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{
"from": "human",
"value": "was the reply."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wounded"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alan's not hurrying himself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He certainly ought to have been back by this time, agreed Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he is entering into conversation with some French Scouts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That reminds me, said Flemming, who also prided himself upon a knowledge of the French language."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was wondering what to say as an exclamation when we are talking to these Scouts. For instance, what is the usual translation of 'Well, I'm jiggered'?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've rarely heard you say that, Flemming, observed Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You generally exclaim, 'Well, I'm blest', I notice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's easily translated, then, rejoined Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's merely: _Je suis blessé._"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll let it go at that, concluded Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, what about Alan, you fellows? Hadn't we better send out a search-party?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's he been doing, I wonder? asked Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Butting up against some rotten red-tape regulation, I expect. Hadn't we better inform Mr. Armitage?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's make certain that Alan's under arrest first,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made a mistake, he admitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mistook the police-station for the post-office, and it took me some time to explain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're a bright one! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know what you did: you asked for '_le poste_' instead of '_la poste_'. The first means a police-station, the second a post-office. That's one up against you, my festive."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wait, declared Alan, imperturbably;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll score off you fellows yet."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see now why I want to try and bring the boat into the floating-dock, observed Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we remained in the tidal harbour we would have to be continually altering the scope of the warps as the level of the water changed. Here we are relieved of that trouble and responsibility, and there is no necessity to have to ascend and descend the long ladder to get ashore or on board at low water."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I've found a hostage, thought Eric, as he deftly drew the lad's arms behind him and round the mast and lashed the wrists together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They won't dare to hurl things on board now."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been to l'Angleterre, declared one of the Scouts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ze last summaire I vas at Sout'ampton at ze rally."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was there, too, replied Flemming; then using his Gallicized version of his favourite ejaculation, he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ". Several of the French Scouts produced a packet of bandages and a first-aid outfit, while there were shouts raised for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the game, thought the bewildered Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are they giving a first-aid demonstration and using me as a subject, just to show how they go about it?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have you been doing, Flemming? asked his Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you hurt yourself?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why are these Scouts on board with their first-aid bandages?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, sir; I'm blessed if I do! declared Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was just talking to them, and----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose you said, 'Well, I'm blessed' in French,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I certainly remember saying '_Je suis blessé_',"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That did it, continued Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew it would happen before very long. '_Je suis blessé_' is not 'I'm blessed' but 'I am wounded'. Hurry up and go below and get dressed properly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Ditch"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think we shall be able to accept, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are sailing for Havre early to-morrow, if all's well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not think you vill sail,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's too much of a good thing, he protested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've never, never been in a basin before, and this one's quite enough. Doesn't it whiff?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does, admitted Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now you come to mention it, there is an odour of sorts."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And those little bounders the French ragamuffins, continued Eric."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The stuff lying on the decks is only a small part of what they threw. I cleared up three times before the Cherbourg Scouts came upon the scene and chased them off. Hello, what's this coming?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does he want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I rather fancy he wants us to shift,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy, there! shouted a short, thick-set, jovial-looking officer clad in a salt-stained serge uniform."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you drop astern a couple of lengths?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You Sea Scouts know your job, I can see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, replied Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May we come aboard you and have a look round?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right-o,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it'll blow before night, the skipper observed in answer to Peter's question."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We struck it pretty bad off the Longships, and right across the Channel there was a tidy roll on. That generally means a bit of a blow. You'll be here for the best part of a week, I'll allow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, suggested the _Acacis_' Old Man, when he learnt of the unwelcome attentions of the Cherbourg gamins,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for eight or nine hours, and as the tides run strongly off the French coast, the question of"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've about one knot advantage in speed, remarked the Scoutmaster,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dashed if I can make out what that fellow is saying, exclaimed Hepburn with a puzzled look."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you, Reggie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not surprised, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The French system is different from ours. Don't you remember when we were at Dover----"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man overboard, shouted Boldrigg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A hand from the tramp's in the ditch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is! exclaimed Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A point on our port bow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Easy ahead! ordered the Scoutmaster, then"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's almost done for!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Semaphore the _Acacis_, Alan, ordered the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell them to carry on, and we'll hand over the man at Havre. He's not in a fit state to be moved at present."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You managed that awfully well, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did I? rejoined Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a matter of fact it was quite an easy matter, because we were in the wake of the tramp. Supposing one of us had fallen overboard, what would you have done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thrown over a life-belt, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gone astern,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never in a light-draughted, single-screwed boat, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'd never answer to her helm while going astern, and if the wind were abeam, she'd be blown to lee'ard of the man in the water. Now remember, if there's time, put the boat's helm over so that the boat's stern flies away from the person overboard. That is to avoid hitting him with the propeller, since men who have fallen overboard almost invariably try to swim towards the boat. Then, keeping 'easy ahead', make a complete circle and come up bows on to the man, keeping just enough way for the boat to answer her helm, and still get there quicker and with far more chance of success than by any other way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll remember that, sir, said Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I hope I'll never have to try it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I, too, added Mr. Armitage fervently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But one never knows."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More floating docks! exclaimed Flemming ruefully, as he surveyed the stagnant water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How long do we stop here, sir, please?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only until we've handed back the man belonging to the _Acacis_, and shown our papers to the authorities, replied Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going to bring up in the Tancarville Canal to-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Canal, sir? echoed Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought we were going up the River Seine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So we are, Dick, replied the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This canal, however, saves us a dangerous bit of navigation. The estuary of the Seine is full of shifting sandbanks, and if we did happen to get aground, the _Olivette_ would stand a great risk of becoming a total loss. There have been numerous instances of quite large vessels grounding in the estuary and heeling over and filling. You see the bore complicates matters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bore, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you'll make its acquaintance before very long, replied Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll get the tail end of it several times before we reach Rouen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was the Sea Scout who took to the ditch? inquired the Old Man, after he had expressed his warmest thanks for the rescue and care of the man who had fallen overboard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wasn't much, eh? I don't know about that. I call it pretty plucky. I mean to report the circumstance to the Royal Humane Society when I get back--which may be in a couple of months or more. On this job one never knows when the trip's going to end."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is one of the things they do better in France, observed Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not only do they provide a safe means of avoiding the dangerous estuary, but they grant us a free passage. If the canals of England were half as well looked after as they are on this side of the Channel----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must see the sights of Harfleur, declared Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is only a little town, but it's full of interest. You remember, perhaps, how it was besieged and captured by Henry V before he won the Battle of Agincourt."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the light that does it, declared Boldrigg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put out the light an' the midges'll sheer off."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another eleven miles before we're through the canal, lads, announced Mr. Armitage as the _Olivette_ prepared to get under way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll have to cut out a couple of cylinders, Roche, as we did in the Thames. Five miles an hour is the speed limit here."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've a hot tide against us, sir, remarked Peter when the boat was breasting the swift current of the river."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oughtn't we to bring up until the flood sets in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, replied Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must push on and try and reach Quillebeuf before then."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have the bore to take into consideration, was Mr. Armitage's enigmatical answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let her all out, Flemming, and keep within easy distance of the reversing-lever; it may be wanted in a hurry."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thunder, by Jove!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Barre"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hang on to something, all hands! shouted Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hard-a-starboard, Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy ahead!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's another one, sir!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jolly exciting, eh, what? exclaimed Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does that happen twice every day, sir? If so, what do we do when there's a bore at night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll certainly have a repetition of it, replied Mr. Armitage,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We won't feel much of the bore here, said Mr. Armitage, when the _Olivette_ had picked up a set of moorings lent by a courteous Frenchman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be safe to leave the boat; so who's for the shore? A jolly good walk will do us good. Are you coming with us, Tom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what did you think of the bore, Mr. Boldrigg? asked Peter, while the old seaman was changing into"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much, by a long chalk, Master Peter, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I saw that there a-bearing down on us, I wished I was properly afloat--plenty of sea-room, you'll understand. Rivers is all very well, but give me the deep sea--it's safer."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll be back at sunset, or soon after,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, aye, sir, replied Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll keep a look-out for you."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we're all snug, Phil, exclaimed Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going on deck to write letters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So am I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we can post them when we go ashore for the other fellows,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lay the table in the after-cabin, Phil, said his companion"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll start up the stove. We'll have a jolly good feed ready for them when they return. They'll be here in twenty minutes or half an hour."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the sort! exclaimed Roche approvingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're getting quite a smart sailorman. How's the tide? Why, it's ebbing and we've swung down-stream."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's happened to the others, I wonder?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lost their way, perhaps, replied Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "P'r'aps Hepburn's been run in again, suggested Flemming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My word, isn't the tide running hard; I wouldn't like to have to go overboard on a dark night like this."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll get the dinghy alongside ready to go ashore, said Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll lie there quietly now we're head to wind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't forget to haul in the bucket, Roche reminded him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She'll do, he reported."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's as quiet as a lamb. Wonder what those fellows are doing ashore? It's nearly midnight. You'd better turn in, Rayburn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that coming towards us?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She'll hit us! shouted Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand by and fend her off. Phil, put the helm hard over, and see if we can sheer clear of her."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look to the dinghy!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's Eric? shouted Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was in the dinghy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On board the barge, replied Phil;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw him jump for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to get him off the barge somehow, Phil, declared Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't wait for the others, and I don't know how they'll get on board. Now, look here: do you think you can manage the helm if I start up the motor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do my best,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't do more, rejoined Roche encouragingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So let's get to work and get about it."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, exclaimed Roche breathlessly,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahead!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy ahead"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! ordered Phil, putting the helm over gently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Touch astern."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, you fellows, he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bear a hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't, replied Rayburn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are only two of us on board. Roche is at the motor and I at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All fast!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Easy ahead!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we going to do with her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tow her clear of the fairway, I suppose, replied Flemming."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't stem this tide; that's a cert. She has an anchor on board, but it's too heavy for me to drop overboard single-handed, or I'd have done so long ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep her like that! shouted Flemming to the helmsman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Dick; you can leave the motor for a brace of shakes. Come and bear a hand with the mud-hook. Mind where you tread, old son; the barge is bunged up with things to trip you up. I've had some."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, you fellows! he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of you come down here as sharp as you can. She's sprung a leak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must have been that biff when the barge fouled us! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look! the floor-boards are awash!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Easy ahead."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are we now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nearly there, replied the Tenderfoot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's slow work against the stream."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have to beach her, I'm afraid,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No good doing that now, objected Roche;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're nearly there, announced the Tenderfoot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's going to pick up the moorings?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bet that kid makes a bog of it,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Finished with the engines,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's not a sign of the others, he announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What on earth can have happened to them, I wonder? It's nearly half-past one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did jolly well, Phil! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We would have been in a pretty kettle of fish if you hadn't been here. But you're tired. How about turning in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not tired, really, protested the Tenderfoot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take a turn at the pump if you like."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right-o, agreed Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may have to have spells at it all night; but I think I'll try to find out where it's coming in and have a go at stopping it."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better let well alone, decided Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's jolly tedious work manning the pump, but we'll keep the old hooker afloat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will give each of us half-an-hour spells, he added."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One or both of the others can stop on deck to keep a look-out for the liberty men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "P'r'aps they are not 'liberty men' any longer, remarked Flemming."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's jolly rummy that they haven't shown up before this. Right-o, Dick; I'll take on with the pumping."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, said Dick reassuringly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's coming round a bend; that's why she appears end on. She'll starboard her helm in half a tick."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's leaking fast,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll be as much as we can do to keep going till daylight, declared Flemming as he"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to his chum."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best thing we can do is to get a bucket going. I'll bale, and pass the bucket up to Phil for him to sling overboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good idea, agreed Roche, turning up his sleeves and grasping the handle of the pump."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll keep her afloat, old thing, even if it snows ink."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liberty Men"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we keep on in a straight line, declared Mr. Armitage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep in a straight line"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moss and lichen always grow on the north side of a tree-trunk, quoted Hepburn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's your torch, Peter? Shine it this way."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carry on, then, suggested Mr. Armitage,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have tramped miles, declared Woodleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe we're going round in circles."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancy we're nearly out of the wood, said the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can feel a breeze. Yes, I thought so."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must be Le Mesnil, decided Mr. Armitage, after he had consulted a map by the aid of an electric torch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all plain sailing now. We'll follow the river bank. It's only six miles to Duclair. Come on: Scouts' pace, forward."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lazy blighters have turned in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's her riding-lamp? asked Alan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe she's gone--broken adrift, or something."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The _Olivette_ isn't there, he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think she's broken adrift, or the mooring-buoy would have gone with her. I hope Roche hasn't got into a panic about our late arrival and gone off in search of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He couldn't expect to find us in the river, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S'pose not, admitted Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But to get down to rock-bottom facts, the _Olivette's_ not on the moorings and we're benighted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps she was in a prohibited anchorage, sir, suggested Peter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I inquired if she would be all right there, replied the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She can't be very far away. Roche would have dropped the anchor when he found her adrift. Anyone too tired to join in the search? How about you, Mr. Boldrigg?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a bit, sir, admitted the old man, who had just rejoined the others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it ain't no good hangin' on to the slack when there's a hammock waiting for me on board. So the sooner we find the hooker the better for everyone, says I."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, monsieur, we did see a motor-boat. She passed close, very close, to our little boat. She was towing a large lighter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid that is not the motor-boat we are looking for, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you happen to notice any of the crew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, monsieur, declared one of the men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was but one visible. He wore a blue blouse and a white hat--so. Like these messieurs here. The light shone from below upon him, understand; therefore I could discern. She was going towards Duclair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A white boat with a deck-house, sir, corroborated one of his companions, tracing an outline with his finger."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Towards the front one little mast but no funnel. Monsieur is benighted? Then perhaps he would care to accompany us to our lodgings for refreshments."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is our affair, monsieur, protested one of the students when Mr. Armitage offered to pay for the refreshment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I was a _poilu_ of the 141st Regiment we were once on the left of an English battalion. We were hungry and they were well fed--merely a matter of commissariat, monsieur--and when they found out we were famished, half their rations were passed into our trench. Monsieur has served, of course?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess we know the way by this time, remarked Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three times in one night is about the limit. Do we turn out at seven to-morrow--or rather, to-day, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're not on board yet, Peter, rejoined the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I think I'm safe in saying that we'll keep to our hammocks till noon."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They seem in no hurry to come for us, observed Warkworth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ahoy, there! shouted Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you find someone to put you off? We've no dinghy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then they have had a mishap, declared Warkworth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe I can see the dinghy astern. She's waterlogged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll take French leave, decided Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since we are in France, I take it that in the circumstances it is permissible. Find a boat with detachable bottom-boards. We can paddle her out all right, and return her when the owner shows up."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we've kept her afloat, sir, declared Flemming triumphantly, as he displayed his blistered hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've done enough pumping to be excused duty for the rest of the voyage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're keeping the leak under and no more, sir. If we knock off for even a minute the water rises over the floor boards."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it's about time we came, rejoined Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're nearly on the top of high water. Directly it's slack tide, we'll cast off and warp into that shipbuilder's yard at the head of the quay. Until the _Olivette_ is high and dry we cannot see the full extent of the damage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ", and from the bows to a distance of ten feet aft the caulking had been forced from the seams. Had it not been for the big"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a bad business, declared one of the Frenchmen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have not the material for executing repairs here. It will be necessary to proceed up to Rouen, where, at the _chantier_ of Declos et Cie., the work can be executed in a proper manner. Meanwhile we ourselves will stop the leak temporarily, so that your little vessel will, with safety, make the passage to Rouen."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am but a poor man, monsieur, said the latter,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's driven by an aerial propeller, declared Peter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can see the glint on the blades as they revolve."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alert!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We ought to have dipped our ensign, I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There wasn't time, rejoined Woodleigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He passed before you could count five."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's turning! exclaimed Alan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, what a heel! Oh, look! she's over!"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he exclaimed, and gravely produced a saturated visiting-card on which were the words"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Raoul de la Voie, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse me, remarked the Frenchman, with an almost perfect English accent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks awfully, replied Mr. Armitage, falling back upon his mother-tongue. Then he added gravely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you are feeling quite chirpy now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chirpy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chirpy--bucked,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, he continued, with a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm feeling absolutely top-hole, thank you, notwithstanding an unusual style of bathing in the Seine. Salvage? Hardly necessary to trouble you, sir; you've done quite enough for us as it is, but if you will buoy the spot, one of my barges will conduct the operations. If you will be good enough to give my mechanic and me a passage to Rouen?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And this happened last night, then? It is just possible that I know who is the owner of the barge that caused the mischief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a careless blighter, sir, whoever he is, to let a barge break adrift,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, assented Monsieur de la Vole solemnly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do you propose going to for repairs?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were recommended to the Chantier Declos,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You could not have been better recommended, he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It happens that I keep my private boats in that yard. There it is: on your left hand just beyond that crane."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would think they were all touched,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have found out for you who is the cause of your misfortune. That man is the captain of the tug drawing the barges, and the rearmost barge broke her tow-rope and ran into your yacht."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he is the careless blighter, monsieur,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, he remarked emphatically."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He asked for a new tow-rope two weeks ago, and the owner neglected to supply him with one. So it is the owner who is the careless blighter, _n'est-ce pas?_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think so, monsieur, agreed Alan."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know who he is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no harm done, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a joke. Let me explain. I am the actual owner of the Chantier Declos, and these are my barges. Therefore I am responsible for the damage done to your _Olivette_, and I must needs make reparation. I have sent for my foreman to come and make a report, and put the work in hand at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Awfully sporting of you, monsieur,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a duty,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your yacht will require a new stem-piece, breast-hook, and seven new planks forward, he announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There will also be several seams to require caulking, and, of course, painting and varnishing. My foreman says he hopes to complete the repairs in a week or ten days."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have to cut out the Paris trip, lads,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paris? echoed Raoul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not? Is it absolutely necessary that you proceed by water?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, if we went at all, replied Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By living on board we could manage the visit without much expense. Living at an hotel in Paris is beyond our means. However, we are more fortunate than I expected. We might have had to return home with empty pockets."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you cannot well live on board your yacht while the repairs are in hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose that's so, agreed Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With planks out, and wet paint about, life on board wouldn't be exactly comfortable. Perhaps we might hire a fairly large tent and camp out somewhere away from the town?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it could be arranged, replied Raoul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since I am greatly in your debt for saving the life of my man Pierre, and for pulling me out of the Seine, it would be a great pleasure to me if you would be my guests. My home is at Tourville-la-Rivière, about ten kilometres up the Seine. There I can provide a tent, and if the weather be unpropitious there is plenty of room in the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, continued his host,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which ones, please, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Aisne and the Marne, replied Monsieur de la Voie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you inquire so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because, sir, replied the old seaman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I lost a lad on the Marne."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I lost my only brother, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were on the right of a British division. Their dash was magnificent. Yes, I remember the crossing of the Marne. It was there that I gained this and lost that."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So now, he continued briskly,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A low-down trick to do us out of a ride in a top-hole car,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I had to ride a push-bike out here, declared Warkworth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd barge into everything, 'cause I'd simply have to keep to the left. And don't the motors look weird with the left-hand drive?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is your tent, he said, pointing to a fairly spacious marquee pitched on high ground about two hundred yards from the house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I telephoned to my steward to have it pitched at once. But first let us have dinner."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've fallen on our feet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You speak for yourself, young fellah-me-lad! rejoined Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't usual to fall on your feet when you sleep. This is the proper way--on one's side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Someone must have capsized me, he soliloquized."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it weren't for the fact that we're not in our own quarters, I'd get my own back."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show a leg and shine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Been digging yourself in, Dick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--why?"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought that you had had a hand in it, declared Roche."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But come-back-all-I-said. Who's cook? Where's the galley?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're in France, remember, said Mr. Armitage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I say! ejaculated the Tenderfoot ruefully. He had a typical British appetite, and always went all-out for a good breakfast."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm so hungry."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ze breakfast: he is served in ze house, messieurs."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your programme for to-day? inquired Monsieur Raoul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As matters stand, the position is this: you are my guests for ten days, but I want you to have full liberty of action. You will, of course, want to watch the progress of the repairs, and no doubt will want to explore the surrounding country. I assure you it has its good points. Then, again, there are the projected visits to Paris and to the Marne. These will take at least three days. It is for you to say when you will go."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The weather seems settled, he added;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, Mr. Boldrigg, suggested the Scoutmaster,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, sir, replied the old man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What I'm going to do isn't anything to be ashamed of."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Straight from the garden at home, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An' my boy was that fond of flowers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be watered carefully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, sir,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, lads, began Mr. Armitage, when the crew had re-embarked and stowed away their gear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take advantage of the weather while it is fine, sir, and return by easy stages."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite a good idea, concurred Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It often happens that, when a cruise has to be completed by a certain time, a homeward start is deferred until the last possible moment. Then the weather may be boisterous, and the crew are 'in the soup'. Either they have to overstay their time, or else they've got to make a dash for it, at great inconvenience and possible risk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, sir, remarked Peter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it's not over yet,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am hoping, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they do, sir, said Peter,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've been done out of a little excitement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You speak for yourself, old thing, rejoined Roche."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've still a lump on my forehead where I bashed my head against the deck-beam as the old boat stood on her head. In my opinion, bores are a nuisance, whether they are of the human variety or otherwise."
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a proper sport,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There was a time when I thought all Frenchmen wore stove-pipe hats, pointed moustachios, and tufts of hair on their chins. Going abroad widens one's outlook,"
}
]
|
56325 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We start to-morrow, lads, announced Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fine weather is holding, but there are indications of a break-up in the course of the next forty-eight hours. We can't afford to be held up here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At what hour, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seven in the morning at high-water, replied the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With luck, we ought to be inside the Wight before sunset."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "was the equivalent for"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "P'raps he's got a pal on the tug and wants a yarn, he soliloquized."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wonder what he is doing now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell him keep to dis side, he declared,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the row you've had with the pilot, Peter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Row, sir? I didn't have a row. He told me to starboard. I expected him to tell me to port helm, but I carried out his orders. Then he began roaring like a lunatic. If I had hesitated and ported helm, there would have been a most awful smash."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There has been a mistake, admitted the Scoutmaster,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was over and forgotten, but during the rest of the voyage down the estuary he took good care to say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Port ze helm dis vay, or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Turn ze ship's 'ead to ze left."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not make ze tarry, monsieur, he said to Mr. Armitage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ze weather it looks not nice. By dark, it blow ver' 'ard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's hope he's wrong for once, thought the Scoutmaster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the same, the glass is falling, so the sooner we get into sheltered water the better."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let her rip, Flemming, he ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Full speed ahead."
}
]
|
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