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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Duke, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lie down: watch!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, old chap, cried Dyke, ignoring the fact that he had not tried," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duke will be there, and I should hear any one who came," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save the horses in the stables!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all over; I am marked down, and though I keep on running, I can never get away. It will catch me soon." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must be firm, and not nervous, or I shall miss," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wretch! how you startled me," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Safe there!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah-ah-ah-ah! Wanter bucket: milk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tant! cried Dyke, laying his hand on the bar." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mind! there is a lion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh? Eat a lot. Eat cow." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see the lion?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; no hurt, said Tanta pleasantly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Too much eat. Baas Joe die?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No! cried Dyke, angrily, annoyed with the woman, and against himself for his unnecessary fear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But what do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Milk cow--say moo-ooo!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only one cow. Lion eat much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, I know all about that, cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack take away. No top. Jack tief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know that; but do you mean Jack made you go away?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No top. Come back along, baas. Make fire, make cake, make milk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make yourself useful, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come top baas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here! cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No! no!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack tief!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I understand, said Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas shoot gun," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "But Joe wouldn't like it when he gets better," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wagon, said the woman promptly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack get mealie wagon. Jack tief. Tanta Sal get mealie for baas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's right; but you should ask me. But, look here, Tant, Jack shan't come here. You understand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack tief," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat for Jack," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bother the old ostriches! cried Dyke, as he looked down eagerly at the sick man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can soon get some more, or do something else. We shan't starve. You're mending fast, Joe, or you couldn't have eaten like that; and if you get well, what does it matter about anything else? Only you might look at a fellow as if you knew him, and just say a few words." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack tief, she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack tief, said Tanta again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kill, hit stritch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tant feed. Jack knock kopf." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! Jack knock the young ostriches on the head?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ooomps!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The beast!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ooomps! Jack tief." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack, she said laconically--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack no want stritch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No wonder our young birds didn't live, thought Dyke. Then to the woman, as he pointed to the skull:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Find another one!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that's it, sure enough, said Dyke thoughtfully;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look, he said, tapping it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If Jack comes, I'll shoot; and he added to himself:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will too. I'll pepper him with the smallest shot I've got." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; ooomps, said the woman, nodding her head approvingly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack say Baas Joe die. Have all mealie, all cow, all bull-bull, all everyting.-- Baas Joe not go die?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, assented the woman, smiling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tanta top. Tant don't want um any more. Tief. Shoot Jack. No kill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no! I won't kill him; but don't let him come here again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We know now why the ostriches didn't get on. Nice sort of disease that. Oh! I do wish I had caught the nigger at it. But never mind, Joe's getting on; and as soon as I can leave him, I'll hunt out some more nests, and we'll begin all over again, and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That you, little un? How long you have been." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has been the matter, young un? piped Emson feebly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, don't look like that. Have I had a fall from my horse? I can't lift my hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't, he whispered excitedly--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! cried Dyke, with a forced laugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You--you've been--nursing me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been here, but it hasn't been much of nursing, cried Dyke, laughing in a half-choking way, as his breast swelled with joy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've fed you with a spoon and washed your face. Oh Joe, old man, you've been just like a big, stupid old baby." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And have I been ill long?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, ever so long. I was a terrible while before I got back, because the little river out yonder was flooded, and when I did come, I--I--I-- oh Joe, old chap, I do feel so happy once more." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here! I've been letting you talk too much while you're so weak," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas no go die, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack tief. Baas Joe go get well. Look!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack find eggs, said Tanta." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, hold hard! cried Dyke angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mustn't do that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. Tant mussen. Jack find eggs, do so. Jack tief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I'm glad I know where the eggs went, said Dyke, taking the remainder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought our hens ought to lay some. But why didn't you tell us before?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack say killum, replied the woman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe hungry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet; I'll see to him," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, cried Dyke excitedly;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who says Kopfontein isn't a beautiful place? he said softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did, and didn't know any better. Why, it's lovely, and Joe and I will do well yet." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "But never again! he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know any better then: I do now;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, if I had old Duke here, he might have retrieved those for me," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, there he is, tracking me out," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good dog! Two more! Seek! cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Off with you!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, said his master," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has found a snake, perhaps," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here! I want to get back with these birds, old fellow, cried Dyke at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I must see what he has found," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now then, stupid, what is it? cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shan't go any farther, mind.--Why, hullo! old chap, what have you got? Why, they're lion cubs!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, come away, cried Dyke, after kneeling down to examine the stupid-looking, tawny things," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall make the mother feel as fierce as can be, and there'll be no mercy for us then, old chap. But how in the world did they come to be here? Their mother must be prowling about the place, and--Oh, I see, he cried, as the light came." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was their mother I shot, and the poor little creatures are starving. It would be a mercy to kill them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seems stupid, he muttered," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Duke! he cried;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nice position for me if I'm wrong, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose their mother isn't dead, and she finds me stealing her young ones. Ugh!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are you?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take lion's babies too? she said, shaking her head severely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not good eat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who wants to eat them? said Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No: I'm going to keep them. Come, make haste. I want to see those birds cooking into soup." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Soup? Ooomps. Tant know make tea--coffee--dinner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; soup." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ooomps; make bird tea, coffee? Baas Joe drink in spoon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's right; you understand," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of these, Joe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dangerous, little un, said Emson feebly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The mother will scent them out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No: I feel sure it was their mother I shot last night. She lies out yonder where Tant and I dragged her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said Emson softly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She did? Bravo! well done, Tant! But look here, Joe: couldn't I bring these cubs up?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, for a time; but they would grow dangerous. Try." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack say Baas Joe go die, she cried, clapping her legs with her hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack tief." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's my fault for not taking the things indoors, he said in a vexed tone of voice;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you fetch some mealies from here last night?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No: Jack, cried the woman excitedly--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack tief." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I thought so, said Dyke thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, that will do;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe muss plenty meat, tea, coffee, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No eat, Baas Joe die." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you are getting better fast, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Getting better slowly, not fast, little un, replied Emson sadly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven knows how I pray for strength, so as to relieve you, boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who wants to be relieved? cried Dyke roughly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All I mind is not getting on better with the work, because now I have not Jack to help. I get on so slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, Dyke," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! What's the matter? What have I done?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing but what is patient and persevering." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no! don't say that, cried the boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've always been a discontented grumbler ever since I've been here, Joe. But, I say, don't call me Dyke. It sounds as if you were getting formal with me, and as if we were not as we used to be before you were taken bad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we are, old chap. Better and more brotherly than ever. I never knew till now how brave, and true, and manly--Ha! he's gone," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, there you are, said Emson." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and sit down. I want to speak to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Joe, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm baas now, and I shall do as I like. Are you going to talk any more of that nonsense? I am going if you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not talk nonsense. I only said--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You stop, sir. Don't you get only saiding again, for I won't have it. It's weak, and sickly, and sentimental. Who wants to be told that he helped his brother when he was ill? Such rot! Why, wouldn't you have fed me and washed my face if I'd grown as stupid and weak as you? There, shake hands. I'll forgive you this time; but if ever-- Hooray-y-y-y! He's getting some muscle in his arm again. You can feel him grip! Why, a fortnight ago it was like shaking hands with a dead chicken. I say, Joe, old man, you are heaps better." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'm getting better. I feel as if I shall live now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Live? Now there's a jolly old stupid. Just as if you were ever going to feel anything else. Look here, Joe: I shall have to make an alteration. I've been spoiling you, giving you too many good things. And to begin with, I think I'll cut your hair." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it short enough?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, there: it looks nice and fashionable. But all down at the back it's like Breezy's mane." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you shall cut it, Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah-h-h!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well then, young un. But how is poor Breezy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Getting wild for want of riding. I went toward her yesterday, and she began dancing a _pas-de-deux_-legs on her fore-hoofs, and sparred at the sky with her hind. Wait a bit, and you and I'll take some of the steam out of her and Longshanks. We'll hunt out no end of ostriches' nests in the farther-off part of the veldt. Here, what are you shaking your jolly old head for? It's been quite shaky enough, hasn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking of the ostrich-farming, little un, said Emson sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, my lad, no more time wasted over that. Two hundred years hence they may have got a more manageable strain of domesticated birds that will live well in confinement. We've had our try, and failed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bah! Not half tried. I haven't. No, Joe, we won't give up. We'll do it yet. Why, it was that black scoundrel Jack who caused half the mischief. Oh, Joe, if I could only have caught him when he was knocking those poor young birds on the head, and had my gun with me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! would you have shot at him, young un?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I'd had small shot in one of the barrels. They'd have just gone through, and peppered his hide nicely. I say, Joe, his clothes wouldn't have stopped the shot corns." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Emson, smiling;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hooray-y-y-y!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at him! A regular half laugh. We shall have the whole laugh soon. But there, I mustn't stop, wasting time here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; stay a little longer, little un. I want to talk to you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About my being such a nice, good boy--so brave and so noodley? No, you don't. I'm off!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; I will not say a word about that. I want to talk to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the ostriches want feeding." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They must wait, said Emson sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've made us wait for profit. Look here, little un; sit down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if you want it. But, honour bright: no buttering me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to talk about our future." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I can tell you that, Joe. We're going to make a big success of the farm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, boy; we are going to give it up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! Sell it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; I should be ashamed to take money off a man for so worthless a bargain. We are going to scrape together what skins and feathers are ours, so as to pay our way, and going home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! empty? cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That we won't." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must, boy. I shall never be myself till I have been under a good doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What nonsense, Joe. There, let's talk about something else.--I say, how playful the cubs get; but they're more like big Saint Bernard pups than kittens." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us talk about our future, boy, said Emson rather sternly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thinking bitterly of our prospects when I was sickening for this fever, and I have thought more about them since I have been lying here helpless; and as soon as I can get about, we must prepare for going home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beaten! Go home, and say: `It's of no use, father; we're a poor, helpless pair.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must accept the inevitable, little un." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There isn't any inevitable when you're my age, Joe. One always used to feel on a bad day that sooner or later the fish would begin to bite." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but we used to change to another place." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sometimes. Well, let's change to another place, then. But it would be a pity. We've got never-failing water here, and even if the lions and baboons do come sometimes, it's a capital place. I say, Joe, have another try." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've quite changed your tune, old fellow, said Emson mournfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, of course. What fellow doesn't remember what a donkey he has been? I've often thought of it while you were ill, Joe, and of what a nuisance I must have been while you were so patient. And I said to myself--There, never mind that--I say, Joe, do you really mean for us to go back beaten?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not have one more try!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No: I am too much broken down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I'm not. I'm getting full of pluck and work now, and I'll do anything to keep things going till you come round." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I say it is of no use, my lad; we are trying an impossibility." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then let's try something else. What do you think old Morgenstern said?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That we were wasting time over the ostriches." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, yes, he did say that. But he said something else." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes? What?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That he heard they were finding diamonds out on the veldt, and that he should advise you to have a good try." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Moonshine, boy. The other day it was gold. Do you think we should be wise in spending our days hunting for diamonds?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, you are wise in that. Old Morgenstern is a good, honest, old fellow, but it does not do to take anybody's advice on your own affairs, about which you know best yourself. There, I must not talk any more; but don't go dreaming about diamonds, little un. You and I did not come out here to make a fortune, but to get a straightforward, honest living." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "But Joe'll think differently when he gets better," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One can't work and watch, too, he thought as he yawned," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up! Come! was whispered in his ear, and he felt the stout cudgel pressed upon his legs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You, Tant? he faltered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oomps. Jump. Jack come. Jack tief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Shoo! whispered the woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bring gun, shoot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want me to shoot Jack?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oomps. Wagon. Kaffirs take all mealies." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a pretty sort of a wife," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put it out?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where are they? whispered Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At the wagon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, not come; Jack come say Tant Sal go 'way to-night 'long o' Jack. Gone fetch Kaffir, carry mealies. Come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop a moment. Let's have the dog." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No: dog make noise, and Jack top. Come." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Absurd! he thought the next moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should they hurt me? They could have robbed the wagon without." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack say try kill Baas Dyke, but dog come. Kill Baas Dyke some day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's nice, whispered the boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack tief. Want wagon, want horse, want all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then it's war, said Dyke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shoo!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack come, Jack one, Jack one, Jack one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four of them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oomps. Baas Dyke shoot." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It won't hit, only frighten them," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat Jack, she said, laughing softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack tief. No come kill Tant now." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those wouldn't kill him, he muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No get mealies now, said the woman, interrupting the boy's musings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Dyke go bed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop! suppose they are waiting?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait? What for? she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. All run away. No come now." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tant go sleep," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "She wouldn't know," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat Jack, she said, holding up one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dose oder fellow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will they come for them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. Jack no come again. Get other wife. Tant Sal don't want any more." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some poor wretch going up in the wilds to seek his fortune, said Emson rather sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish him better luck than ours, young un." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I say, Joe, don't talk in that doleful way, cried Dyke excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is so jolly. It's like being Robinson Crusoe and seeing a sail. Here, wait while I fetch the glass." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's that fat old Dutchman, Morgenstern! Who'd have thought of seeing him?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, Joe, see his great whip? He looked in the glass as if he were fishing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tant make fine big cake--kettle boil--biltong tea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Emson quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, he continued, as Tanta Sal ran off to the back of the house," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, but I feel sure this is the old chap.--I say, what's the German for fat old man?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know. My German has grown rusty out here. Dicker alte Mann, perhaps. Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because I mean to call him that. He always called me booby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, bube:--boy," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! mein goot vrient Emzon, how you vas to-day? Vere is der bube?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dicker alte Mann!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is goot to shack hant mit an Englander. Bood you look tin, mein vrient. You haf been down mit dem vever?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I've been very ill." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is nod goot. Bood you ged besser now. Ach, here is der poy! Ach! mein goot liddle bube, ant how you vas?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm quite well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ov goorse you vas. Grade, pig, oogly, shtrong poy. I am clad to zee you again. You did got home guite zave?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eh? Oh yes. But that's ever so long ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Ach! I haf been zo busy as neffer vas. Now you led mein two poys outspan, eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, said Emson warmly.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show them where the best pasture is, toward the water, Dyke.--Come in, Herr. You look hot and tired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ja, zo. I am sehr hot, and you give me zomeden to drink. I haf zom peaudivul dea in dem vagons. I give you zom to make." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know vad I vants?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; your pipe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ja, I wand mein bibe. You gom mit me do god mein bibe und mein dobacco din; und den I light oop, und shmoke und dalk do you, und you go all round, und zhow me den ostridge-bird varm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You muss god besser, mein vrient. You are nod enough dick--doo tin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm mending fast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You haf been zo goot, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You dake me now do see if mein pullocks and my poys is ead und trink." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, they're all right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ja. Bood I always like do zee for meinzelf. Zom beobles ist nod as goot as you vas, mein vrient. A good draveller ist kind do his beast und his plack poy." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You haf no lions apout here, said the old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he cried, turning pale as he heard a peculiar noise from somewhere close at hand. Quigg!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You ged der goon und shoot, or der lion gom und preak von of der oxen's pack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all right, cried Dyke, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come and look here." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! shdop. Do not led them ead der poor alter pecause he is zo nice und vat. Eh, dey will not hurt me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No! cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! id is vonterful, said the old man, wiping the perspiration from his face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did tought dey vas go to eat den alt man. You make dem dame like dot mit dem jambok." }, { "from": "human", "value": "With a whip? No, cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Boor liddle vellows den, said the old man, putting out his hand nervously." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach, no; id is doo bat, you liddle lion. Vot you mean py schmell me all over? I am nod for you do ead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, come along, he cried; and the cubs bounded to him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll shut them up for fear they should frighten your oxen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das is goot, said the old man with a sigh of satisfaction, as he saw the door closed upon the two great playful cats." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bood you zhall mind, or zom day I zhall gom ant zee you, but vind you are not ad home, vor die young lion haf grow pig und ead you all oop." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Emson;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! I dell you vot, mein vrient Emzon, I puy dose lion ov you, or you led me shell dem, to go do Angland or do Sharmany." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think you could?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do I dink I good? Ja, I do drade in effery dings. I gom now to puy iffory und vedders. You shell me all you vedders, und I gif you good brice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a very poor lot, Morgenstern, but I'll sell them to you. Dyke and I have done very badly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Bood you will zell do me. I zaid do myself I vould go und zee mein vrient Emzon und den bube. He zay I am honest man.--You droost me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, said Emson frankly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know you for what you are, Morgenstern." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dank you, Herr Emzon, he said, shaking his host's hand warmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Id is goot do veel dot von has a vrient oud here in der desert land. Bood I am gonzern apout you, mein vrient. You haf peen very pad. You do look sehr krank; unt you zay you haf tone padly. I am moch gonzern." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've been very unlucky," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zo I am zorry. Bood vy do you not dry somedings else? Hund vor skins or vor iffory? I puy dem all. Und not dry do keep den ostridge-bird in dem gage, bood go und zhoot him, und zell die vedders do me. Or der is anodder dings. Hi! You bube: did you dell den bruders apout den diamonts?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, I told him, said Dyke sadly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo! Den tunder! what vor you no gom und vetch me und mine old vomans? Die frau gom und vrighten avay das vevers. She is vonterful old vomans. She make you like to be ill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was all alone, and couldn't leave him, said Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was afraid he would die if I did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ja, zo. You vas quite right, mein young vrient Van Dyke. You are a goot poy, unt I loaf you. Zhake mein hant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und zo die pirts do nod get on?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, in spite of all our care," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! vot ist das? cried the old man, looking sharply round, as his hat was snatched off by the long-necked bird which had been inspecting it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You vill gif dot pack to me, shdupit. Id ist nod goot do eat, und I am sure id vould not vid your shdupid liddle het.--Dank you, bube, he continued, as Duke rescued and returned the hat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eh? you dink it goot. Vell, it vas a goot hat; bud you go avay und schvallow shdones, und make vedders for me to puy. Ach! dey are vonny pirts, Van Dyke. Und zo dey all go die?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We lost a great many through the Kaffir boy we had," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? He did not give them do eat?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We saw that the birds had enough to eat, said Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Dot vas nod goot. Shdones are goot for die pirts to schvallow, bud nod for outside den het. I dink, mein younger vrient, I should haf knog dot shentleman's het outside mit a shdone, und zay do him, `You go avay, und neffer gom here again, or I zhall bepper your black shkin mid small shot.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what Dyke did do," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Ach! he is a vine poy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hah! sighed the old man as he sank upon a stool in the house." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now I zhall shmoke mein bibe, und den go do mein wagon und haf a big long schleep, vor I am dire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Emzon, mein vrient, I am zorry to zee you veak und krank, und I am zorry do zee your varm, und I should not be a goot vrient if I did not dell you die truth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All dese has been a misdake. You dake goot advice, mein vrient. You led die long-legged pirts roon vere dey like, und you go ant look for diamonts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am no diamond hunter. It would not be fair for my brother, either. I have made up my mind what to do. I am weak and ill, and I shall clear off and go back home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nein, nein. Dot is pecause you are krank. Bube, you make your bruder quite vell und dry again. Dot is der vay. You shall nod go home to your alt beobles und say, `Ve are gom pack like die pad shillings. No goot ad all.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what I say, cried Dyke eagerly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want to hunt for diamonds, and collect feathers, and skins, and ivory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goot! Und gom und shell all to alt Oom Morgenstern." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say: help me to make my brother think as I do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of goorse I will, bube; I know, said the old man, winking his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ist pecause he has got das vevers in his pones; bud I haf in mein wagon zix boddles of vizzick to vrighten avay all dot. I zhall give him all die boddles, und I shall bud indo each zom quinines. Id ist pord wein, und he vill dake two glass, effery day, und fery zoon he vill laugh ad dem vevers und zay: `Hi! Van Dyke, get on your horse and go mit me to get iffory, und vedders, und skins, und diamonts, till we haf got a load, und den we vill go und shell dem to alt Oom Morgenstern--do dem alt ooncle, as you gall him.'--Vot haf you got dere, bube?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two or three of the ostrich skulls that I found with the marks made in them by the Kaffir with a stone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zo! said the old man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, und negs time you see dot Kaffir poy you make zome blace like dot upon der dop of his het. Und vot else have you there?--any dings to zell me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no; only a few curiosities I picked up. Look! I took these all out of the gizzard of an old cock ostrich we were obliged to kill, because he broke his leg." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! Mein cracious!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You wouldn't have thought it. And here's a great piece of rusty iron that he had swallowed too; I picked it out when I had lost a knife, and thought he had swallowed it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mein cracious!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "One would have thought it would kill them to swallow things like that, but they're rare birds, Herr Morgenstern; they'll try and swallow anything, even straw-hats." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mein cracious, yes! cried the old man again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und so, bube, you did vind all dose--dose dings in dem gizzard ov dot pirt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, all of them. I've got another bowlful that I picked up myself. There are a good many about here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You vill let me loog ad dem, mein younger vrient?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach, zo! Mein cracious! cried the old man; then, with his voice trembling:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Und zo there are blendy of dose shdones apout here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I've often seen the ostriches pick them up and swallow them. I suppose it's because they are bright." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I suppose it ist pecause they are zo bright," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going to bed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, mein younger vrient, nod yed. I haf somedings to zay to your bruder," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yoseph Emzon, he said, in a deeply moved voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like you when you virst game into dese barts, und I zay dot man is a shentleman; I loaf him, unt den bube, his bruder. Now I gom here und vind you ill, my heart ist zore. I remember, doo, you zay I vas honest man, ant I dank den Lord I am, und dot I feel dot I am, und can say do you, mein young vrient, zom beobles who know what I know now would sheat und rob you, but I vould not. I vont zom days to die, und go ver der Lord vill say, `Vell done, goot und vaithful zervant.' Yoseph Emzon, I am honest man, und I zay do you, all your droubles are over. You haf been zick, but you vill zoon be quide vell und shdrong, vor you vill not haf das sore heart, und de droubles which make do hair drop out of your het." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Morgenstern. I hope I shall soon be well enough to go," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bood you vill not go, mein vrient, cried the old man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You vill not leave here--mein cracious, no! You vill shdop und get all die ostridge you gan, und shend dem out effery day to big oop zom shdones, und den you vill dig oop der earth vor die pirts to vind more shdones, und when dey haf shvallowed all dey gan, you und der bube here vill kill dem, und empty die gizzards into die powls of water to vash dem." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, no: what nonsense!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hurray! he yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! Herr Morgenstern, is it real?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense, Yoseph Emzon? cried the old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Id is drue wisdom, as goot as der great Zolomon's. Yoseph Emzon, I gongradulade you. You haf had a hart shdruggle, but it is ofer now. Die ostridge pirts haf made you a ferry rich man, und I know dot it is right, for you vill always do goot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But--but--do I understand? Are those--those--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Joe, roared Dyke, springing at his brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no more room for despair now, old chap, for you are rich; and to think we never thought of it being so when you were so unhappy, and--and--Oh, I can't speak now. I don't care for them--only for the good they'll do to you, for they're diamonds, Joe, and there's plenty more diamonds, and all your own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, und pig vons, too, said the old trader, with a look of triumph;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mein vrient, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I go now to say mein brayer und get mein schleep. Goot-night, mein vrients, und Gott pless you both." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Asleep, young un?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Joe; I can't get off nohow. I say, am I dreaming, or is all this true?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is true, lad, quite true; and I suppose that you and I are going to be rich men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rich man and boy, Joe. I say: are you pleased?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "More thankful than pleased, Dyke, for now, when we like, we can start for home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Without feeling shamefaced and beaten, eh, Joe? Then I _am_ glad. I didn't quite know before, but I do know now; and we can make the old people at home happy, too, Joe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As far as money can make them so, little un." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo! cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What makes you say that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You called me `little un' just in your old way, and I can feel that, with all the worry and disappointment gone now, you'll be able to get well." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes: I feel as if I can get better now; not that I care for the riches for riches' sake, Dyke, but because--Are you listening, little un?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's to-morrow morning, little un." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you hear, little un? Tumble up and bustle. Let's have a comfortable meal when he joins us. Do you hear, sir? Are you going to sleep all day?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little un: are you going to get up?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter, sleepy head?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's himself again, cried Dyke excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh Joe, old man, you are better and no mistake. I haven't heard you speak like that since I went to old Morgenstern's.--Oh!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not quite awake yet. Yes I am, but I forgot that he was here, and about the diamonds; and--Joe, Joe, old chap, I don't believe precious stones ever did so much good before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't talk about them, boy, said Emson, holding his brother's hand tightly in his." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I do seem as if a terrible load had been taken off body and brain. I feel this morning that I shall see home again; and I have talked about going, but never felt that I should see it till now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then hooray for being rich! But, I say!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose any one one should come and rob us now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The first trouble that attends wealth, little un. There, we've borne sorrow and disappointment like men." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man and boy, Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like men, Dyke, for you have been a better man than I. Now then, we'll bear prosperity, please God, as patiently and well." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, of course, cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put them in your bowl, and then in the case. Now see that the breakfast is got ready. I'm far better, but I feel too weak to help." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, but you won't long, if you go on like this, cried Dyke, dressing hurriedly, and beginning to have his morning wash in the bucket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say Joe, though, let's have some luxuries, now, as soon as we can. What do you say to a wash-hand basin?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, we'll have that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And a sponge? Here, I say: I wonder whether old Morningstar has got any sponges: we'll buy one. New boots, too: mine are getting like Paddy's ride in the sedan-chair; I'm on the ground." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All in good time, little un; all in good time: the first thing now is breakfast for our good old visitor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, we'll have another spoonful of coffee in the pot this morning, Joe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach ten! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sure he's better," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und he vill zoon be guite himselfs again. I zee you half been do mein oxen, Van Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, I had a look at them; they were feeding well." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ja; die poys dell me zo. Now I go do ask you do let me shday dill do-morrow, und den die peasts vill pe rested, und I go on again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't hurry, Herr Morgenstern, said Emson." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You and I must have a long talk about--about--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Die shdones? Nein, mein good vrient, you go do zay you must share zom mid me, but I zhall dake none. Look at me: I am zeventy jahrs alt, und I have blenty do leave my old vomans ven I die, zo should I dake what vill do you zo much good?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we owe everything to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nein. It ist not zo. You have work hart, und you have got your goot dimes ad last. You keep vot you haf found. I zhall dake noding bood die hant of mein vrients." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but you ought to have a good share, Herr Morgenstern," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach ten! what for you go shpeak like dot, you bube. You wand to make me gross, und get in a big passion. Tunder! No, I vill dot dake von shingle shdone. You shpeak again, I go away in a gross anger. Aha! you see, mein vrient Yoseph, I zoon zed die dot imbudend bube, who go to shpoil my breakfass. I do not wand my breakfass shpoil. You oondershtan. You say diamont again, I gall my poys, und inspan und go away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have blenty, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, really, Morgenstern." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oof! I am going to get in soch a big passion! roared the old man furiously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I gom here und vind you all down in die doomps. I gif you vizzick do make you shdrong, und I dell you you are ridge mans; und now you vill not led me haf any beace. I haf not mooch hair left upon mein het: do you vant me to dear it all oud; zo as mein old vomans zhall nod know me when I go pack?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no; but--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nod anoder vort. I am going to shmoke mein bibe.--Ah, you bube, Van Dyke, you laugh pecause I preak him last night! You dink I haf nod god anoder? Ha, ha! I haf god zigs, und one made of wood zo as he gannod preak.--Now, mein tear vrient Yoseph Emzon, led me rest und enshoy myself.--You bube, go und dell dot plack vomans do gook me a goot tinner. I zhall go und shmoke mein bibe und shdudy close long, shdupid-looking pirts, und you gan both gom und dalk do me." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "So dis vas a vavoride blace of yours, eh, bube?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; it is so nice, and moist, and cool." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ja, zo. You are nod a shtupid poy at all. Bood look here, dot vos a goot tinner: und I enshoy him mooch pecause I shall nod ged anoder dill I go pack to mein old vomans. Now I do nod dink you and der pig bruder vill shdop ferry long at Kopfontein. You will go pack to Angleland." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, some day, of course," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ja, zo. When you haf vound blenty of shdones. When you go pack, you vill nod dake dot voman?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no! Poor old Tanta Sal; we shall be sorry to leave her behind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Den you do nod go to leave her pehind. You shall gom py me to go home.--Ah, heim! mein vaterland! I zhall neffer go pack to her, bube: I am doo alt und dick. I shall go vrom here do der great vaterland--do Himmel, I hope. Bood you shall bring Tanta Sal to alt Oom Morgenstern. My alt vomans shall pe fery goot to her, und she shall gook tinners, und help. Bood she vill haf to vear more glothes. Mein alt voman vill nod led her go apout like dot." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dill we meed again, mein sohn," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose it is the German custom. It seems queer to me, but I don't think I minded it so much just then." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you thinking about, little un?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That old Morgenstern must be a very good old man. I wish he wouldn't kiss me, all the same, and make me laugh at his ways." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is only at his words and looks, Dyke. God bless him! We neither of us smile at him in our hearts." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are tired out and done up, Joe, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's get in, so that you can have some tea, and lie down and rest." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tired, little un, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've found wealth, little un, and I suppose that is good, but it seems to me like nothing compared to health and strength. One wants to have been pulled down very low to know what he is worth." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe, old chap, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I used to sit over there and sulk, and hate the hot old place and everything here, but--I don't think I shall like to leave it after all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The time for leaving has not come yet, boy, said Emson quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall see. At present it is home." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Home, little un?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes: Old England now, said the great strapping fellow six feet high." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Everything has changed, and I don't like the people who come always hanging about." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vor you see we are gedding ferry old beobles now, mein sohn, said Morgenstern;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Dyke," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is cutting the last string, little un?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, old chap, he said," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are young und shdrong, und you haf die vorlt pefore you. Mein alt vomans und I are goming nearly do der endt. I do not zay dry und do goot mit vot you dake avay, vor I know you vill. Vonce more, mein sohns--goot-pye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, old dog, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, then, for home!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "CARROTS:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it then a great mistake That Boys were ever made at all?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CARROTS:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "TELL ME A STORY" }, { "from": "human", "value": "CUCKOO CLOCK" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "GRANDMOTHER DEAR" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "ALL ZIGHT" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE BEWITCHED TONGUE" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE TWO FUNNY LITTLE TROTS" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "A YELLOW SIXPENNY, OH, HOW NICE!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "CARROTS, SHE SAID," }, { "from": "human", "value": "ARE YOU THERE?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "NOW, BE QUIET ALL OF YOU, I'M GOING TO BEGIN" }, { "from": "human", "value": "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT, MY POOR OLD MAN?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "IT IS FLOSSIE AND ME, SYBIL--DON'T YOU REMEMBER US?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "SUDDENLY A BRIGHT THOUGHT STRUCK ME, I SEIZED GIP, MY LITTLE DOG, WHO WAS ASLEEP ON THE HEARTHRUG, AND HELD HIM UP AT THE WINDOW" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "CARROTS:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how did you come to us, you dear? God thought about you, and so I am here!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel almost sure it was always" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carrots. He was too independent and sensible to be counted a baby, and he was never fond of being petted--and then, too," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Carrots" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cecil and Louise, who had pockets in all their frocks, and could play the 'March of the Men of Harlech' as a duet on the piano, were _far_ too big to be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as she called it. They were friendly and kind in an elder sisterly way, but that was quite a different sort of thing from being" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "added nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hair something like my hairs, she whispered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh nursie, dear nursie, may Floss see him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get up and let me dress you quickly, and you shall see him--no fear but that you'll see more of the poor little fellow than you care about," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only when little Floss sat down on the floor, spreading out her knees with great solemnity, and smoothing her pinafore to make a nice place for baby, and nurse laid him carefully down in the embrace of her tiny arms," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baby loves Floss," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "said nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been thinking, she said one day to Floss's mother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been thinking, ma'am, that even if you had been going to keep an under-nurse to help with baby, there would have been nothing for her to do. For the help I get from Miss Flossie is really astonishing, and Master Baby is that fond of her already, you'd hardly believe it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baby dood too, mamma," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said her mother with a little sigh," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "As for me, I love the sea, The dear old sea! Don't you?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "when they showed up sideways in layers as it were, of white and brown, and some she called" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we _might_ go down to the shore," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go down to the shore, my dear? repeated nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish you could, I'm sure, but it will be afternoon, at least, before I have a minute to spare to take you. And there's no one else to-day, for cook and Esther are both as busy as busy. Perhaps Miss Cecil and Miss Louise will take you when they have done their lessons." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't care to go with them, much, said Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she exclaimed, with sudden eagerness," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't you play in the garden at the back, instead? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your papa and mamma won't be home till late, and I am always in a terror of any harm happening while they are away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We won't let any harm happen, said Floss," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I promise, said Carrots, who had been listening with great anxiety, though he had not hitherto spoken--he was not a great talker--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I promise, nurse. I will do exactly what Floss tells me, and Floss will do exactly what I tell her, won't you, Floss? So we shall both be _kite_ good, that way, won't we?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, said nurse gravely, though she felt very much inclined to laugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What shall we play at, Carrots? said Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish it was warm enough to paddle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I'm a man, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall paddle _always_. I shall paddle in winter too. When I'm a man I won't have no nurse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Carrots, said Floss, reproachfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, replied Carrots, slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I _will_ have her, but she must let me paddle always, when I'm a man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you are a man, Carrots, said Floss, solemnly still," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you will have something better to do than paddling. Perhaps you'll be a soldier, like Jack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Killing people isn't better than paddling, retorted Carrots." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd rather be a sailor, like papa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sailors have to kill people, too, sometimes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Carrots. Then he sat silent for a few minutes, finding this new idea rather overwhelming." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Naughty people, do you mean, Floss?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Floss, unhesitatingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I don't like killing, said Carrots," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But fishermen kill fish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do they? said Carrots, looking up in her face pathetically with his gentle brown eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so sorry. I don't understand about killing, Floss. I don't like it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't either, said Floss;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Eggs, said Carrots;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But even that would be a _sort_ of killing, persisted Floss, though feeling by no means sure that she was not getting beyond her depth," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What? said Carrots," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairies?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you like, or supposing we talk about when auntie comes and brings 'Sybil.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Carrots," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like that best." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, began Floss," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Floss, that isn't nice. I won't talk about Sybil, if you make it like that, interrupted Carrots, his voice sounding as if he were going to cry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sybil isn't not any bigger than me. I wouldn't be in bed, Floss." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, dear. Never mind, darling. I won't make it like that. It was very stupid of me. No, Sybil and auntie will come just about our tea-time, and we shall be peeping along the road to see if the carriage from the station is coming, and when we hear it we'll run in, and perhaps mamma will say we may stay in the drawing-room to see them. You will have one of your new sailor suits on, Carrots, and I shall have my white piqué and blue sash, and nurse will have made the nursery tea-table look so nice--with a clean table-cloth, you know, and quite thin bread and butter, and jam, and, perhaps, eggs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't eat one, interrupted Carrots;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I won't never eat eggs. I'll keep all mine that I get to eat, in a box, till they've growed into chickens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But they're boiled when you get them, said Floss;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, never mind, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, started Floss again," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are they? said Carrots, sympathisingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I'm a man I'll buy you such a _lot_ of new dolls, Floss, and Sybil, too, if she likes dolls--does she, Floss?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know. I should think so, said Floss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When papa and mamma went to see auntie, they said Sybil was like a doll herself. I suppose she has beautiful blue eyes and long gold curls. That was a year ago; she must be bigger now, Carrots." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must get up and run about a little now. It's too cold to sit still so long, and if we get cold, nurse won't let us come out alone again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll run, Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Floss, he began, when they stopped to take breath again," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you had, dear, said Floss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd buy you one, if I had any money. But I haven't, and we couldn't ask mamma, because I know, and Floss shook her head mysteriously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know poor mamma _hasn't any money to spare_. I must think of a plan to get some." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you thinkened, Floss?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought, gravely said Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About a plan, replied Carrots. He called it" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, dear, no, said Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But when Sybil does come, that'll be real then," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, agreed Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When will you have thinkened enough, Floss? By tea-time?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know. No, I think you had better wait till to-morrow morning, and then perhaps the plan will be ready." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, said Carrots, adding, with a little sigh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not very, said Floss, consolingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Carrots, let's have one more race, and then we must go in." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what being asleep is, thought the little boy as he looked at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always go away, such a long way, when I am asleep. I wonder if Floss does." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carrots, she said, in a sleepy voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carrots, dear, what are you doing there? You'll catch cold." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I won't. May I come in 'aside you, Floss? I was only watching for you to wake; I didn't wake you, did I? said Carrots, as Floss made room for him, and he poked his cold little toes down into a nice warm place," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did so want to know if it was ready, for it's to-morrow morning now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If what's ready?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The plan for getting money." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! said Floss." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she went on after thinking for a minute," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think, went on Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it will be ready for telling you after breakfast. And if you like, you may listen to something I am going to ask nurse at breakfast, and, perhaps, that will help you to guess what the plan is." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't like you to be ill the very day after Master Jack has gone, she said anxiously (Jack had gone up to town by the night train with his father)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is Jack's going to the big school a trouble? asked Floss, opening her eyes very wide," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought they were all very glad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear, said nurse solemnly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "When I'm a man, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't go to a big school if Floss doesn't want me to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's time enough to see about that, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nurse, said Floss, suddenly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Meat, now-a-days, Miss Flossie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Could we do without it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What could we do without? continued the child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We couldn't do without bread or milk, I suppose. What could we do without that costs money?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most things do that, said nurse, who began to have a glimmering of what Floss was driving at," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then isn't there anything we could do without--without it hurting us, I mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, said nurse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I daresay there is. Once a little boy and girl I knew went without sugar in their tea for a month, and their grandmother gave them sixpence each instead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sixpence!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sixpence each," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two sixpences, that would be a shilling. Carrots, do you hear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would two sixpennies pay for two hoops?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course they would. At least I'm almost sure. I'll ask nurse. Nurse, dear, she went on in a louder voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see that it would do you any harm, said nurse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must ask your mamma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't much like to ask mamma, she said, and Carrots, who was listening so intently that he had forgotten all about his bread and milk, noticed that Floss's face grew red." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shouldn't much like to ask mamma, because, nursie, dear, it is only that we want to get money for something for ourselves, and if we told mamma, it would be like asking her to _give_ us the money. It wouldn't be any harm for us not to eat any sugar in our tea for a month, and you could keep the sugar in a packet all together, nurse, and _then_ you might tell mamma that we had saved it, and she would give us a shilling for it. It would be quite worth a shilling, wouldn't it, nurse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, said nurse," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am sure your mamma would say it was. Then she considered a little. She was one of those truly trustworthy nurses whose notions are strong on the point of everything being told to" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, nurse?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Miss Flossie, I don't think for once I shall be doing wrong in letting you have a secret. When will you begin? This is Thursday; on Saturday your mamma will give me the week's sugar--suppose you begin on Sunday? But does Master Carrots quite understand?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, said Floss, confidently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, said Carrots," }, { "from": "human", "value": "--he began to jump about with delight--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Floss and me will go to the toy-shop and buy our hoops, won't we Floss? Oh I wish it was time to go now, don't you Floss?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, dear, a month's a good while to wait, said Floss sympathisingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May we go out on the shore again by ourselves this afternoon, nurse?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it doesn't rain," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's going to rain, Floss, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sea looks cross to-day," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Floss, said Carrots, with a sigh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do get so tired when you are at lessons all the morning and I have _nucken_ to do. Can't you think of a plan for me to have something to do? Carrots' head was running on" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to tidy my drawer for me? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This isn't the regular day for tidying it, but it is in a mess, because I turned all the things upside down when I was looking for our race horses' reins yesterday. Will you put it _quite_ tidy, Carrots?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, _quite_, dear Floss, said Carrots," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll put all the dolls neat, and all the pieces, and all the sewing things. Oh, dear Floss, what nice plans you make." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had some money, he said to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would buy Floss such a most beautiful doll. I wish I had some money." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A yellow sixpenny, oh, how nice!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I could buy you a new face, poor dolly, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I had some money." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "A yellow sixpenny, oh, how nice! thought Carrots, as he seized it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if Floss knowed it was there. It would just do to buy a new doll. I _wish_ I could go to the toy-shop to buy one to surprise Floss. I won't tell Floss I've found it. I'll keep it for a secret, and some day I'll buy Floss a new doll. I'm sure Floss doesn't know--I think the fairies must have put it there." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "How nice it will be when we have our hoops, won't it, Carrots?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wouldn't you like a new doll, Floss? he said mysteriously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I would, said Floss," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the fairies sended you money to buy one, wouldn't that do?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "sound in this little garden--she meant that sweet, lazy-busy hum of bees and butterflies and all sorts of living creatures, that you never hear except in a real old-fashioned garden where there are lots of clove pinks and sweet williams and roses, roses especially, great, big cabbage roses, and dear little pink climbing roses, the kind that peep in at a cottage window to bid you" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how very sweet those old-fashioned flowers are--though" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Children should not leave about Anything that's small and bright; Lest the fairies spy it out, And fly off with it at night." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just run to the door, Carrots, dear, said Floss," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll let me know, if so be as you find it, Mrs. Hooper; you won't forget? Mrs. White was saying--Hooper was nurse's name--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll let you know, and thank you, Mrs. White, said nurse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad I happened to bring some of my own money with me too, for I should have been sorry to put you to any ill-convenience by my carelessness--though how I could have been so careless as to mislay it, I'm sure it's more than I can say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, indeed, and you so careful," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, Master Carrots, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just going to look for you. Wherever's Miss Floss? We must be quick; it's quite time we were home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell Floss," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It wasn't Floss's fault. Floss wanted _you_ to come quick, and she sended me to see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold your tongue, Master Carrots," } ]