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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that it was meant to follow, but in the main, as Ainslee afterward confided to his assistant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said as he pretended to suppress a yawn," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That, he went on warming to his subject," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Classy stuff, kid, classy stuff. That one certainly had whiskers on it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey, there, Henderson, yelled the coach," }, { "from": "human", "value": "By George, what a 'whip' that fellow's got. That ball didn't rise three inches...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; the surest way of handling bunts; the quick return of the ball for the third strike before the unsuspecting batter can get" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and a dozen other features of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that in a close game might easily tu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was that? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you do it? Put over another one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, what was it? he asked;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, replied Bert," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "INSIDE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Tom, I see that you lead off in the batting order," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Tom," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ainslee seems to think that I am a good waiter, as well as a pretty f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good work, boys, he said pleasantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and with a sheepish glance at his laughing comrades, he started on his lonely run around the course while they stood and watched him. Twice he made the circuit and then rejoined his companions. The c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, fellows, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to talk to you as though you were human beings, and I want you to bring your feeble intelligence to bear, while I try to get inside your brain pans. They say that Providence watches over drunkards, fool...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, that's just the difference between dumb and brainy playing and that's what makes Ainslee so hot when he sees a bonehead stunt like that one this afternoon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose that you saw no end of that inside stuff pulled off while you wer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a dreary, misty afternoon, and, from the grandstand you could hardly see the fielders. Mike was playing right that day, and the man at the bat sent a screaming liner out in his direction. He saw at a glance that he couldn't possibly get his hands on it, but he turned arou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another funny thing I seen one time that makes me laugh whenever I think of it, continued Reddy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But when you come to 'cutting the corners' and pretending that the ball was caught when it wasn't, that isn't straight goods. It's 'slick,' all right, but it is the slickness of the crooked gambler and the three-card monte man. It's playing with marked cards and loaded dice, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I didn't; he just beat me to it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man was on second and another on third, when one of their huskiest batters came to the plate. He caught the ball squarely" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and sent it straight toward third, about two feet over Tom's head. He made a tremendous jump, reached up his glo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And to think, he said to Tom, one day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, chimed in Dick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said, while the others in the Pullman car in which they were tra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a great sport, all right, and I don't wonder it is called the national game. It's splendid exercise for every muscle of the body and every faculty of the brain. Rich or poor, great or small, everybody with a drop of sporting blood in his veins likes it, even if he can't pla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only two or three men in the world have been able to do that, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ainslee left them at New York to join his team amid a chorus of cheers from the young athletes that he had done so much to form. From now on, it was" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only give me one good pitcher, he was wont to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He liked to be the 'main squeeze,' and he had been much irritated over the way in which Bert had attracted the coach's attention, and the consequent talk on the campus regarding the" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's had too little experience yet, he mused." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I should put him in a game, he'd go up like a rocket, most likely. Them green pitchers can't be relied upon, even if he did fool Ainslee," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The youngsters will have to do some tall hustling if they expect to win from the visitors, one gray-haired man was heard to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, of course, agreed his friend," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're right, it does, acqu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You want to be mighty careful what you feed this man, he whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you can bet he won't get a hit off me, replied Winters, carelessly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've got that team eating out of my hand." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How does your arm feel to-day, Wilson? he inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you feel as though you could pitch if I happened to need you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, I think I could make out all right. Do you think you will need m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go to it, Bill. Eat 'em alive. We've got their goat now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wanted me, didn't you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, replied Reddy, in a tense voice;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--motioning toward the substitute catcher--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he commanded;" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pshaw, he thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just take it easy, kid, he advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't try to put too much stuff on the ball at first, and pitch as though we were only practising back of the clubhouse. Don't let those blamed rooters get you nervous, either. Take your time before e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One ball, called the umpire, and the captain of the visitors' team remarked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought he couldn't last. That was just a streak of 'beginner's luck,' that's all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "pitcher. As he rose to go to the plate he remarked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Watch me, now, Al, and I'll show you what it is like to swat a ball over the fence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He resolved to use his" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three strikes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, cap? he inquired, grinning wickedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That kid hasn't got your goat, has he? Where's that homer over the fence that you were alluding to a few minutes ago?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aw, shut up! retu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll win yet! We'll win yet! We'll win yet! croaked a rooter, too hoarse to yell any longer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter with Wilson? and in one vast roar came the answer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "HE'S ALL RIGHT!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't take it too hard, Wilson. Don't mind if they do hit a ball sometimes. If you try to strike each man out without fail, it makes too great a tax on your arm. Let the fielders work once in a while." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Wilson, it's up to you to hold them down, said Reddy, as the players started for their positions in the beginning of the eighth inning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you feel as though you could do it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I'll ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yah, yah! yelled a visiting rooter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all over. He's blowing up! Pitcher's got a glass arm! Yah! Yah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's enough to rattle any green pitcher, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter with you fellows, anyway? What good does it do for Wilson to hold the other team down, if you don't do any stick work to back him up? Get in there now, and see if you can't knock out a few runs. A game is never finished until the last half of the ninth inning, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Win your own game, Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strike, called the umpire, and the hostile fans yelled delightedly. The next one Bert drove out for what looked like a good hit, but it turned out to be a foul." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wilson, you have done some great work to-day, and I want to congratulate you. From now on you are one of the regular team pitchers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, sir, replied Bert," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee whiz! I'm glad I don't have to do this every day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm jiggered if I see why it should look like that. Even with the fellows' things, it isn't half as full as it was when I came from home, and it didn't cut up like that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't do a blamed thing with it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on in here, fellows, and help me get this apology for a trunk shut." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Scout" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Red Scout was sufficient to set all three tongues going at once, as, during the half-hour before they could expect the car, they recalled incidents of that most glorious and exciting summer at the camp, when the" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That certainly was a close call, said Bert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, Tom broke in," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and in his excitement Tom began forging around the room at great speed, but made a rush for the window at the sound of a familia...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is Mr. Hollis' house, the large white one just before us, said the chauffeur, and, so swiftly sped the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Red Scout" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pinch me, Bert, I'm dreaming." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, fellows. What's the matter? Hypnotized?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm proud of you, Bert, I'm proud of you! You're a hero." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How he ever came to think of that leader pipe?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What he would have done if the blanket had burned through?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Shorty summed up," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bert sure is a won...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had a son like you, Bert, I should be very proud of him to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've got to answer one more question before you go to sleep, old man. What charm did you work around that old blanket you came down on from the window so that it wou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee! he exclaimed to Tom, ruefully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's tough, all right, and no mistake, sympathized Dick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he thought to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Battery for the Maroons, Moore and Hupfel! shouted the umpire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the Blues, Winters and Hinsdale!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my boy, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He certainly does, replied Bert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye couldn't, fer a fact," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's good! that's good! yelled Reddy, dancing about on one leg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The boys are beginning to get their batting caps on now, and it won't be long before we have a string of runs longer than a Dachshund. Go to it, Blues, go to it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only we had young Wilson pitching, he thought to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would breathe a whole lot easier. However, there's no use crossing a bridge till you come to it, and I may be having all my worriment for nothin'. Somethin' tells me, though...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait until about the fourth ball that that fellow pitches, Bert had told him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, that guy's scared stiff, someone yelled from the bleachers, and the crowd laughed. It certainly did seem as though Tom had lost his nerve, and his teamma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee, Tom! ejaculated the excited and delighted shortstop." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How in time did you ever think of such a clever trick. You sure fooled that pitcher at his own game." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It wasn't my idea, it was Bert's...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hang it all, anyway, he exclaimed disgustedly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you feel, Winters? he had inquired anxiously," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aw, don't worry yourself about me, Winters had replied in a surly voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm all right. I never felt better in my life," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got 'em going! We've got 'em going!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and only one strike was registered. In consequence the batter walked leisurely to first, and as he neared Winters said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much obliged, old chap." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee, it's all over now, I'm afraid, groaned Bert to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Winters is up in the air sky high, and after their argument Reddy probably will not put Benson in, because he's cold and it would do no good. We'll be baked brown on both side...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same, he reflected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reddy might have gone further, and said that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Blues haven't got a chance for the pennant now, exulted one rooter to his friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're on the downward road now, and will stay there till the end of the season. You watch and see if they don't." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder how fast a pitcher really can throw a ball, anyway. Of course, there's no possibility of such a thing, but it certainly would be interesting, if we could measure the speed of a pitched ball, and settle the question once and for all." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But seriously, fellows, said one of the boys, John Bennett by name," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see why we couldn't do something of the kind. I shouldn't think it would be so hopeless, after all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, it's this way, he explained:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My father, as you all know, manufactures guns and rifles of all descriptions. Now, some people with a little more sense in their noodles than you poor boobs, with a sarcastic inflection," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See here, fellows! What did I tell you? I just received this letter from dad, and he says to go as far as we like. He says that he spoke of the matter to the foreman of the testing department, and he thinks our plan is feasible." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've heard some queer hunting stories, but that one was the limit. Many a man has died for less." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well, he's more t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That will just be a good crowd, said Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll leave here on the 9:21 train, and that will take us to W---- at a little after ten. We can look over the factory in the morning, and tell Mr. Bennett how to run it, --with a mischievous g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Byes will be byes, though, he grinned to himself, later on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "W----!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be gorry, yez are a wild bunch of youngsters, said the old conductor to Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, he explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It certainly is some class, John, admitted Bert;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sawkins, said Mr. Bennett," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, acquiesced Sawkins, who was the foreman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Step right this way, gentlemen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a pleasure to talk to a bunch ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See this little toy? he said, picking out a beautifully made gun from a rack on the wall." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The projectile discharged from this arm will penetrate over forty-five planks, each one seven-eighths of an inch thick. And then, look at this, --...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's nothing much, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just fooled around a little bit, and soon had this planned out. It was easy for me, because when I was a little younger I used to do a little myself in the pitching line on our local team, so I knew abo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I used to be quite some player myself when I was your age, he told Bert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, boys, he said, at the conclusion of this narrative," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come ahead, Dick; you catch for me until I warm up, will you? he said, and Dick ran to the requisite distance and donned a catcher's mitt that he had brought along for the purpose. Bert pitched him a few easy balls, and then began to work up a little speed. As he shot them to Di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'll be hanged, muttered Mr. Bennett, gazing stupidly at his glove. He soon recovered himself, however, and handed the glove back to Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've certainly got a wonderful ball there, Wilson, he said." }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These wires are so connected, explained Mr. Bennett," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "pointing to a similar contrivance nearer the other end of the testing room," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I guess I can do that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good shot!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, Bert, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think I ever saw you pitch a faster ball, even when the team has been in a tight place in the ninth inning. I'd almost swear I saw it smoke as it went ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You sent that ball at the rate of 114 feet a second, which is equivalent to about eighty-three or eighty-four miles an hour! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In other words, you could throw a ball after the Twentieth Century express traveling at its avera...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going to take a holiday and see the next big game in which you pitch, Wilson. I'm quite anxious to see you in action." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll all be glad to see you, I'm sure, returned Bert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much obliged,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just make believe I don't know a crack pitcher when I see one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say, fellows, what have you got on hand for to-day? asked Tom, as he burst into the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, said Bert, turning from a not too p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just think, Bert was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, but there's not much chance of that, Tom sighed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If old Si Perkins couldn't catch him napping, I'm afraid we can't." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goot morning, young shentlemens, he said, affably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine morning, fine morning, fine morning," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is, indeed, sir, Bert said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We stopped for a moment ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, that was some adventure, Bert exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've always wanted to see the inside of a mill, and now I've realized my heart's desire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like Herr Hoffmeyer, too, Tom said," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was sure one on you, old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Humph, Tom grunted, disgustedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see that you fellows have much to say. You haven't even caught...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that for? Dick asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have plenty of bait left, and there's no use in wasting a perfectly good fish." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Catch hold, fellows, Tom cried,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at him, look at him, fellows! Tom shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here's old Pete, the biggest pickerel in the world, the wary old codger that has defied every fisherman for miles around, and has even eluded the deadly machinations of Si Perkins. Don't s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will all be over soon, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't care so much for myself, but the girl," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bert, Bert, keep up your courage. I'm coming! cried Dick's voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be with you in a minute. Just a minute, old fellow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, take this rope, old fellow, he cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bert, dear old Bert, wake up. You're safe. You're safe. Don't you hear me, old fellow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello, fellows, he said, with the ghost of his old smile." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Came pretty near to 'shuffling off this mortal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't thank me, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm repaid a thousandfold when I see you standing there safe. It might so easily have been the other way," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Professor Davis," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, fellows, this trestle reminds me of a story I heard a little while ago. If somebody would beg me to real hard, I might be induced to tell it to you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The noose of a stout lariat was fastened around his neck, and when everything was ready he was shoved off the bridge. As the strain of his weight came on the rope, however, the knot of the noose became untied, and the Swede fell to the rushing river below. He was not hurt much, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you, Dick, Tom, and the rest of you? Are you alive yet? Here, you, get off my neck, will you, and give me a chance to breathe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank Heaven for its mercies, said he, fervently, and then," }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God's sake, if you can't get me out of here before the fire reaches me, kill me, pleaded the unfortunate prisoner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No danger of that, gasped Bert, as he swung a huge timber aside that under ordinary circumstances he would have been ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't give up! yelled Bert, frantically, as he saw some of the men release their hold and turn away, evidently despairing of accomplishing their object." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try it again! For God's sake remember you're men, and try again! It's a human life ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep it up, keep it up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing I can say will express half the gratitude I feel toward you young men, he said, smiling weakly up into the faces of the boys grouped about him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The old college has done me a whole lot of good, all through my life, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it was nothing much to do, deprecated Bert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not a bit of it, insisted the gentleman." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee, exclaimed Tom," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They sure do, agreed Dick," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only wish we had had that crane when we were trying to lift the truck up, said the trainer, who had sauntered up to the group." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How the dickens are we going to get to the game in time? he inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The service is all tied up, and it will be hours and hours before we can get there." } ]