you as an interesting possibility for the team next year. Now you've landed on the eleven, and I'm sure you can make good. You're quick and you've got a good eye for plays, but I want you to make up your mind that you are going to show us something that you never thought you had in you. I have an idea for a surprise play that I'm going to build around you. It may prove to be pretty important in the game with Jefferson. I want you to work on change of pace and shifting direction. Neil has both better than you have, and we'll depend on him and Ned to carry the ball a good part of the time; then if we can trust you to do the rest, things will look hopeful as far as our offense goes."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you get down there in the middle of the field, Teeny-bits, and try to pass Neil and me. See what you can do to keep us guessing and when you use your straight arm remember to throw your hips; don't stand up stiff like a wooden Indian target."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you could have seen some movie pictures of one of the college games that I saw last year, said Coach Murray."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It showed better than any talk could show just what I mean by change of pace. The back that made the greatest gains of any man on the field had an uncanny way of eluding tacklers. The films showed how he did it. Again and again he slowed down just before the opposing tackle reached him--when they were running the film slowly it looked almost as if he stopped--and then, when the tackler leaped forward to bring him down, that shifty runner would slip around like a fox leaping away from a dog, and on he would go, leaving the tackler sprawling on the ground. Now try it again!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're getting it great, said Neil Durant, as they walked back to the campus together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The coach is wonderful on helping a fellow; and you can always be sure that what he says is exactly right. When he was in college he made the All-American team two years in succession."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on the hillock. After the game with Dale he approached Neil Durant and invited the captain to be his guest. He did not say that he was acting under orders from his father. The elder Campbell was ambitious for his son to be prominent, as befitted the scion of a man who had made a million. He had written a letter to Tracey that week in which he had devoted two pages to advice in the matter of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's one lesson you've got to learn right now--the lesson of politics. Every big man knows how to use his friends to help him along. Don't let the other fellow beat you out by getting the inside course. Get the _jump_ on him. Now this football business is just like any other business--you've got to use friends. I want you to ask that Durant fellow home over the week-end. He must have influence with the coach. Bring some others too, if you want to."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old man wants me to bring some one home with me this week-end, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you want to come? Thought we could go to a show in Greensboro and to-morrow we'll tour around in the car."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's mighty good of you to ask me, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorry. Some other time will be just as good."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't be _too_ modest, Tracey, declared Mrs. Campbell in her shrill voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take the credit that's _due_ you. I suppose this means you've won the letter that you talk so much about."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know about as much football as a porcupine, Ma! exclaimed Tracey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fellow has to play in the Jefferson game to get his R."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well I'm glad you've proved that you've got the goods, declared Campbell, senior."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you do as well in the big game I might be favorable toward giving you that racy runabout you've been nagging me to buy you."
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want Teeny-bits,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here he is!"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to tell you, he said,"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Findley Holbrook-- and then, as if for good measure, he added his nickname--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Teeny-bits."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's up?"
}
]
|
30985 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's nothing, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just--I'm--I was coming back from the mass meeting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, Teeny-bits?"
}
]
|
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