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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lie down, Tom, and keep yourself quiet for a little. I'll be back as soon as I can--back with something to do you good. You won't object." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; you can do any thing you like with me. You always could." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't take it from me, he said pitifully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Elizabeth, I'm so comfortable!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sure he's a gentleman, though he has come down in the world; for, as he says, 'misery makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows, and takes the nonsense out of him.' I think so too, and if ever I get better, I don't mean to go about the country speaking against born gent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm very tired, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid to go to bed, I get such wretched nights; but I think, if I lay down in my clothes, I could go to sleep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're very good to me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I'll bid you good-by, for I ought to have been at home by now. You'll take care of yourself, Tom, and I'll come and see you again the very first hour I can be spared. And if you want me you'll send to me at once? You know where?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, she said, and knelt beside him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tom, I didn't mean to vex you. I'll try to be as good as a sister to you. I'll never forsake you as long as you live." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know you never will." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dood morning, papa," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir, if you please, might I speak with you a minute before you go out?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly, Mrs. Hand. Any thing about Master Henry? Or perhaps yourself? You want more wages? Very well. I shall be glad, in any reasonable way, to show my satisfact...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To get a patient admitted at the Consumption Hospital, is, you should be aware, no easy matter, until the building at Queen's Elm is complete. But I flatter myself I have influence. I have subscribed a deal of money. Possibly the person may be got in in time. Who did you say he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose the man is poor; you can use this for his benefit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no need, thank you, Sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Tom, poor Tom!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Coroner's inquest; jury proceeding to view the body." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! nobody particular; a young man, found dead in his bed; supposed to be a case of consumption; verdict will probably be, 'Died by the visitation of God!'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, here she is, gentlemen. This is the young woman as saw him last alive. She'll give her evidence. She'll tell you I'm not a bit to blame." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I went in, gentlemen, and I declare, upon my oath, I found him lying just as he is now, and as cold as a stone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me pass; I'm a doctor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give that young woman a chair and a glass of water, will you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Died by the visitation of God;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Found dead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor Tom, my own dear Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am too late, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, Sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elizabeth, don't you know me? What has become of my aunt Johanna?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "appearance to the extreme of shabbiness; his clothes being evidently worn as long as they could possibly hold together, and his generally depressed air, giving the effect...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are all quite happy, then? said he, at length;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't go, Sir, please, don't; not just yet. And then she added, with an earnest respectfulness that touched the heart of the poor, shabby man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you'll pardon the liberty I take. I'm only a servant, but I knew you when you were a b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Sir, would you be so kind as to tell me something about yourself? I'll not repeat any thing to your aunts, if you don't wish it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I actually live upon it! added he, with a bitter smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't run into debt; for who would trust me? And I dress in rags almost, as you see. And I get my meals how and where I can; and I sleep under the shop counter. A pretty life...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said he, in answer to a question of Elizabeth's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really am, for some things, happier than I used to be. I feel more like what I was in the old days, when I was a little chap at Stowbury. Poor old Stowbury! I often think of the pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I might advise, Mr. Leaf, I should say, save up all your money, and then go, just as you are, with an honest, bold front, right into my master's house, with the fifty pounds in your hand--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Jove, you've hit it! cried Ascott, starti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John Smith" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in him could never be hidden or lost, and he said his master treated him" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have some time to myself also. Shop shuts at nine, and I get up at 5 A. M.--bless us! what would my Aunt ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come a-begging, young man, I suppose? Wants a situation, as hundreds do, and think that I have half the clerkships in the city at my disposal, and that I am made of money besides. But it's no good, I tell you, Sir; I never give nothing to strangers, except--Here, Henry, my son, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young man, young fellow--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see you don't know me, Mr. Ascott, and it's not surprising. But I have come to repay you this-- he laid a fifty pound note down on the table." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Also, to thank you ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Hand, you had better take Master Henry up stairs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to ask you if you have any message for Liverpool. I go there to-morrow on business for Mr. Ascott, and afterward I shall probably go and see my aunts. He faltered a moment, but quickly shook the emotion off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, I shall ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Tom, said she to herself, thinking of Ascott Leaf, and how happy he had looked, and how happy his aunts would be to-morrow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Tom would be glad too, if he knew all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mammy Lizzie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, boy. Come, Pasha," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So-o-o! There, me b'y. Aisy wid ye. So-o-o!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proud, stuck-up things," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reddy. That was what the rest of the men in blue coats called him. Skipper noticed that he had red hair and concluded that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reddy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whoa, boy, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gid a-a-ap. Here they said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Halt and" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reddy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oho! You will, eh? thought Skipper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well now, we'll see about that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just as though that little roan wasn't scared enough already," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reddy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure an' it's app'arin' before all the swells in town you'll be, me b'y. Phat do ye think of that, eh? An' mebbe ye'll be gettin' a blue ribbon, Skipper, me lad; an' mebbe Mr. Patrick Martin will have a roundsman's berth an' chevrons on his sleeves afore the year's out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How perfectly wonderful! as well as for pretty nurse-maids who giggled and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now did you ever see the likes o' that, Norah?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-by" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ten dollars." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fifteen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twenty, another man said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-five, and still another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thirty." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A-a-a-a-puls! Nice a-a-a-a-puls! A who-o-ole lot fer a quarter!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buy o-o-o-o-olt ra-a-a-a-ags! Buy o-o-o-o-olt ra-a-a-a-ags! Olt boddles! Olt copper! Olt iron! Vaste baber!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Queer? one of the men was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't say I see anything queer about it, Captain. Some old plug that's got away from a squatter; that's all I see in it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, let's have a look," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doyle, said the man, as he walked back to the wagon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The most good-fer-nothin' animal I ever wasted grain on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi-i-ish there! So-o-o! Dern yer crazy-quilt hide. Body'd think yer never see that stun afore in yer life. Gee-long a-a-ap!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoa, ye pesky fools! Whoa, dod rot ye!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rather lively pair of yours; eh, mister?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, ruther lively, assented Uncle Enoch," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lemme hold him 'till old Ajax goes by," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank ye. I'll swap him of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do better'n that by you, mister, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got a fourteen-hundred pound Vermont Morgan, sound as a dollar, only eight years old and ain't afraid o' nothin'. I'll swap him even for your skewbald." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The old party don't give you a very good send off, said the boss hostler reflectively to Calico," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, if I cut my act perhaps I can manage, but if I break my neck I hope you'll murder that fool driver," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Kate; signed yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You bet, said Mlle. Zaretti." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Next spring I go out by rail with a three topper. I'm going to do the real bareback act, too. No more broad pads and wagon shows for Kati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HI! HI! HI's! as he had never before heard, they burst into a great arena where were not only one ring but three, and about them, tier on tier as far up as one could see, the eager faces and gay clothes of a vast multitude of spectators. Calico, as you will guess, had become a f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mem-zelle Zar-ret-ti! Champ-i-on la-dy bare-back ri-der of the wor-r-r-r-ld, on her beaut-i-ful Ar-a-bian steed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ohs! and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah-h-h-hs!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zaretti, Bareback Queen of the World! On her Famous Arabian Steed Abdullah! Presented to her by the Shah of Persia!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee whilikins!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arabian steed" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all right, ma'am, I won't let on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wall, I swan to man, ef Old Jeff didn't know that air Calicker afore I did, declared Uncle Enoch, as he described the affair to Aunt Henrietta;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He beats me, Old Silver does. I git onto some new wrinkle of his every day. No; 'taint no sorter use to tell his tricks; you wouldn't believe, nor would I an' I hadn't seen with me two eyes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Silver, eh? said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I've been looking for him to give out. That's a bad leg there, a very bad leg. Send him up to the hospital in the morning, and I'll have another gray down here. It's time you had a new horse in his place."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You drivers, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, boys--it's--it's our Old Silver; jiggered if it ain't!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Silver, you old sinner! So they've put you in a blanked ash-cart, have they? Well, I'll--I'll be----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, they'd never find out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' see, his game leg's most as good as new again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a bad one, that boy is; look at them eyes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at them ears, he said, really looking at the unsightly nose-blaze." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have a circus when it comes to breakin' that critter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew it! said Farmer Perkins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Knew it the minute I see them ears. He's a vicious brute, that colt, but we'll tame him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come coltie, nice coltie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you damned ugly little brute, I've got you! [Jerk] Blast your wicked hide! [Slash] You will, will you? [Yank] I'll larn you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and it stuck. He even figured in the newspaper dispatches." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blue Blazes, the Michigan Man-Killer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Ugliest Horse Alive," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alpena's Equine Outlaw" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out for him, warned the steam-boat man;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I've got a little job that'll soon take the cussedness out of him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ged-a-a-ap!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ellen B. gets under way inside of a half hour, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you want your blankety-blanked horse you've got that much time to take him away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I stand on my rights, replied the horse-owner."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I showed up at home my stepfather was tearing mad. He licked me good and had me sent to the reform school. I ran away from there after a while and struck the Perkins farm. That's where I got to know Blue Blazes. After my row with Perkins I drifted about a lot until I got wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was enough for me. I had a talk with the president of the company. 'If you can locate that swamp, young man,' says he, 'and it's got in it what you say it has, I'll help you to make your fortune." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, he don't seem to like other men much, and he did lay up one or two of my hostlers before I understood him. You see --here Mr. Lafe, furniture magnate, flushed consciously--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't have any but red-headed men--red-headed like...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll show 'em what we can do in Indiana," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, the red-faced auctioneer had shouted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, me bye, come ahn!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About three weeks on the farm will fix 'em all right, I guess; but I should advise you to chuck that new driver out of the window; he's too expensive for us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See here, Doyle, if you want to go up there just say so and I'll send you as car hostler with the next batch. I'll give you a note to the farm superintendent. Guess he'll let you hang around for a week or so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go up as hostler, said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How far is it by road?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, two hundred miles or so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not let me take Chieftain down that way? It'd be cheaper'n shippin' him, an' do him good." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Chieftain, me bye, I'll be lavin' ye for a spell. But I'll have yer old stall ready against yer comin' back. Good-by, laddie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hav goan bak to the sitty P S chefetun warnted to goe so I tuk him. Tim Doyle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye would, eh? A whole hundred dollars! Tim would answer with fine sarcasm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, wouldn't that be too much, don't ye think? My, my, what a generous mon it is! G'wan, Chieftain, er Mister Car-na-gy here'll be after givin' us a lib'ry." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Tim he's out on the truck with his old team. Tim don't have to drive nowadays, you know. Brother of his that was in the contractin' business died about three months ago an' left Tim quite a pile. Tim, he says he guesses the money won't take no hurt in the bank and that some...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll sail over in the dory Monday afternoon, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cap'n Bean, replied the rotund Stashia," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wha-a-at!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ever been married, Cap'n Bean?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stashia, I give in about coming here to marry you; that seems no more than fair. But I'll come in a dory and you'll go back in a dory." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you needn't come at all, Cap'n Bastabol Bean." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in time does he want anyway, Jed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wants to git acquainted, that's all, Cap'n. Mighty knowin' hoss, he is. Now some hosses don't take notice of anything. They're jest naturally dumb. Then agin you'll find hosses that seem to know ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he has got some good lines, as you say, though you wouldn't hardly call him clipper built. Not much sheer for'ard an' a leetle too much aft, eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I s'pose he's all right, quickly added the Captain." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's the hoss for, Cap'n?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose you won't have to do much cookin' after Stashia comes; but you'll still be mate, Lank, and there'll be plenty to keep you busy on the P'int." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't ship for no hostler, Cap'n, an' I guess I'll make a poor fist at it, but I'll do my best," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess we'll manage him between us, Lank, cheerfully responded the Captain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I ain't got much ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lank, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here the Captain suddenly slapped his knee." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've just been struck with a notion. Lank, I'm going to see what you think of it." } ]