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46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s someone waving on top of that house, several sang out; and we saw someone"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the signalman muttered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s Mr. Ford, sir, he sang out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He says, ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T.’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have got round ’em in the fog,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where’s that darned Maxim? the Skipper roared."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get it up here."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ","
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T. and his chaps came bounding up the hill, and we all roared with laughter as little Ponsonby came running after them, his eyes and mouth wide open with fright at being left behind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The other chaps will be there before ’Old Lest’, if we don’t get a move on. ’Old Lest’ ain’t going to be beaten by them,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take ground to your left, and both of you ’go’ for that confounded gun, the Skipper had roared after me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’m coming along after you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T. all right, and I shouted for him to come along and s... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rah! Rah! Rah! —and I knew that came from the _Omaha’s_ crowd, and wasn’t going to be beaten by them. Nor was more either; and though I knew that the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was not quite according to the"
}... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He’s pretty angry, sir, he told Whitmore;"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jolly hard luck after all he’s done for us, sir, I had said; but the Skipper only growled"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! he growled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You’re a soldier, aren’t you? and when I had acknowledged the soft impeachment,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! What would you do? I’m not a soldier. ’Old Lest’s’ not much good ashore except after ’b... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She’s gone daft about that man Evans,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We all saw you signalling to us this morning, Ford, on the top of that roof. You must have been under a very hot fire, eh?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess I shall be a flag officer before I’m sixty. Reckon they’ll have my picture in all the journals in the States, and maybe they’ll remember John A. Parkinson is still alive and kicking, up at Washington. They seem to have forgotten him awhile. He was"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "himself, and wasn’t looking particularly happy. Old"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T. had recognized him as the chap who’d run the show at the other island, when"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ", when we saw a little party of people approaching with a white flag waving over their heads. It was headed by a most respectable-looking old"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s Boss Evans!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chuck him out!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old man’s wasting daylight with a vengeance, he said to me, but had hardly spoken before young Ponsonby came running up—"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From the Captain, sir; you’re to carry on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drive those fellows off... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T. and I extended our people, ran down towards the paddy fields, crawled and dodged across them, and prepared for the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T. looked"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "when we met again at the top. The blighters had never giv... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buck up, old chap! Don’t look so blooming bored! and I slapped him on the back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We’ll have our work cut out in the next half-hour, when we are doing rearguard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep your beastly fists to your... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ", and came charging across the paddy fields, rushing up towards the slope in front of us, and getting round both our flanks. They thought that they’d got us in a hole, I expect, and they spared a couple of hundred fellows to sneak away to the right, behind some banks, hoping to ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T.’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was in a pretty tight corner, when old"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T. came along after us, and we faced round and walked backwards very slowly, and they didn’t like the look of our bayonets and wouldn’t charge down, though they were swarming up above us and yelling like stuck pigs. (If they had charged they would have swept clean over us.) W... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at that rotten thing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you _will_ do the V.C. act, old chap, with a rotten tailor-made sword, what can you expect?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Lest standing, with his great feet wide apart, and of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blucher squatting between them. He was watching the Chinese through his glasses, and young Ford and Ponsonby were standing close to him, looking white and nervous. He shouted out... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T.’s"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You might get your pater to give me one of his livings, I told him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m going to be... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s no one behind us, I think,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T. shouted to Whitmore."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But just look at that fog! It’s hidden the _Omaha_ since we’ve been up here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where’s t... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he grunted, and sent Parkinson and the gunboat’s brigade straight ahead, and ordered my marines and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-T.’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wat ’o! Bill, for a bit of the Gunnery Lootenant’s sucking pigs when we gets aboard,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G’s every half-minute, and that was a great help to us to keep in station. All round us I could hear the non-commissioned and petty officers singing out:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not so fast on the right! Keep up on the left! Close towards the bugle, you on the... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Close on the centre! and his bugler kept on sounding the two"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rah!—Rah!—Rah!—O!—Ma!—Ha!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Lest seemed to elbow his way along. If you’ll believe me, he still had a cigar between his teeth (Whitmore saw it, and his coxswain swears that it was even then alight). He had broken his stick over the heads of two big ruffians, and they bungled against the gun carriage, an... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ", and the coxswain piped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Officers commanding companies report to the Captain, and I groped my way across the ground, simply littered with dead bodies, and found him and Parkinson."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How’s the little lass?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE SKIPPER TOOK HER UP IN HIS ARMS"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Umph!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have seen nothing of your boats since this morning. _Omaha’s_ boats have been sent down the coast to where gunboats’ brigade originally landed, and have not come back."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to find another packet of sandwiches for me, and was very disgusted when I gave them to Sally. A strange old chap he was. I suppose that I owed my useless life to him half a dozen times that day, but he would have been offended if I’d even suggested thanking him. He had been my ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them clothes won’t be no blooming good again, sir, I’m thinkin’. Two serges and two pairs of trouses in three blessed nights! We ain’t got enough gear to turn you out proper now, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That’s all right, Grainger; we’ll be at Hong-Kong in... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you mind telling us, sir, who captured that gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As far as I remember, I told them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! they both burst out, looking at each other joyously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "B.-T. , moving in a very"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "manner, and I went over to say"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to her and give her a treat. We were the best-looking fellows in the _Vigilant_, but old"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.-... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "either, for the Chinese kept up such a persistent and annoying rifle fire, that we had to get the _Omaha_ and _Ringdove_ to shell them out of some paddy fields and clumps of bamboo trees. They tried to steal round the beach and cut a few of us off, and just as we were getting"
... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear young gentlemen, I told them, when we’d stopped a bit of a rush,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To tell the truth, soldier, he whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’m as hungry as a hunter; tinned milk and soda water ain’t very filling, and Mayhew won’t let me have anything else, and precious little of that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Lest’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We even walked about the space inside the walls and counted the dead bodies."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They must have brought up a field gun;"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look there, Miller! I shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There’s a dog there running backwards and forwards; and Miller spotted it too, and I knew that it must be jolly old"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "inside, and didn’t quite know what to do, and felt very"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ", and ran towards the gun, with Miller and Mr. Ching and a lot of his men. Before we could get to it, the first lot of our people had gone off after the Chinese, who were running a... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where’s that chap Ching, and the little lass and Hobbs?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pongo"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you hadn’t been such a blamed little idiot, he’d never have been shot. Umph! His little finger is worth more than all you confounded young midshipmen—umph!—put together;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pongo told m... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said, and did it up again as comfortably as he could. Miller had coiled himself up behind the wall, and was fast asleep, and so were Mr. Ching and most of his bluejackets—I would have done anything in the world for them. Old Sharpe came up to have a yarn, and cheered me up a ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pongo , because he was nearly as much an idiot as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dicky , and though he tried to buck me"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you said anything to the Gunnery Lieutenant?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G’s"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "about Ching looking as if he was walking on"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pongo and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blucher , and presently he turned round—he could see my face by the light of the fire, and I was trembling all over for him to say something—and he growled out,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven’t improved the... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They haven’t improved the look of your face, Dick!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess your marines had gone by when my boys came up, and that little fat chap was behind me—some."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I actually stood on it, sir! Didn’t you see me, Dick?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B companies fired another three volleys, and then the two bluejacket buglers sounded the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last Post"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ship’s company! Right and left turn! Quick march!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hoist the colours! the Captain said, and went below. His lips were very tightly squeezed together. No one could eat any lunch, we were all so miserable, and no one even heard Captain Mar... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last Post"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They’ve got that gun all burnished and polished, just abaft the mainmast—I saw it;"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dear, they seem to know what they are talking about. They can’t be all swindlers, or else the editors wouldn’t print their advertisements, so I’ll just try, this once."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher’s"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good news from home, I hope, Ford? Here’s something for you from my girl Nan, and he gave me a folded-up piece of notepaper with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dick"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arm ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Mayhew! I told him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’m not a baby; tell me; but he only said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait for three days, and eat nothing till then. I cannot tell you before."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hungry still, Commander?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You’ll live to enjoy your pension all right, Truscott,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! I’ve kept back the _Ringdove_ till I heard about you from Mayhew this morning. Going to send her up to Shanghai at once. I’ll be off and write a letter to your missus. Umph! You want shaving—badly;"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Lest was extraordinarily gentle. He felt, I am sure, that he was leaving them in the lurch, with all this work still in front of them, and thought it was hardly"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Umph! But for you, Ching, we should never have done it, never have resc... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! There goes a confounded fine chap"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blucher"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! the Skipper growled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had enough evidence to hang him a dozen times; but he helped our people in that house, and Ford and those two fellows would have been scuppered but for him, so I sent him ashore at night, gave him a ten-pound ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Umph! I know the fat little beggar’s got no right to it. Thought he had when he asked me for it, so gave it him, and let him take it away; but when ’Old Lest’s’ given anything away—umph!—he don’t go back on his word. It belongs to me, I suppose, and I can do what I like with it,... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What’s the game?"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "always had his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "bill stopped for three days, so could not get any sardines or pickles from Ah Man, we were all out in a jiffy, and left Mr. Langham, Mr. Hamilton the big Engineer Sub, and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ringdoves would hear about it as well; but he went aboard the _Ringdove_ in the morning to see the navigator, who was a pal of his (except for the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had a good look at that gun, you chaps, without pretending to do so. The wheels are sim... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sha’n’t be there when he comes,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The _Ringdove_ has her dinghy made fast to the starboard boom to-night, so you’ll have to pull alongside her port gangway as ’gingerly’ as ever you can, get aboard and bring back the gun, and the carriage too, if you’ve got time. The trunnions of the gun are only secured in the ... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dicky , who was quite all right now, wasn’t to go, because he was too excitable, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pongo"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going for a little exercise, Trevelyan; and heard him reply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, good luck! I’ve got everything ready to hoist it in."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "light for’ard, and a very faint glimmer amidships, where the quartermaster ought to be. Presently five bells were struck aboard the _Vigilant_ and aboard the old _Tamar_ astern of us, and a few moments afterwards we saw a light moving for’ard aboard the _Ringdove_, her funny,"
... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Port gangway!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A.P. and Webster disappeared up the gangway in their bare feet, with a tackle the Bo’s’n had given us. We could hear them very softly getting the gun out of the carriage, and the Chinese kind of yells were still going on, only more gently, and we heard the quartermaster sing out... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A.P."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand clear! and dropped the whole thing into the boat on top of the gun (I don’t know how it was that it didn’t break anybody), and they all jumped down in a heap, making a most fearful row. Jones slipped the boat rope for’ard, and we slid astern just as Mr. Rashleigh ran up to... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A.P."
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A jolly strong tide’s running, and it was about as much as I could do to get here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jim! Jim!"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A.P."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He’ll probably have drifted down with the tide, and will try and get hold of a buoy,"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pongo , I think it was—said to Mr. Trevelyan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jolly to have the gun all right, sir, and the carriage. Isn’t it, sir? And Mr. Trevelyan answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What gun? I don’t know anything about a gun. I... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She’s calling us up, sir! the signalman sang out; and oh! it was such a relief, for she signalled,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Rawlings is aboard"
}
] |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it was all U P, Mr. Langham said, and changed into dry things; and then we all had a sardine supper in the gunroom, and most of the ward-room officers came down too, and we were awfully happy and contented, and Jim and Dicky and I"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
46500 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Worth the risk, every time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But won’t there be a glorious row to-morrow?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Lest"
}
] |
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