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50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've gone away, growled Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They probably left in ground-cars. There's not one in sight."
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only, said Calhoun to Murgatroyd,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come along, Murgatroyd!"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The people left the city in a hurry, he told Murgatroyd,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, demanded Calhoun,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They went east, said Calhoun presently. He traced lines with his finger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three highways go east; that's the only way they could go quickly. They hadn't been sure they'd have to go but they knew where to go when they did. So when they go... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Calling _Candida_--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The city's deserted without any sign of panic, said Calhoun,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take a report, commanded Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Deliver it to the public health o... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm remaining aground to investigate, finished Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will report further when or if it is possible. Message ends."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What about our passenger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To ... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is luxury, Murgatroyd, said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Also it's grand theft. We medical characters can't usually afford such things. Or have an excuse to steal them. But these are parlous times, so we take a chance."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said Calhoun impatiently,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you a knife?"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Allison, he said in an authoritative voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arthur Allison. I'm much obliged. Now I'll ask you to take me to Maya City."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Calhoun politely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My name is Allison, he repeated, as if there were some sort of magic in the word."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arthur Allison. No matter what's happened, I've some business to do here. Where have the people gone? I need to find them."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Interesting, he said abruptly when Tenochitlan fell behind and dwindled to a speck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very interesting! I'm interested in land. Real property, that's my business. I've a land-owning corporation on Thanet Three. I've some holdings on Dorse... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what I'm trying to find out,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I don't feel it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's going on? demanded Allison with the impatience of a very important man indeed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the beast's sick, he's sick! I've got to find--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! said Allison indignantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got business to do! In this attache case I have millions of interstellar credits, in cash, to pay down on purchases of land and factories. I ought to make some damned good deals! And I figure that th... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good, said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll go ahead. I suspect you'll do as well as we do--for a while."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something was giving Murgatroyd rhythmic muscular spasms, he said coldly."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a ground-induction fence in action, all right, said Calhoun calmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You notice? It's a cattle fence and we're running into it. If we were cattle, now, we'd turn around and move away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll see--if this thing--builds up. You know that it's the Texia--trick. A ground-induction unit set up--here. It drove people--like cattle. Now we've--run into it.--It's holding people--like cattle."
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In reason, he said coldly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought to let you take what this damned thing would give you. But--here!"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Swallow it! he commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Swallow!"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's stopped? You got through? We can go back?"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's still there. We came through. I'm Med Service. Have you got a government here? I need to talk to somebody who can give orders."
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say you got through, panted a tall man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm the planetary president. What can we do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First, listen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The thing you ran away from, said Calhoun w... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--but if it uses broadcast power, the planetary president said urgently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, said Calhoun,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just found this out, said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't know... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wouldn't get out of the car if I were you, he said in a low tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I certainly wouldn't try to buy any real property at a low price!"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going to let the thing kill me?"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought, said Calhoun conversationally,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look! I--don't understand what's happened. You talk as if I'd planned all this. I--did have advance notice of a--a research project here. But it shouldn't have held the people there for days! Something went wrong! I only believed that people would want to leave Maya. I'd only pl... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much money have you got?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much, said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--haven't done anything illegal, said Allison, with an unconvincing air of confidence,"
... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you want to put it that way--yes, he said harshly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can name your own figure. I mean it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't say a word about you, said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't n... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want to go to the landing-grid first. Somebody lead the way!"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I need you two electronics men, said Calhoun. Then he said apologetically to the others,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only figured out something on the way here. I'd believed we might have to take some drastic action, come daybreak. But now I doubt it. I do sugge... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cattle fence, said Calhoun,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We need, said Calhoun,"
}
] |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's fine! said Calhoun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn't have thought of that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cattle fence is going off, said Calhoun without triumph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The people of the city will... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoever was running the cattle fence found out their gadget wasn't working. Their lights flickered, too. They came to see what was the matter at the landing-grid. But they've seen the lighted windows. Got your blasters handy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They haven... |
50999 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your friends, said Calhoun,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They might even get it. D'you know, there's an interesting side effect of the cattle fence. It kills the plants that have kept Earth-type grasses from growing here. Wheat can be grown here now, whenever and a... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was too late in the season now for Grace to try that. He must take her to a warmer climate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then let us all go to Viamede for the winter, suggested his mother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would not that suit you, Gra... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to Viamede? When will we go?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hope to do so in the afternoon of the wedding day, carrying my pet patient along,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papa and mamma, too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are goi... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, dear child, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something about Washington, grandma, beginning with what he did when he was a very young man. I'd like to hear all you can tell us about Braddock's defeat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to tell you of our Washington and some of his deeds and experiences. He has been called the Father of his Country. Some one once gave the toast, 'Washington: Providence left him childless that his country might call him father.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Braddock--proud Englishman--despised all colonials except Franklin and Washington, but from the beginning he was pleased with them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Colonial, grandma?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear; you must remember that at tha... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All had crossed the river, and the advance body was going cheerfully up the hill, on each side of which was a ravine eight or ten feet deep, covered with trees and long grass. General Braddock had not employed any scouts. He despised Indians, colonists and their irregular kind o... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The British now received another rain of bullets, and the wood rang with the savage yells of the Indians, but they could see only smoke, except when now and then an Indian ventured from behind a tree to take a scalp. The Virginians, used to the Indian's way of fighting, dropped ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he remained silent until a few minutes before he died, when he said, 'We should better know how to deal with them another time.' They buried him before daybreak in the road and levelled his grave with the ground, lest the Indians should find and mutilate his body. The chapl... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please don't go away, grandma. Please stay beside me while I take my nap,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, darling, I won't, she said soothingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a book and am going to sit here beside you and read while you sleep... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am so glad you have come back at last, papa, mamma, and all the rest of you dear folks, she exclaimed, hastening to meet them as they alighted and came up the veranda steps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose you have bought ever so many beautiful things.... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, darling little daughter, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope you have had a pleasant time at home with grandma and Ned and cousins while papa and mamma were away?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir; grandma was telling us about Was... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope Ned will be pleased with the bracelet, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is right, daughter, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think they are both beautiful, and they cost very nearly the same."
},
{
"from": "... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chester and I are going over to Woodburn to help in the trimming of the Christmas tree, and should be happy to have your company. Will you go along?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Lu; I should like to but for leaving baby, and I won't disturb her, taking h... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dearest, I fear this has been almost too much for you, Harold said in a low aside to his betrothed when the last of the guests had bidden adieu and departed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope excitement is not going to keep you awake."
},
{
"from": "human... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not going to leave us to-night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I have a patient to visit, and must hasten, for it is growing late."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, come in as early as you can to-morrow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, papa and mamma, I presume you are about to personate old Santa Claus, and I should like to help a little,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, said her father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, father dear, I, having already had so many, many gifts f... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little Christmas gift from papa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear father! she murmured to herself low and feelingly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as she picked up a pretty knitted purse, between the meshes of which shone some bright pieces of ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, thank you! she said, with a pleased little laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have a surprise for you, but this lovely brooch quite casts it into the shade."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, what a beauty! he exclaimed in tones of pleased surp... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, dears, what shall I tell of? she asked with her own sweet smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something more of our Washington or of others of our Presidents?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, tell us about the time of our Civil War and the pic... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In 1860 he went to England, where he still made drawings. Every steamer brought letters from him and papers to the New York _News_. From England he went, that same year, to Italy to join Garibaldi."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was Garibaldi, grandma, and what d... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Washington Nast stopped at the Willard Hotel, which was Lincoln's headquarters. A feeling of shuddering horror, such as a bad dream sometimes gives us, came over him there. The men who had sworn that 'Abe Lincoln' should not take his seat were not gone. Now I will read you wh... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nast certainly did a great deal for the Union cause, said Harold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you remember, mother, what Grant said of him when asked, 'Who is the greatest single figure in civil life developed by the Civil War?'"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I shall not go over the whole sad story now. After four years, when it was all over, every loyal heart was full of joy and Lincoln's praise was on every tongue. They felt that he had saved his country and theirs, and that at the expense of great suffering to himself. But onl... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something historical?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, grandma, if you please, replied Elsie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I liked your story of Marion so much, and should be glad to hear about some other Revolutionary soldier who helped to drive a... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I must tell you of a daring feat performed by Sergeant Jasper. At the beginning of the action, the flag-staff of our fort was cut away by a ball from a British ship, and the Crescent flag of South Carolina, that waved opposite the Union flag upon the western bastion, fell ou... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He seems to have had no educational advantages, as he could neither read nor write."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, what a pity!"
}
] |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Jasper shook his head, saying that though there seemed but little encouragement to fight for his country, he could not fight against her. He stayed two or three days with his brother, hearing and seeing all that he could, then bade good-by and returned to the American camp b... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the morning of the third day the brother said to them, 'I have bad news to tell you.' 'Aye, what is it?' asked William. His brother replied that ten or a dozen prisoners had been brought in that morning, as deserters from Savannah; that they were to be sent there immediately,... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the two embraced each other and at once set about making the necessary arrangements for carrying out their desperate resolution."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how brave and kind they were! exclaimed Elsie Raymond."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Spa! What was that, grandma?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A famous spring about two miles from Savannah, where travellers often stopped for a drink of its good water,"
}
] |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how good!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what did Mrs. Jones do while that fight was going on?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the beginning of it she fainted, replied Mrs. Travilla,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how nice!"
... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What of the weather, Harold?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is cool and cloudy, he said in reply;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we can very contentedly, if mother will lead us in some Bible lessons,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, grandma, I am glad of this opportunity to ask you about what I have been reading here--this miracle of the Lord Jesus feeding so many, many folks--five thousand men, besides women and children--on only five loaves and two fishes. It couldn't have been nearly enough, except b... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are we now, uncle? Have we come down to Florida yet?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; we are now moving along down the east coast of that State, replied Dr. Harold;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, indeed, uncle!"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, if it suits you, mother, said Dr. Harold,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you a map of Florida, Harold?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes, mother, I have, he replied;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, these will be quit... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And can we see all these things when we get there--to Key West, I mean? asked Ned, adding,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it would be a good deal better--more interesting--to look at them than only at their pictures."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How soon do you think we will reach Key West?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are nearing it now, replied Harold,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I am glad to hear that! exclaimed Grace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And how soon do yo... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we will all go ashore directly, or at least pretty soon after breakfast, won't we, Harold?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly all of us, Cousin Elsie, replied Harold, giving Ned a regretful glance as he spoke;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah ha! he said with a pleased smile;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's good! cried Ned joyously;"
}
] |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you could go ashore with the rest of us, Neddie dear, said his sister in a regretful tone, taking his hand in hers and giving it an affectionate squeeze."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You poor little brother, it does seem hard that you have to miss so many of... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't bear to have you go yet, said Violet entreatingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are the only ones of my husband's children left to us, and the house will seem desolate enough to him and me till we, too, can start for Viamede. Besides, you are none of yo... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, parting is hard, he said with forced cheerfulness;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True, and I think our wedding party has been an entire success, said Violet in her usual sprightly tones;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long may you stay with us... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fun he will make for our Neddie boy will do the little chap a world of good, no doubt,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely it will, said Lucilla;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said her father;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, you naughty boy; just let me alone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, cried Ned, dropping it hastily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you were alive. But don't be scared; I'll not hurt you."
}
] |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I know; it was Cousin Ronald making the thing talk; for it can't be that it's alive after being pulled up out of the water and scraped and cleaned and all that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silly boy! Dead folks can't talk, but I can,"
},
{
"from": "hum... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh uncle, I don't want to go down yet, leaving all this good company,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you don't want to get worse, do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And mother will go with you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Father, ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are looking bright and well, daughter, he said at length."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your honeymoon seems to agree with you, though it is perhaps rather early to judge of that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been very delightful so far, p... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it is Captain Raymond's turn to be narrator now, she said with a smiling glance at him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I am inclined to be a listener to a story from you, mother, he returned pleasantly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "De Soto and his men entered the town, and were presently treacherously attacked by ten thousand of the Indians. The Spaniards resisted the attack, and a battle ensued which lasted nine hours, and resulted in the destruction of the town and the killing of six thousand Indians. Th... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the month of May, 1541, De Soto and his men reached the bank of the Mississippi River, above the mouth of the St. Francis. The men stood a long time, gazing upon it with awe and admiration, for it is one of the mightiest rivers of the world, and they were the first Europeans ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After that people poured in from Georgia, the two Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The State grew rapidly in wealth and population, so that in 1860 it was the fourth of the South in importance and the second in the amount of cotton produced."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had expected to have the co-operation of a force of French and Indians from Canada, commanded by D'Artaguette, the pride and flower of the French at the North, and some Indians from Canada, assisted by the Illinois chief Chicago, from the shore of Lake Michigan. All these cam... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Sun sat in the company's warehouse while the massacre was going on, smoking his pipe unconcernedly while his warriors were piling up the heads of the murdered Frenchmen in a pyramid at his feet, Chopart's head at its top, above all those of his officers and soldiers. A... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I just know it's you, Cousin Ronald, making fun for us all, the little boy remarked at length;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I think so, replied the doctor;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope so, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my dears, about which State do you wish to hear now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe we all want Louisiana, papa, replied his daughter Elsie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We know the story of the battle of New Orleans under General Jack... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It had, however, accomplished the settlement of New Orleans. In 1760 a war was begun between England and France, in which the former took Canada from the latter. Then a good many Canadians emigrated to Louisiana, and settled in that part of it west of the Mississippi. In 1762 Fr... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that seems like a prophecy which came true, when one thinks of Jackson's victory on the 8th of January, 1815,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, assented the captain;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I remember that was a great victory for our U... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her sex was a disappointment to Scottish hearts, yet still they loved her, and would do all in their power to protect and defend her, especially from the English King, Henry VIII., with whom they were then at war, and who was doing all in his power to get possession of the littl... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A strange life lay before that little babe. She was perhaps six years of age when taken to France as a safer place for her than Scotland. She was married early in life to the young King Francis II., but in seventeen months his death made her a widow. She left France for her own ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She called Darnley the handsomest man she had ever seen; doubtless it was his good looks she fell in love with, but a few weeks of wifehood with him showed her that his character was far less admirable than his looks; he was vain, selfish, ungrateful, took all her favors as a ma... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But she could not. The assassins rushed upon him, overturning the table with its lights and dishes. Queen Mary fainted, and Rizzio was dragged out into a narrow passageway and stabbed again and again until his shrieks were hushed in death. There is still a stain upon Holyrood's ... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Queen Mary escaped from her prison, collected a large army, and fought for the recovery of her crown and throne, but was defeated, then fled to England. But Queen Elizabeth, though her cousin, was very jealous of her, kept her imprisoned for many years, then had her beheaded."
... |
45804 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then there was a dreadful silence as she knelt down and laid her head upon the block. In another minute the chief executioner held it up in his hand, saying, 'So perish all the enemies of Queen Elizabeth.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a shame! cried Ned."
},... |
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