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19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing for us to do, said Spencer despairingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's awful! answered Wood;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where on earth have the Japanese ships come from? I thought their whole fleet was stationed in the Pacific. Not one of their ships has ever come around Cape Horn or through the Straits of Magellan; if they had, our cruisers off the Argentine coast would have seen them. And besides it would be utter madness to send just two battleships to the Atlantic. But where else can they have come from?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's no use asking where they come from, cried Wood excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send all the tugs out to sea immediately. Have them hoist the ambulance-flag and try to rescue the men of the transports."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you, Spencer, he continued,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now they're even shooting at the ambulance flag,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and on board this Glasgow steamer, the _Kirkwall_, the bill of sale was signed on July 14th, by the terms of which the"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you take command of the Seventh Company as captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know, you were at Elandslaagte and afterwards at Cronstadt, were you not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We need some officers like you who can keep their men together when under fire. Do you accept or not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly, but----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have no buts."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mellin's Food"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be an air-ship!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It evidently is; it's moving!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Japanese air-ship has been sighted over the mountains."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spread the report at once!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What shall we do? asked a lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's no use in shooting at it; by the time it gets within range we should shoot our own men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They can see our whole position! said Captain Lange,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That probably won't do much good."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall never reach it with shrapnel, said the lieutenant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have some newly constructed shrapnel, answered the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those seem to be the balloon-guns,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're getting our air-ship ready over there, cried the captain;"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a big bomb, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they keep on like that they'll only hit our own men,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Jap is ascending,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Japs are throwing down everything they've got in the way of explosives,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All over, said the lieutenant with a sigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a shame! We might just as well have done that ourselves."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I wounded? he asked of the ambulance soldier beside him. The latter pointed to the doctor, who said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will soon be all right again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where am I wounded?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the right thigh,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In case there is no Japanese attack on August 15th, the Tenth Brigade under General Lawrence is to retain its present positions until the attack of our center----"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gin a body, meet a body, Comin' thro' the rye,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gin a body, meet a body, Comin' thro' the rye."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you hear something, captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, where?"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An air-ship!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop the fire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop! It is our own balloon!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it's a Japanese one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cut that out. You're shooting at us!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop firing!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shell the houses on both sides of the street leading into Hilgard! Shell the houses on both sides of the street leading into Hilgard--Shell--Hilgard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No shells, I might have known it, only those everlasting shrapnels. How on earth can I shoot a town to pieces with shrapnel!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send two hundred shells immediately by automobile from Union to the 8th Battery Volunteers stationed before Hilgard, ordered the general through the telephone--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, there aren't any shells at Union? The last have been forwarded to Longworth's Division?-- But I must have at least a hundred; have them brought back at once from the right wing-- No automobile, either?"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A shell"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An explosive shell! shouted Captain Lange,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain! called a weak voice from the bottom of the trench,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Lange, I'm wounded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my legs, groaned Singley. Two soldiers took hold of him and placed him with his back against the wall of earth. The lower part of both his thighs had been smashed by pieces from the shell."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you please do me a last service?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course, Singley, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please take my kodak!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, it is set at one twentieth of a second. Now please take my picture-- Thank you, that's all right! And now you can have me removed to the hospital!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aim carefully, fire slowly!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aim carefully, fire slowly!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aim carefully, fire slowly,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think all this is on account of the Philippines?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Philippines? Not much. It would have come sooner or later anyhow. The Japs want the whole Pacific to themselves. We wouldn't be here if it were only for the Philippines."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We wouldn't? It's on account of imperialism, then, is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk foolish. We know very well what the Japs want, imperialism or no imperialism."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, why are the papers always talking so much about imperialism?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They write from their own standpoint. Imperialism simply means that we wish to rule wherever the Stars and Stripes are waving."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are, Benting, said the colonel,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shut up, you cowards!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Colonel Johnson?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over there, on the other side of the street."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A prisoner?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess not, they're not making prisoners and we aren't either."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, sir, he cried, his face beaming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must be a wizard! cried the General, and then seizing the instrument he called:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throw all the troops you can possibly get hold of against the right wing of the Japanese in front of us! The enemy's position is weakened, but we can't attack the ridge in the front from here."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aim up there to the left, near the two detached pine-trees, six hundred yards,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The two pines to the left,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are things in front?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine, fine, we're winning!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing, sonny?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ringing the bells for mother,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General, called a weak voice from the corner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, are you wounded?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel that I'm dying, was the answer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll send you a doctor, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't bother, general; it wouldn't do any good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you get here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My husband, came the answer in a weak voice,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She paused a moment, and then continued with growing agitation:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's enough to make one lose faith in the wisdom of the Lord to see this butchery--all the heartrending sorrow that's created in the world when men begin to murder one another like this. You don't realize it in the midst of the battle, but here-- And as God has seen fit to spare His church in the battle, I asked the boy to ring the bells once more, for I thought it might be a comfort to some of those dying out there to hear a voice from above proclaiming peace after these awful days. Let him keep on ringing, general, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I help you in any way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, only I should like some water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will become of my boy? My poor husband----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My good woman, said the captain, forcing himself to speak bluntly,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colonel, how can you desert your regiment?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have the honor to report that only these two, Dan Woodlark and Abraham Bent, are left of my regiment. They are brave men, general, and I herewith recommend them for promotion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me, he said simply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not intend to hurt your feelings."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! cried the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll begin over again, general, we'll simply start all over again. As long as we don't lose faith in ourselves, nothing is lost."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another Japanese loan, he cried,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will Great Britain do in case of war? the Japanese is said to have asked, whereupon he received the ambiguous answer:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her duty. Then, with the daring candor assumed by these people when they feel that they are masters of the situation, the Japanese had declared:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The London government must bear in mind that the continuation of British rule in India depends absolutely on the wishes of Japan; that England, in other words, can support the United States only at the price of an Indian insurrection."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They must either lower their flag and disarm, or they must leave the harbor!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll drive the yellow monkeys into the Pacific."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to whom was given power"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another Patriotic Swindle."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Murder, murder, yelled the mob,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God, they've strung him up on a lamp-post!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, Edith, I haven't been scratched."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you'll be killed the next time,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It makes but little difference, Edith, whether I die here on the pavement or out yonder on the battle-field: we must all die at our posts if need be. Death may come to us any day here as well as there, but, and freeing himself from his wife's embrace, he walked to his desk and pointed to a picture of Abraham Lincoln hanging over it, saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One minute, was the answer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, he said to his wife,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His appearance at the window was a signal for loud cheers from the people on the street. Holding the hand of his faithful wife in his own, he said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Edith, I know we are on the right road. We can read our destiny only in the stars on our banner. There is only one future for the United States, only one, that beneath the Stars and Stripes, and not a single star must be missing--neither that of Washington, nor that of Oregon, nor that of California. We had a hard fight to establish our independence, and the inheritance of our fathers we must ever cherish as sacred and inviolable. The yellow men have won their place in the world by an inexorable sense of national duty, and we can conquer them only if we employ the same weapons. I know what we have at stake in this war, and I am quite ready to answer to myself and to our people for each life lost on the field of battle. I am only one of many, and if I fall, it will be in the knowledge that I have done my duty. Let the cowardly mob step over my corpse, it won't matter to me nor to my successor if he will only hold our drooping flag with a firm hand. The favor of the people is here to-day and gone to-morrow, and we must not be led astray by it. The blind creatures who inspired that miserable wretch to hurl the bomb regard us, the bearers of responsible posts, with the same feelings as the lions do their tamer when he enters the cage. If he comes out alive, well and good; if he is torn to pieces it makes no difference, for there'll be some one else to take his place the next day. It is my duty to fight against desertion in our own ranks and to shield American citizenship against the foreign elements gathered here who have no fatherland, and to whom the Stars and Stripes have no deeper meaning than a piece of cloth; that is the duty, in the performance of which I shall live or die."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Star Spangled Banner came floating up from thousands of throats. Suddenly his wife touched his arm saying:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James, here's a telegram."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will deliver us from the dark slough of despair."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellow Citizens, began the secretary,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have just this moment received--"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Star Spangled Banner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a day, said the secretary, taking his wife's hand,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must ask Your Excellency's pardon for having kept you waiting, said the secretary, advancing a few steps to meet him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To what do I owe the honor of this visit----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come to reply to the protest lodged against us by the United States government for permitting the Japanese to use the harbor of Esquimault as a station for their ships. The British government fully recognizes the justice of the protest, and will see to it that in future only damages that affect a ship's seaworthiness are repaired at Esquimault, and that no other ships are allowed to enter the harbor. The British government is desirous of observing the strictest neutrality and is determined to employ every means in its power to maintain it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thank Your Excellency and thoroughly appreciate the efforts of your government, but regret exceedingly that they are made somewhat late in the day. I am convinced the English government would not consider it within the bounds of strict neutrality for a Japanese squadron to employ an English port as its base of operations----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly not, said the ambassador emphatically,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed? answered the secretary seriously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no instructions with regard to this case. It really comes as a great surprise to me, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and then seizing the secretary's hand he shook it heartily, saying:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allow me to extend my private but most sincere congratulations on this success of your arms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Your Excellency. The United States have learned during the past few months to distinguish between correct and friendly relations with other powers. The English government has taken a warm interest in the military successes of its Japanese ally, as is apparently stipulated in their agreement. We are sorry to have been obliged to upset some of England's calculations by turning Japanese ships out of an English harbor. If we succeed in gaining the upper hand, we may perhaps look forward to similar favors being shown us by the English government as have thus far been extended to victorious Japan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That would depend, said the ambassador rather dubiously,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our last reserves, said the President, looking at the map;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he glanced at his secretary and saw that the latter was utterly exhausted. And no wonder, for he hadn't slept a wink in three nights."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go and take a nap, Johnson, said the President;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll stay up, as I have some work to finish. Take a nap, Johnson, I don't need you just now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about the instrument, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can hear everything in the next room. I'll have no peace anyhow till it is all over. Besides, the Secretary of War is coming over, so I'll get along all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, Harry, said the President, pointing to a chair,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be ready in five minutes."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take these with you, they are all signed. Tomorrow morning--oh, I forgot, it's morning now--the ninth of February."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harry, he said in a low voice,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A message arrived from Fort Bridger about ten o'clock, said the President after a long pause,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it may mean--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose it's all in vain again, suppose the enemy--"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they can only hold Georgetown, said the Secretary of War,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God grant they may."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went through just such hours as these, he said quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we have need of men, but we have men, too, some perhaps who are even greater than Lincoln."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, we've done everything we could, we've done our duty, yet perhaps we might have made even greater efforts. I'm so nervous over the outcome of this battle; it seems to me we are facing the enemy without weapons, or at best with very blunt ones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You better go and see what it is, Harry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fort Bridger, Feb. 8, 11.50 p.m. From Fisher's division the report comes via Bell's Pass that two of his regiments have driven the enemy from their positions with the aid of searchlights, and that they are now in hot pursuit. MAJOR GENERAL ILLING."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't make much difference what happens at Georgetown, the decision rests right here now and the next hour may decide it all, and he put his finger on the spot in the mountains occupied by the enemy's left wing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If an attack on the enemy's front should make a gap----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Harry, he said,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MAJOR GENERAL ILLING."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harry! cried the President, seizing his friend's hand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does, it must, was the answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, he said, as he rearranged the blocks on the map,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the entrenchments in the dark? broke in the President,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fate of battles rests in the hands of God; we must have faith in our troops."
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry, he said, looking up,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fort Bridger, Feb. 9, 2.36 a.m. With enormous losses the brigades of Lennox and Malmberg have stormed the positions occupied by the artillery on the enemy's left wing, and have captured numerous guns. The thunder of cannon coming from the valley can be distinctly heard here on the heights. Fisher's division has signaled that they have successfully driven back the enemy. The Japanese are beginning to retreat all along the line. Our troops----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry, this hour is greater than the Fourth of July. And now, Harry, I remember it, that song of the German poet; may it become our prayer of thanksgiving:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From tower to tower let the bells be rung, Throughout our land let our joy be sung! Light every beacon far and near, To show that God hath helped us here! Praise be to God on High!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harry, he called presently,"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run as hard as you can and call out on all the streets: The enemy is defeated, our troops have conquered, the Japanese army is in full retreat! Knock at the doors and windows and shout into every home: we have won, the enemy is retreating."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Victory, victory, we've beaten the Japs!"
}
]
|
19498 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave your carriage here, shouted the President,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't, Harry; I couldn't listen to another word now, but please rouse everybody in the house."
}
]
|
644836 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Mr. Kemp tauntingly,"
}
]
|
537137 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you know about it?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ROGUE ELEPHANT XVIII A LINK FROM THE PAST XIX FRIENDS IN NEED XX THE SMOKE READER XXI THE CHUMS RESCUED BY AEROPLANE XXII LUTHER BARR'S TRICK XXIII ABOARD"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE BRIGAND"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Harry, catch hold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ouch--I dropped that cartridge box on my pet corn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, you fellows, are we going to Africa or are we on a Coney Island picnic?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be serious now, Billy Barnes, you may be all right as a reporter, but as a shipping clerk you're no more good than a cold storage egg."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I'm doing the best I can, was the indignant reply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To tie up a certain young reporter named William Barnes when he gets too fresh,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Special Staff Correspondent, William Barnes,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Camp Outfit,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Medical,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Armory Chest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grub Chest,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go easy, carry lots of quinine, don't waste ammunition, and count ten before you pick a quarrel with a native,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, is this going to be a hunting trip or an invasion of Africa? inquired Billy, quizzically as Harry sorted out and Frank read off ceaselessly the apparently interminable inventory of the supplies of the Chester party."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm getting writer's cramp."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's so, assented Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, if we have enough gasoline, assented Harry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just enough for our purposes and no more, replied Frank, readily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then we can count on every gallon we carry being of triple efficiency?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read it out, Harry, he said, handing the missive to his brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It concerns all of us."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LATHROP EASLEY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what do you know about that? gasped Billy Barnes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It certainly is curious,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can Lathrop mean? Who is Luther Barr? I have heard the name but I cannot place him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lathrop says he is an ivory importer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy to find out, said the resourceful Billy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the 'phone book?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah--here we are, exclaimed Billy, as he ran his finger triumphantly down the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B list."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barr, Luther--that's our man, eh? Ivory importer, offices No. 42 Wall Street--home, White Plains."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White Plains, that's where Lathrop's folks live, exclaimed Harry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's where he first became associated with the Golden Eagle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And turned out to be a good partner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A jim dandy, agreed Billy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you boys, I've got a good nose for news and if there isn't some sort of a story back of Mr. Luther Barr and Lathrop's letter I'll eat my hat without sauce."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you the fare's a dollar!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben Stubbs,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sergeant will settle our dispute,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the trouble, Ben?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, this here piratical craft,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Back my topsails if it ain't you, Frank, he cried, wringing the other's hands till the boy's arms were almost dislocated."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you too, Harry, and keel haul me ef here ain't Billy too. Well, if it ain't good to see, you Chester boys again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, are you the Chester Boys--the Boy Aviators?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are, replied Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, well, said the chauffeur,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does that thing work backwards?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not often, replied Billy with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess that chap reads the papers and thought it wouldn't do him any good to try to fool a particular friend of the Boy Aviators."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, boys, what are your plans?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hardly know now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wherever that boy is there's bound to be doings, remarked Ben, sententiously, when the young leader had finished."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down in Florida when he wasn't tumbling into alligators' mouths or getting bit by serpents he was allers up to some mischief--you mark my words there's something in the wind now."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you please send this card up to Mr. Beasley's rooms and tell him that the visitors he was expecting are here?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think that Mr. Beasley can see you now, call later,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you going to send that card up at once or shall I call the room on the telephone?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you are the Chester boys? he exclaimed with a strong accent on the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon for keeping you waiting, I'm sure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, having your name in the paper does do you some good after all, remarked Harry with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That fellow certainly turned a flip-flop, when he found out who we were."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About your letter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a minute, replied Lathrop,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Barr will be here in a minute, he said, after introductions had been made by Lathrop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hardly care to discuss that yet, said Frank, rather nettled by Mr. Beasley's pompous manner,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In fact, he went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he added with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wonderful, said Mr. Beasley, evidently much impressed by Frank's ready manner,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "bone-shaker"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps the boys of to-day are further sighted,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Mr. Luther Barr, the famous ivory importer,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fits him better than any other. Mr. Luther Barr's black suit hung on him as baggily as the garments of a cornfield scarecrow and Mr. Luther Barr's sharp features were not improved by a small growth of gray hair; of the kind known as a"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As sharp a man as ever drove up the price of ivory, added Mr. Beasley as he introduced the boys to this singular figure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From here to Africa, struck in Mr. Barr in a sharp nasal tone that grated unpleasantly,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Beasley, exclaimed Barr suddenly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm as sharp set as a Long Island fox. Let's have a bite of breakfast and then we can get down to business."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, boys, said Mr. Barr with his mouth full of buttered toast and ham and eggs,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I know more about Africa than any man alive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have crossed that continent?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, replied the old ivory merchant with some contempt."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't waste my time where there ain't no ain't no money. What I mean is, I know more about the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast and the Slave Coast than any man in this or any other country and have got more good solid coin out of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Slave Coast? echoed Harry inquiringly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thought there wasn't no more slaves, eh? inquired Mr. Barr amiably, swallowing his coffee with a noise like water running out of a bath tub,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean to say that there is slave-running now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure I do, chirped Mr. Barr,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, let's git down to business. You boys want ter make a bit of money?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "replied Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll, there's no accounting for boys nowadays, sighed Mr. Barr,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you wish us to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just this: Mr. Beasley here and me is in on a deal in ivory. That is, we were, but the big cache we had hoarded up in the Kuroworo Mountains in the Bambara country has been stolen by a rival trader, an Arab named Muley-Hassan. We know where he's hidden it and we know, too, that he won't dare to bring it out till he thinks that we aren't watching him. Now the time is ripe for a big deal in Ivory. There is a shortage in the market. Prices will go up sky high. If we get it out in time we'll make a barrel of coin, but if we don't we stand to lose heavily."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I heard about you boys and your air-ship, and I heard, too, that you was planning a little trip to Africa and thought you might like to combine business and pleasure."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This country down here, he said, indicating it with a black rimmed finger nail,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he pointed to a red-marked trail zigzagging across the map to the range and terminating in a red star--"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Barr?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well-- said Mr. Barr,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How does it depend on us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In just this way. Muley-Hassan has his eye on us---we can do nothing toward locating the ivory. You can pitch a camp there and scout about for it in your aeroplane or dirigible or whatever you call it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But even if we do find the Arab's hiding-place, what good does that do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can arrange with the French government to send soldiers up into the country and get the stuff out, if necessary, readily replied the wrinkled old ivory dealer,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you do it, Frank? he asked anxiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please say yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Lathrop, whatever is the matter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's just this, said the boy in a voice that shook, as he tried to steady it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beggared, exclaimed both the Boy Aviators who had regarded Mr. Beasley--as indeed did his friends in general--as one of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's true, ' said Lathrop, despairingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has been speculating foolishly and entered into an agreement with this man Barr to borrow money for still further stock deals. The only hope he has of paying his debts is the realization of the profits he could have made on the ivory. Its theft was a bitter blow to him, not so much for his own sake, as for my mother and sisters. Myself I don't care, I can get out and work, but it would break my heart to see them reduced to poverty."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give us half-an-hour, Lathrop,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well--,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said Frank, with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess we'll help you out, Lath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all right, Lathrop, said Frank at length--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eight weeks--if I hear from you by cable in eight weeks I can keep things going,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Phew! whistled Frank,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you do it, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll try as hard as we know how,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And--and you'll take me along?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, you can come as your father's representative at large,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "African."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Smells like marigolds,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good looking fellows those, said the captain, who had joined the group of wondering young adventurers,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give this money to the man who finds my field glasses,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's a long chance, he remarked to Harry,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, boss; one of them was shouting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some one stole my field-glasses,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, American massa, hailed back the Krooman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sail long time 'Merican ships. I catch him for you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what do you think of that? demanded Billy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the Statue of Liberty had come off her perch and done a song and dance you couldn't have astonished me more than to hear that sack of coal talk English."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They take several of those fellows to sea on trading ships, that stop in here for logs from the interior, struck in Ben."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wouldn't surprise me but what that fellow there has been in New York harbor, yes, and in San Francisco too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are good hard workers, went on Ben,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll drown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not them, sniffed Ben,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he exclaimed, suddenly pointing,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I catch 'um, boss, I catch um,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You come ashore my boat? he begged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cost nothing to United States boys."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, here we are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The first thing to do, announced Frank,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome to Africa! cried the newcomer as he approached and who, as Frank at once guessed, was M. Desplaines himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come with me to the house and make yourselves at home."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would have been at the steamer to meet you, he exclaimed apologetically;"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi boss, you go hunt, you go far into land of Bambara,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the land of Bambara much game,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So we have heard,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the land of Bambara much danger, continued the Krooman, fixing his dark eyes full on Frank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, how do you know that?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Krooman know much that white man not know!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One--two--three--four--five go to Bambara, he intoned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back one--two--three. Two die. Sikaso, know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'd make a nice, comfortable house-pet that fellow, said Billy, who was the first to speak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, two, three, four, five go to Bambara, he mimicked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come back one, two, three. Two die. Sikaso know. Br-r-r-r-r, he gives me the creeps."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really almost envy your trip, he said,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear professor, what are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I arrived this morning from Grand Bassam on a coasting schooner, replied the professor, carefully setting down his tin box."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a remarkable specimen of the Gladiolus Gorgeosi in there, he remarked importantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am contemplating a trip into the interior via the Bia River and came to you to see if you could arrange transportation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These young men have engaged the steam launch, to tow their expedition up the river, he said hesitatingly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose there would not be the least objection to my availing myself of your assistance in getting up the river, he said, blinking behind his spectacles like an old bat who has unexpectedly emerged into the sunlight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have only two canoes and as I carry my own attendant I shall be no trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall be delighted to accommodate you, rejoined Frank heartily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Luther Barr,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, rejoined Frank, rather taken aback,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I have heard of him,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come, laughed Billy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've heard of tailed men and white Africans with red top-knots like Lathrop, but a race of winged men is coming it too strong."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laugh if you like, declared Professor Wiseman who had brought up the subject,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "went on the savant,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is any more known of this tribe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very little except what you can pick up from the natives, which is little enough, replied Professor Wiseman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then they cannot fly upward?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would seem not, replied the naturalist,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Misoto Mountains many strange Ju-jus (fetishes), he said in an awed tone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Misoto Mountains no good for white boys--white boys stay away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much, chimed in Harry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You go Misoto Mountain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what we are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That my dukkeri (fate), he said slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saw it in the smoke?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In smoke of Ju-ju fire I see it written. I see five go, three come back, in smoke too. I have spoken."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That fellow's the best disappearer I ever saw,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish he'd stop that stuff about 'five go three come back, ' said Lathrop,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What could he have meant by seeing it in the smoke?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just this, broke in a quiet voice behind them. It was Professor Wiseman, who had glided up to them as silently as a cat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a common trick among the witch doctors--of whom our friend yonder seems to be one--to divine events by means of the smoke from a fire built to the accompaniment of special incantations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that's cheerful, commented Billy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nine times out of ten, young man, said Professor Wiseman impressively fixing Billy with his gaze just as he would have impaled a bug or grasshopper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have heard of such things, but I always put them down as impossibilities,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just travelers' tales,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are many things for the young to learn in Africa, remarked Professor Wiseman coldly and gazing at Billy with squashing intentness;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gee! that was a nailer for fair, said Billy afterward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I felt as if the Doc was running a big blue pin through me and sticking me on a bit of cork."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, Frank, have you noticed that we are going to have a hard paddle back against this current?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are right, Harry, rejoined Frank, as he looked up at the steep banks on either side of them,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's too much for us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on earth are we going to do?"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold her steady,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm doing the best I can,"
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it good-by, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "While there's life there's hope, came Frank's brave reply in his favorite axiom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll live to fly the old Golden Eagle yet, let's hope."
}
]
|
6905 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we are cast into the pool let us make up our minds to get to that rock. Keep your mind concentrated on it. Don't let the idea leave you for a second and perhaps--I say 'perhaps'--we can make it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can hardly keep my grip on this tree. I don't believe that I could possibly manage to swim even a few yards,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must, said Frank sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't give in now, Harry. Stick it out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See here, it's no good our wasting our strength clinging to this trunk any longer. Sooner or later we shall be swept off and the longer we wait the less reserve strength we shall have. Let us leave go now and swim for it."
}
]
|
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