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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Christmas trifle for Polly. I have come home--as I was saying when that confounded twinge took me--to settle down; and I intend to make Polly my heir, and live at my ease and enjoy life. Move that leg a little, Jamsetzee."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That depends, said the gruff old smoker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; the uncomfortable old relative went on, throwing a contemptuous glance round the humble cottage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this all of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One wants a fire every day in the year in this confounded climate,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is the dear uncle this morning?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Comfortable as the weather will permit, my darling!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't uncle like to take a drive this charming morning?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No smoking."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and sitting down to talk it all over, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was n't it nice? and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I look as well as anybody? and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you did to me,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Antarctic"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, I don't believe you have heard a word of it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, I have, I cried, starting up and giving the fire a jab with the poker;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I heard every word of it, except a few at the close I was t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just the thing I needed. And,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's perfectly lovely. And,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should n't have done it. And, then, a question I never will answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ten? fifteen? five... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is intolerable. It is grotesque. And then I thought what an inadequate language the English is for compact expression. It would not answer to put upon the stone simply"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are your blackberries?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why were you gone so long?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's your pail?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I left the pail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Left the pa... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've killed a bear!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on my line. It is the practice of the country folk, whose only object is to get fish, to use a good deal of bait, sink the hook to the bottom of the pools, and wait the slow appetite of the summer trout. I tried this also. I might as well have fished in a pork barrel. It is true... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder where that road is!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better keep a cool head, my boy, or you are in for a night of it. Better listen to science than to spunk. And I resolved to heed the impartial needle. I was a little weary of the rough tramping: but it was necessary to be moving; for, with wet clothes and the night air, I ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a cat, said the guide. I felt in a moment that it was the voice of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Modern culture, says Mr. Joseph Cook in a most impressive period,--"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is all humbug: I should like to see somebody. Man, to be sure, is of very little account, and soon gets beyond his depth; but the society of the least human being is better than this gigantic indifference. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a fool you were to le... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(I am very particular about my leaders) had been made to order from a domestic animal with which I had been acquainted. The fisherman requires as good a catgut as the violinist. The interior of the house cat, it is well known, is exceedingly sensitive; but it may not be so well ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Luke to convince me that I had snatched his felt hat from his head and deposited it among the lilies. Discouraged by this, we whirled about, and paddled over to the inlet, where a little ripple was visible in the tinted light. At the very first cast I saw that the hour had co... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in one direction, will lead to water; but, in the other, it climbs the highest hills, to which the deer retires, for safety and repose, in impenetrable thickets. The hunters, in winter, find them congregated in"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; the stag will fight when he can no longer flee; and the doe will defend her young in the face of murderous enemies. The deer gets little credit for this eleventh-hour bravery. But I think that in any truly Christian condition of society the deer would not be conspicuous for co... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The person, with murder in his heart, chooses a cloudy night, seats himself, rifle in hand, in a canoe, which is noiselessly paddled by the guide, and explores the shore of the lake or the dark inlet. In the bow of the boat is a light in a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sole companion of the doe was her only child, a charming little fawn, whose brown coat was just beginning to be mottled with the beautiful spots which make this young creature as lovely as the gazelle. The buck, its father, had been that night on a long tramp across the moun... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, my child: we are pursued: we must go."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hounds are baying on my track: O white man! will you send me back?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confound it all!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knock her on the head with that paddle!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't do it! my soul, I can't do it! and he dropped the paddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, let her go!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let H. go!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm the head of this family; but, really, this is a novel case. I've nothing whatever for you. I don't know what to do. I've the feelings of a father; but you can't live on them. Let us travel."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why on airth, Mr. Thoreau, don't you live accordin' to your preachin'?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soap is a thing, he said,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was irksome to him. He had a shambling, loose-jointed gait, not unlike that of the bear: his short legs bowed out, as if they had been more in the habit of climbing trees than of walking. On land, if we may use that expression, he was something like a sailor; but, once in the ru... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greeley's Weekly Tri-bune. Old Phelps educated by the woods is a fascinating study; educated by the woods and the Tri-bune, he is a phenomenon. No one at this day can reasonably conceive exactly what this newspaper was to such a mountain valley as Keene. If it was not a Providen... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greeley in the region where he lived. Perhaps a fancied resemblance of the two men in the popular mind had something to do with this transfer of name. There is no doubt that Horace Greeley owed his vast influence in the country to his genius, nor much doubt that he owed his popu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I understand the necessity or use of reading, it is to reproduce again what has been said or proclaimed before. Hence, letters, characters, &c., are arranged in all the perfection they possibly can be, to show how certain language has been spoken by the, original author. Now,... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Phelps is a fraud. They would have said the same of Socrates. Xantippe, who never appreciated the world in which Socrates lived, thought he was lazy. Probably Socrates could cook no better than Old Phelps, and no doubt went"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of his c... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was his mountain, and he had a peculiar sense of ownership in it. In a way, it was holy ground; and he would rather no one should go on it who did not feel its sanctity. Perhaps it was a sense of some divine relation in it that made him always speak of it as"
},
{
"... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, there they were, right before the greatest view they ever saw, talkin' about the fashions!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and then added, with a sort of regretful bitterness,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was a great mind to come down, and leave... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's little Miss Opalescent!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you say Mr. Opalescent?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, she's too pretty!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Waal, there ain't no tree!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Man Hoskins (which Phelps liked to quote), when one day he suddenly slipped down a bank into a thicket, and seated himself in a wasps' nest:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hain't no busines... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems as if, he said, or rather dreamed out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Mr. Phelps, the principal charm of this place seems to be its loneliness,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he replied in gentle and lingering tones, and its nativenes... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you see that tree? indicating a maple almost denuded of leaves, which lay like a yellow garment cast at its feet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been watching that tree all the morning. There hain't been a breath of wind: but for hours the leaves have been fa... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody punch him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn him over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reason with him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, however, it might be a mouse.... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That flame, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We could not say, nor whether it is anything like the spirit of a man which is here for a little hour, and then vanishes away. Our own philosophy of the correlation of forces found no sort of favor at that elevation... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sun! and before we could gain our feet there was a patch of sky overhead as big as a farm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See! quick! The old man was dancing like a lunatic. There was a rift in the vapor at our feet, down, down, three thousand feet into the fores... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might as well die here as anywhere,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was that, Phelps?"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Boys."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better observe the unpleasant than to be blind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May the Devil fly away with me if I can see!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you hear the frogs last night? That seems to open the new world. One thinks of his childhood and its innocence, and of his first loves. It fills one with sentiment and a tender longing, this voice of the tree-toad. Man is a strange being. Deaf to the prayers of friends, to t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am infallible; I am sublime. He believes all these things. He is master of the elements. Shakespeare sends him a poem just made, and as good a poem as the man could write himself. And yet this man--he goes out of doors without his overcoat, catches cold, and is buried in three... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It bores me to die, said the journalist Carra to the headsman at the foot of the guillotine:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would like to have seen the continuation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An area of low pressure is moving from the Tortugas no... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Po' birdie! They appear to understand each other. The sparrow gets his crumb; but he knows too much to let Minnette get hold of him. Neither of these little things could take care of itself in a New-England spring not in the depths of it. This is what the father of Minnette, loo... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A True Relation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Map of Virginia, Description and Appendix,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Description of New England,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "New England's Trials,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To see bright honor sparkled all in gore."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Endymion ) in his appreciation of the value of the influence of women upon the career of a hero. In the dedication of his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have deeply hazarded myself in doing and suffering... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "helps us to fix the date of his first adventure in France. Henry published the Edict of Nantes at Paris, April 13, 1598, and on the 2d of May following, concluded the treaty of France with Philip II. at Vervins, which closed the Spanish pretensions in France. The Duc de Mercoeur... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that the historians of the county of Lincoln do not allude to it, and only devote a brief paragraph to the great John himself. Willoughby must have been a dull place to him after his adventures, but he says he was glutted with company, and retired into a woody pasture, surrounde... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Duchess of Mercury,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that a man was slain, whereupon the Britaine gave the argosy a broadside, and then his stem, and then other broadsides. A lively fight ensued, in which the Britaine lost fifteen men, and the argosy twenty, and then surrendered to save herself from sinking. The noble Britaine and... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first part, from A to L, is signified by showing and holding one linke so oft as there is letters from A to that letter you name; the other part, from M to Z, is mentioned by two lights in like manner. The end of a word is signifien by showing of three lights."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercury"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Biographie Universelle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These instruments of destruction are carefully described:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Having prepared fortie or fiftie round-bellied earthen pots, and filled them with hand Gunpowder, then covere... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The earth no sooner put on her green habit, says our knight-errant,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That to delight the ladies, who did long to see some courtlike pastime, the Lord Tubashaw did defy any captaine that had the command of a company, who durst combat with him for his head."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack Robinson,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To delude time, Smith, with so many incontradictible perswading reasons, obtained leave that the Ladies might know he was not so much enamored of their servants' heads, but if any Turke of their ranke would come to the place of combat to redeem them, should have also his, upon l... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The enemy were thus awaited,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These descriptions show that Smith could handle the pen as well as the battleaxe, and distinguish him from the more vulgar fighters of his time. The assault succeeded, but at great cost of life. The Turks se... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olumpagh, Stowell-Weisenberg, and Regall, and rewarded him by conferring upon him, according to the law of--arms, a shield of arms with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This was granted by a letter-patent, in Latin, which is dated at"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lipswicke in Misenland, and the Prince"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Passe was doubtless the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patent"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Among the slain were many Englishmen, adventurers like the valiant Captain whom Smith names, men who"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And there,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smith among the slaughtered dead bodies, and many a gasping soule with toils an... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crym-Tartars belongs to the marvels of Mandeville and other wide-eyed travelers. Smith fared very badly with the Tymor. The Tymor and his friends ate pillaw; they esteemed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he explains--put on the dead man's clothes, hid the body in the straw, filled a knapsack with corn, mounted his horse and rode away into the unknown desert, where he wandered many days before he found a way out. If we may believe Smith this wilderness was more civilized in one r... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To prevent Gilbert from embarking on this new voyage seems to have been the device of the council rather than the Queen, for she assured Gilbert of her good wishes, and desired him, on his departure, to give his picture to Raleigh for her, and she contributed to the large sums r... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Historie of Travaile into Virginia, hastily read, may have misled some writers. He speaks of an expedition southward,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie, and by Mr. Strachey. They set sail April 27, 1584, from the Thames. On the 2d of July they fell with the coast of Florida in shoal water,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the chief came on board and ate and drank merrily with the strangers. His wife and children, short of stature but well-formed and bashful, also paid them a visit. She wore a long coat of leather, with a piece of leather about her loins, around her forehead a band of white co... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plentifully freighted, to send in advance to give intelligence of his coming. Great was Grenville's chagrin, when he reached Hatorask, to find that the advice boat had arrived, and finding no colony, had departed again for England. However, he established fifteen men ("
},
{... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tobaco Logia, published in Leyden in 1626, that Tobaco took its name from a province in Yucatan, conquered by Fernando Cortez in 1519. The name Nicotiana he derives from D. Johanne Nicotino Nemansensi, of the council of Francis II., who first introduced the plant into France. At... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Governor and Assistants of the City of Ralegh in Virginia,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CROATAN. This signal, which was accompanied by no sign of distress, gave White hope that he should find his comrades at Croatan. But one mischance or another happening, his provisions being short, the expedition decided to run down to the West Indies and"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lost Colony"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, published from the manuscript by the Hakluyt Society in 1849, in which it is intimated that seven of these deserted colonists were afterwards rescued. Strachey is a first-rate authority for what he saw. He arrived in Virginia in 1610... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgrims ) is this sentence:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At Port Cotage, in our voyage up the river, we saw a savage boy, about the age of ten years, which had a head of hair of a perfect yellow, and reasonably white skin, which is a miracle amongst all savages. M... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall yet live to see it an English nation:"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation, but in his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie, writing of the time when they had been six weeks in Virginia, he says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now Captain Smith who all this time from their departure from the Canaries w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Mevis, Mona, and the Virgin Isles, says the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie they reached Powhatan on the 26th. But Captain Newport's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Relatyon agrees with Percy's, and with, Smith's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacobus, Rex, 1607, and his own name beneath, and James was proclaimed King with a great shout. Powhatan was displeased with their importunity to go further up the river, and departed with all the Indians, except the friendly Navirans, who had accompanied them from Arahatic. Nav... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This the women make and are very cleanly about it. We had parched meal, excellent good, sodd [cooked] beans, which eat as sweet as filbert kernels, in a manner, strawberries; and mulberries were shaken off the tree, dropping on our heads as we sat. He made ready a land turtle, w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There being among the gentlemen and all the company a murmur and grudge against certain proceedings and inconvenient courses [Newport] put up a petition to the Council for reformation. The Council heeded this petition, and urged to amity by Captain Newport, the company vowed fai... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation, which was written on the spot, and is much less embittered than his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie, that they were in good health and content when Newport departed, but this did not long continue, for President Wingfield and Captain Go... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Discourse of Virginia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True Relation Captain Smith is content to say that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Wingfield, having ordered the affairs in such sort that he was hated of them all, in which respect he was wit... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "so much did he differ from the Council in the management of the colony. Under date of September 7th he says that the Council demanded a larger allowance for themselves and for some of the sick, their favorites, which he declined to give without their warrants as councilors. Capt... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He reported that I do slack the service in the colony, and do nothing but tend my pot, spit, and oven; but he hath starved my son, and denied him a spoonful of beer. I have friends in England shall be revenged on him, if ever he come in London."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In all these disorders was Mr. Archer a ringleader. Meantime the Indians continued to bring in supplies, and the Council traded up and down the river for corn, and for this energy Mr. Wingfield gives credit to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Smith especially,"
}... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did alwaises give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corne, oyle, aquivite, etc., as was by the counsell proportioned: neyther was it bettered after my tyme, untill, towards th' end of March, a bisket was allowed to every working man for his breakfast, by means of the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he desired to speak privately with the President, and thereupon accused Mr. Kendall--who had been released from the pinnace when Wingfield was sent aboard--of mutiny. Read escaped. Kendall was convicted of mutiny and shot to death. In arrest of judgment he objected that the Pres... |
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