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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boy Allies" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sylph," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wine is left behind!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good lack! quoth he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So, fair and softly!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!--Here's the house! They all at once did cry;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The dinner waits, and we are tired; Said Gilpin--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So am I!" } ]
20777
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What news? what news? your tidings tell; Tell me you must and shall-- Say why bareheaded you are come, Or why you come at all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came because your horse would come: And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is my w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This shall be yours when you bring back My husband safe and well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop thief! stop thief! a highwayman!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must be father and mother both, And uncle all in one; God knowes what will become of them, When I am dead and gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward; But if you otherwise should deal, God will your deedes reg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay here, quoth he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll bring ye bread, When I come back againe." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind yo'r e'en, an' keep yo'r noses reet i' th' wind An' then, by scent or seet, we'll leet o' summat to our mind." } ]
20777
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; It's just a ge'man-farmer, that has gone an' lost his way." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; It's just a painted jackass, that has never larnt to bray." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; They're no but little angels, so we'll leave 'em to their play." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; It's just a Lunnon Alderman, whose clothes are stole away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay; They're two poor wanderin' lunatics--come, let us get away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This huntin' doesn't pay; But we'n powler't up an' down a bit, an' had a rattlin' day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't understand these men creatures," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My, but that's a beautiful set of antlers you have!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you what it is, said Sammy Jay to Bobby Coon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I were sure that they would return next spring, it wouldn't be so bad, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's those terrible guns. I know what it is to have to watch out for them. Farmer Brown's boy used to hunt me with one of them, but he doesn't any mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope they will get through all right, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the idea of you hunting a man, replied Peter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your heart is all right, Lightfoot, but you are too timid and gentle to frighten any one. Big...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you say I couldn't frighten any one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I didn't know you could look so terribly fierce, stammered Peter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those antlers look really dangerous when you point them that way. Why--why--what ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't torn anybody's coat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then what are those rags hanging on your antlers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are what is left of the coverings of my new antle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What kind of a story are you trying to fill me up with? he demanded indignantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you mean to tell me that those are not the antlers that you have had as long as I've known you? How can anything hard like those antlers grow? And if th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you haven't told me anything about those rags hanging to your antlers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you haven't believed what I have already told you, retorted Lightfoot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like telling things to people who...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm trying to believe it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all true," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you know it is true?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because I saw Lightfoot's old antlers after they had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right! I'll believe anything that L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When they had grown to the length you now see, they began to shrink and grow hard. The knobs on the ends shrank until they became pointed. As soon as they stopped growing the blood stopped flowing up in them, and as they became hard they were no longer tender. The skin which had...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't understand these men creatures, said Peter to little Mrs. Peter, as they stared fearfully out from the dear Old Briar-patch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They seem to find pleasure, actually find pleasure, in trying to kill us. I don't understand them at al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now what is that man doing up as early as this?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha! exclaimed Sammy, and quite forgot that his stomach was empty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now who can that fellow be after so early in the morning? I wonder if he is going to the dear Old Briar-patch to look for Peter Rabbit, or if he is going to the Old Pastu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Lightfoot the Deer, sure as I live, muttered Sammy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He ought to be warned. He certainly ought to be warned. I know right where he is. I believe I'll warn him myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's coming! cried S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thief, thief, thief!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was that confounded Jay, muttered the hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lightfoot heard him and knew what it meant. I know what he has done; he has circled round so as to get behind me and get my scent. It is a clever trick, a very clever trick, but two can p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought as much, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He heard that pesky Jay and circled around so as to get my scent. I'll just cut across to my old trail and unless I am greatly mistaken, I'll find his tracks there." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, old fellow, I've out-guessed you this time, said he to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am behind you and the wind is from you to me, so that you cannot get my scent. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you're back right where you started from, behind tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only I could know if that hunter is still following, I would know better what to do, thought Lightfoot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got to find out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what I'll do. I know just what I'll do, said Lightfoot to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll find out whether or not that hunter is still following me and I'll get a little rest. Goodness knows, I need a rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's where I'll go, thought Lightfoot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is such a lonesome part of the Green Forest that I do not believe that hunter will come there. I'll just run over and make Paddy a friendly call." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Lightfoot! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are looking handsomer than ever. How are you feeling these fine autumn days?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anxious, replied Lightfoot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am fe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confound that Beaver! muttered the hunter crossly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If there was a Deer anywhere around this pond, he probably is on his way now. I'll have a look around and see if there are any signs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought as much, muttered the hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those tracks were made last night. That Deer probably was lying down somewhere near here, and I might have had a shot but for that pesky Beaver. I'll just look the land over, and then I think I'll...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's of no use for me to try to follow him, thought the hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is too dry for me to track him. He may not be so badly scared, after all. I'll just find a good place and wait." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is because he wants to kill me that he doesn't shoot at Mr. and Mrs. Quack or Bobby Coon, thought Lightfoot a little bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I ever done that he should be so anxious to kill me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, thought he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was foolish not to shoot them when I had the chance. They are too far away now, and it looks very much as if that red rascal will get one of them. I believe I'll spoil that red scamp's plans by frightening them ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sammy Jay did me a good turn, thought the hunter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thief! thief! thief!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thief! thief! thief!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That blue-coated mischief-maker isn't such a bad fellow at heart, after all, is he?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sammy Jay may be a mischief-maker, as some people say, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he, as he smoothed his feathers,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only I could make them lose it long enough for me to get a little rest, it would help," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Friend! cried the hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you see a Deer pass this way a few minutes ago? He swam across the river, and if I know anything about it he's too tired to travel far now. I've been hunting that fellow for several days, and if I ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When that Deer has become rested he'll become uneasy, thought the hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He won't stay on that man's land. He'll start for the nearest woods. I'll go up there and wait for him. I'll get that Deer if only to spite that fellow back there...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's where that Deer will head for, he decided." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There isn't any other place for him to go. All I've got to do is be patient and wait." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll fool him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He not only will let no one else harm me, but he himself will not harm me, thought Lightfoot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As long as he is near, I am safe. I'll stay right around here until the hunting season is over, then I'll swim back across the Big River to my...
19079
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid those hounds drove him out where a hunter could get a shot and kill him, or else that they tired him out and killed him themselves, thought Sammy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he were alive, somebody certainly would have seen him and nobody has, sinc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you what it is, said Sammy Jay to Bobby Coon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you what it is, said Sammy Jay to Bobby Coon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's true, Sammy, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Without Light...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll wait, thought Mr. Quack," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care anything about that stranger. I won't spend another minute looking for her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has come here to seek that beautiful stranger I have been hunting for, thought Lightfoot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has come here to try to steal her away from me. He has no right here in my Green Forest. He belongs back up on the Great Mountain from which...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is going to be excitement here when Lightfoot discovers this fellow, thought Sammy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If they ever meet, and I have a feeling that they will, there is going to be a fight worth seeing. I must pass the word around." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That stranger is nearly as big as Lightfoot, but it is very plain that he doesn't want to fight, thought Sammy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must be a coward." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll have to take a hand in this thing myself, muttered Sammy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At this rate, Lightfoot never will find that big stranger!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fight! A fight! A fight!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, replied Mrs. Lightfoot softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know all about it. You see, there were hunters on the Great Mountain. In fact, that is how I happened to come down to the Green Forest. They hunted me so up there that I did not dare stay, and I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Last of the Barons" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Calls for muscle and plenty of keep-at-it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you're going to scare me again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not for that I cry. Ah, I never shall have happiness!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, let's see about that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Klondyke in June! Hoop-la!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "cliffs rising behind it, namely, Raven Tor high above; Grey Crag beneath, with the disused millrace along its flank; and Kernel Crag, the lion-like rock over the copper mines. Dr. Gibson, the author of _The Old Man, or Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone_, writing half-a-centu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Man himself, his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wife and his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Son" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Springs, half a mile below Land Point, there is another bloomery site, marked by a tree-grown hillock. Behind these, plantations cover the site of the ancient deer park of Coniston Hall. Exactly opposite the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Springs" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the water were reduced to sea level, there would remain two small lakes, the southern measuring one mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, and having a maximum depth of 42 feet; the northern one, separated by a quarter of a mile, being only 9 feet deep...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gridiron, for it is made up of a series of bars of rock, so to say, with a long projecting" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Given unto Adam Fleming for bringing eleven dozen of charres from Conistone, for four pies 1s. 6d.;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ancient Settlements, Cemeteries, and Earthworks of Furness" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for slate) rises Blawith Knott, and beyond, at its foot where four roads meet, the Giant's Grave. The Giant's Grave can be easily reached by road; 2-1/2 miles from Woodland Station, or 4 miles (_via_ Blawith and Subberthwaite) from Lakebank. This walk, as described, is well unde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stone Rings." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kirk, a ring embankment on the brink of the gill which encloses the site on two sides, probably sepulchral, and perhaps connected with the great cairn, as there are the remains of an avenue of standing stones leading in that direction. A field near this is called" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "J. W., 1771 and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "E. D., 1817, and on the west side of the stone" }, { "from": "human", "value": "T. F., 1817" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bannasyde Cairns" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonderful Walker" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could more easily believe that the pearls are amiss, than that we Romans are wanting in 'commercial enterprise.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Man to be a corruption of the Welsh _Allt Maen_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But even if it be more reasonably explained as we have suggested, the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for a stone or ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody here calls it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as in the Saxon south, nor" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as in the Anglian north. In the twelfth century, as now, the name was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ywedallbec," }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Mary's Glen, and out upon the road opposite Yewtree House, behind which stood the famous old yew blown down in the storm of 22nd December, 1894. Turning to the right, we pass Arnside (_Arna-sidha_ or _setr_, Ami's fellside or dairy) and Oxenfell (_öxna-fell_), and soon look ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and a similar privilege on Windermere. The baron bargained that if any of the monks' men damaged his property it should be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(beside those he had just made in Low Furness)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "such as a day's work in harvest. These new farms are now known as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In Monk Coniston we find Rawlinson, Atkinson, Knipe, Bank, and Holme Grounds; and in the list of abbey" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of 1532," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Brian, and tells a tradition of a witch living opposite (where the gondola station is) who came to the monk and confessed that she had sold herself to the devil. The monk set her a penance, and promised absolution. So when the devil came to claim his own she fled up Yewda...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the abbey" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "referred to is in an agreement of 1532 to prevent" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They had" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and this sort of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is moche wood growing in Furneysfelles in the mounteynes there, as Byrk, Holey, Asshe, Ellers, Lyng, lytell short Okes, and other Undrewood, but no Tymber of any valewe; they mention also" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hasells. That there _had_ been timber is p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "William Rufus had invited many Flemings to settle as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "colonies in Cumberland and Wales, and Sir Richard's ancestor Michael had received Aldingham in Low Furness. Sir Richard's grandfather, being a younger son, had got a Cumbrian estate w...