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21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Matter, you scamp! How dare you touch the bottle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bottle--the bottle's there, as good as ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The grog is what I mea... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confound these--! Tom, you scoundrel, am I to stick here all day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, father, I don't suppose you will. I shall help you directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, why don't you do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, spin us a good yarn, father; we've nothing to do, and Jacob will like to hear you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, so I will, answered he;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire and water, of course,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After I was taken on board, the captain asked me if I would enter, and I thought that I might as well sarve the king handsomely, so I volunteered. It's always the best thing to do, when you're taken, and can't help yourself, for you are more trusted than a pressed man who is obs... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the murmur of thy lip, love, Comes sweetly unto me, As the sound of oars that dip, love, At moonlight on the sea."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The moon is up, her silver beam Shines bower, and grove, and mountain over; A flood of radiance heaven doth seem To light thee, maiden, to thy lover."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacob, how does the bluff-nob bear? on the starboard bow?"
},
{
"from": "human... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, what have you got for supper, boy? What is that frizzing in your frying-pan? Smells good, anyhow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and I expect will taste good too. However, you look after the moon, father, and leave me and the frying-pan to play our parts."
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do we go now, Jacob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Steady, and all's right; but we shall be met with the wind next reach, and had better brail up the mainsail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go, then, Tom, and help Jacob."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not guilty,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Marables--guilty or not guilty?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guilty, replied Marables--"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, John Marables, have pleaded guilty to the charges brought against you; and it has appeared, during the evidence brought out on the trial, that, although you have been a party to these nefarious transactions, you are far from being hardened in your guilt. ["
},
{
"fr... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And sweet is the dew on her lip."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Jacob, how do you like the Old Bailey? Never was in it but once in my life, and never mean to go again if I can help it; that was when Sam Bowles was tried for his life, but my evidence saved him. I'll tell you how it was. Tom, look a'ter the breakfast; a bowl of tea this ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I'll go on shore to master, and find out what's to be done next. Give me my stick, boy, and I shall crawl over the planks a little safer. A safe stool must have three legs, you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, Tom, grill these sodgers. Jacob, who is tha... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The judge said that this was not the way to try people and that Sam must hold his tongue; so the trial went on, and at first they had it all their own way. Then our turn came, and I was called up to prove what had passed, and I stated how the man was with Sam's wife, and how he,... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never yet, Jacob, have I put my feet into that which floateth on the watery element, observed he to me;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, sir, replied I, laughing at the idea which the Dominie appeared to have formed of the dangers of river navigation,"
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sarvice to you, old gentleman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is old Tom, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art thou, indeed? Jacob, thou didst not tell me that he had been curtailed of his fair proportions, and I was surprised. Art thou then ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'd be a butterfly!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, he'd be a butterfly, and I don't see why he shouldn't very soon. His legs are gone, and his wings aren't come: so he's a g... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you ne'er hear a tale Of a maid in the vale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not that I can recollect, my child,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, where have you been all your life?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My life has been emplo... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, master, we'll bail out the lobscouse. We sha'n't weigh anchor again until to-morrow morning; the wind's right in our teeth, and it will blow fresh, I'm sartain. Look how the scud's flying; so now we'll have a jolly time of it, and you shall have your allowance of grog o... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, now, master, there's a glass o' grog for you that would float a marline-spike. See if that don't warm the _cockles_ of your old heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, added Tom,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master Tom, with your leave, I'll ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There _is_ another bottle, Tom, said his father, coming out and taking his seat again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew there was. You young rascal, you don't know how you frightened me! And old Tom put the pannikin to his lips."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A can of good grog, had they swigg'd it, T'would have set them for pleasure agog, And in spite of the rules Of the schools, The old fools Would have all of them swigg'd it, And swore there was nothing like grog."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm exactly of your opin... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, Jacob, is a good dose for you; you aren't always craving after it, like Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He isn't troubled with low spirits, as I am, father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How long has that been your complaint, Tom?"
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then Polly might have answered in the words of the old song, master; but her poor heart was too full, I suppose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Howsomever, in the next minute they were both hugging and kissing, sobbing, shivering and shaking in each other's arms; and... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange, muttered the Dominie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he pull you, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, many times; and then he walked away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It appears that you have been pulled too much, sir,"
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, let us dance and sing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "FUN GROWS FAST AND FURIOUS"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, why don't you join?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truly do I not forget the songs of my youth, and of my hilarious days: yet doth the potent spirit work upon me like the god in the Cumean sybil; and I shall soon prophecy that which shall come to pass."
},
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "replied the Dominie;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For while the grog goes round, All sense of danger's drown'd, We despise it to a man; We sing a little--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sing a little,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And lau... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Foot it _rather too much_ that time, father, said young Tom, getting up the first, and laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Jacob, let's put father on his pins again; he can't rise without a purchase."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanky, my boys, thanky; now rouse up the old gentleman. I suspect we knocked the wind out of him. Hollo, there, are you hard and fast?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bricks are hard, and verily my senses are fast departing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My memory faileth me--what was the tune?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That tune was the one the old cow died of, I'm sure, replied Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, old Nosey, strike up again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nosey, ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quis multa gracillis--te puer in rosa-- Perfusis liquidis urgit odoribus. Grate, Pyrrha--sub antro?"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, then, old gentleman, tip off your grog. You've got your allowance, as I promised you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, master, you're a cup too low, said Tom, who, although in high spirits, was not at all intoxicated; indeed, as I afterwards found, he could ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all I know; and that's enough, for it won't wake up the old gentleman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ha, ha, ha--ha, ha, ha! I could never die for laughing, bawled out the Dominie, feeling for his pannikin; but this was his last effort. He stared round him."
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, boys, come and help me--Tom--none of your foolery--for your poor old father is--drunk--."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Going,--old swan-hopper--as I am--going--gone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Jacob, if you have a mind to turn in. I'm not sleepy--you shall keep the morning watch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Tom, you'd better sleep first. I'll call you at... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Jacob, my boy, had sleep enough? Not too much, I dare say; but a bout like last night don't come often, Jacob--only once in a way; now, and then I do believe it's good for my health. It's a great comfort to me, my lad, to have you on board with me, because as you never dri... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! for a soft and gentle wind, I heard a fair one cry But give to me the roaring breeze, And white waves beating high, And white waves beating high, my boys, The good ship tight and free, The world of waters is our own, And merry men are we."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six o'clock--did you say, Mrs Bately? Are the boys washed--and in the schoolroom? I will rise speedily--yet I am overcome with much heaviness. _Delapsus somnus_ ab--"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here the Dominie was silent for some time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah me! yea, and verily, I do recollect--with pain of head and more pain of heart--that which I would fain forget, which is, that I did forget myself; and indeed have forgotten all that passed t... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, now, said Tom, looking after the Dominie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I had been drunk instead of he. He does so take it to heart, poor old gentleman!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has lost his self-esteem, Tom, replied I."
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come o'er the sea, Maiden, to me, Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows, Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same wherever it goes Then come o'er the sea, Maiden, with me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See you hanged first, you underpinned old hulk!"
}... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At all events, Jacob, I shall keep you here until you are master of your work; it will be useful to you hereafter, he said to me one day;"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By-the-by, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I got what my wife calls a _remind_ in my pocket; and he pulled out of his coat-pocket a large card,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "etcetera, which card he had doubled in two by his sitting down upon it... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I recollect once when I was very near eaten alive by foxes, and that in a very singular manner. I was then mate of a Greenland ship. We had been on the fishing ground for three months, and had twelve fish on board. Findi... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do, pray, Mr Turnbull, leave _h_us to settle these matters. Get _h_up your wine; that is your department. Leave the room, Mr Turnbull, _h_if you please. Mortimer and I know what we are about, without your _h_interference."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! by the Lor... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now let's go up into my room, and we will chat while I wash my hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now this is what my wife calls fashionable. One might as well be steering through an ice-floe as try to come to an anchor here without running foul of something. It's... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Drummond, said Mr Turnbull,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Turnbull, I've got such an _'eadache_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monsieur and Madame de Tagliabue coming up."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charmee de vous voir, Madame Tom-bulle. Vous vous portez bien; n'est-ce pas?"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Lord Babbleton and Mr Smith coming up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr T, pray go down and receive his lordship. (There are two wax candles for you to light on the hall table, and you must walk up with them before his lordship,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs Turnbull, what soup have you there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord Babbleton takes soup,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame, do you soup? or do you fish?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Merci, no soup--_poisson_."
},
{
"fr... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drummond, will you take a glass of wine with me? said Mr Turnbull."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate your sour French wines. Will you take Madeira? I was on shore at Madeira once for a few hours, when I was before the mast, in the--"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "C'est superbe? said Monsieur, thrusting a truffle into his mouth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Apparemment, madame, n'aime pas la cuisine Anglaise?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "replied Mrs Turnbull."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame,... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! Mr Turnbull, I've such an 'eadache!"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I really quite forget; but, Mr Drummond, you are a judge of paintings I hear. Who do you think this is painted by? said the lady, pointing to a very inferior performance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not quite sure; but I think it is Van--Van _Daub_."
},
{... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr and Mrs T--- Sincerely hope to see Mr and Mrs Drum- Mond, to a very hum- Ble party that they in- Tend to ask their kin To, on the Saturday Of the week ensuing: When fiddles they will play, And other things be doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr and Mrs Drum- ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are to dance so gay, While the fiddlers play away."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vell, I do declare, this is a paradise!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In all but one thing, ma'am, replied Mr Turnbull, who, with his coat off, was squeezing lemons for the punch--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Jacob, my boy, glad to see you--come... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoist away, intending to be hoisting himself up to the door of the warehouse where I was presiding. Now, there was nothing unusual in this whim of old Tom's, but still he ran a very narrow chance, in consequence of an extra whim of young Tom's, who, as soon as his father was sus... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, father, I shared the danger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Tom, I know you did, replied the father;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, father, you ought to give me a drop, if it were only to _take the taste out of my mouth_."
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that, boy?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pea soup, 13, replied Tom;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Jacob, said old Tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tom's not a bit wiser than he was before--two scrapes to-day, already."
},... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if we had tumbled, father, we should have just died betwixt and between, not water enough to float us. It would have been _woolez wous parlez wous_, plump in the mud, as you say sometimes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, yes, Tom. I've a notion that I should ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've no _sarvice_ in our country, I've a notion, my old bobtail roarer, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When do you come alongside of my schooner, for tother lading with this raft of yours? Not to-night, I guess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob Faithful, I have sent for you to tell you that in consequence of your disgraceful conduct to my senior clerk, you can no longer remain under my roof. It appears that what I have been a witness to this day has been but a sequel to behaviour equally improper and impertinent;... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you nothing to say, Jacob, at last observed Mrs Drummond,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, madam, replied I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Sarah, said she: and she walked out of the room, wishing me, in a kind, soft voice, a"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob! she would have said, but before half my name was out she burst into tears, and sobbed on my shoulder. My heart was too much surcharged not to take the infection--my grief found vent, and I mingled my sobs with those of the affectionate girl. When we were more composed, I ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, replied old Tom, after I had finished my story,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't know that I have done you any harm, Jacob, and I'm sorry that Mr Drummond should suppose so. I'm fond of a drop, that's true; but I appeals to you, whether I ever force it o... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hollo! in the lighter there--I say, you _lighter boy_! were words I heard, as I was pacing the deck of the vessel in deep cogitation Tom and his father were both in the cabin; there could be no doubt but that they were addressed to me. I looked up, and perceived the grinning, st... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! do my lads, do--it will do you good, Jacob; no use moping here a whole tide. I'll take care of the 'barkey. Mind you make the boat well fast, and take the sculls into the public-house there. I'll have the supper under weigh when you come back, and then we'll have a night on'... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you're not going to take the dog. What's the use of that? I want him here to keep watch with me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pooh! father; why can't you let the poor devil have a run on shore? He wants to eat grass, I am sure, for I watched him this day or tw... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you blam'd young poachers, so I've caught you, have I? We looked up, and beheld the common-keeper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come--come along with me; we've a nice clink at Wandsworth to lock you up in. I've been looking a'rter you some time. Hand your gun h... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see what he says; now you may do as you please,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--very well--you'll come to the gallows, I see that; but I'll just go and fetch half-a-dozen men to help me, and then we'll have you both in gaol."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish the gun had been loaded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Jacob, what's come over you? Would you have fired at him? The man is only doing his duty--we have no business here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think otherwise, replied I."
},
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure we've not kept a straight course. The wind was on our starboard side, and our clothes were flaked with snow on that side, and now you see we've got it in our quarter. What the devil shall we do?"
},
{
"from... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will never do, Tom, said I, as the wind rose and roared with double fury."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we had better get into the furze, and wait till the storm is over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was that?"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's old Jerry Abershaw, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know him well, and now I know where we are. This was the case; Abershaw had, about three years before, been hung in chains on Wimbledon Common; and the unearthly sound we had heard was the creaking of... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have taken another upon tick, Jacob, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boat ahoy! is that you, lads?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, father, all's right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God! replied the old man."
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Jacob, a drop will do you good, said old Tom, filling me one of the pannikins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A'ter all, it's much better being snug here in this little cabin than shivering with fear and cold under old Abershaw's gallows; and Tom, you scamp, if... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder what your old gentleman, the Dominie, as you call him, thought, after he got on shore again, said old Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He seemed to be mighty cut up. I suppose you'll give him a hail, Jacob?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No,... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How did you manage that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Jacob, a _bull_ means putting a quart or two of water into a cask which has had spirits in it; and what with the little that may be left, and what has soaked in the wood, if you roll it and shake it well, i... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Jacob; it will do him good; his heart was heavy, and now he'll forget it all, for a little time, at all events."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well but, father, I don't like to see Jacob drunk, replied young Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not well, Jacob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not, indeed, Tom, replied I;"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think that it was taking too much last night?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's more here than a gallon of liquor would have brought about, replied old Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no--I see it all. Go to bed again, Jacob."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BOUND 'PRENTICE TO A WATERMAN"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I cannot return to Mr Drummond: that he was kind to me, and that I owe much to his kindness, I readily admit; and now that he has acknowledged his error in supposing me capable of such ingratitude, I heartily forgive him; but I cannot, and will not, receive any more fav... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Jacob, replied he,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hast had a second narrow escape, my Jacob, said he, after some preliminary observations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once again did death (_pallida mors_) hover over thy couch; but thou hast arisen, and thy fair fame is again established. When wilt thou be ab... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, said old Tom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I likes your pride after all, 'cause why, I think you have some right to be proud; and the man who only asks fair play, and no favour always will rise in this world. But look you, Jacob, there's sometimes a current ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mary, how do you get on? said Stapleton, as we ascended to the sitting-room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's young Faithful come to take up with us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, father, his bed's all ready; and I have taken so much d... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HUMAN NATURE;"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, replied he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I caught a bright glance from Mary's blue eye, and made no answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This frost will hold, I'm afraid, continued Stapleton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, he... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't exactly say when I were born, nor where, said old Stapleton, taking his pipe out of his mouth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here Stapleton paused, and took three whiffs of his pipe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I recollects when I was a litt... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, everything goes on very well for a month, when who should come home but father, which I didn't approve of, because I liked being master. So I, being a strong chap, then says, `If you be come to ill-treat my mother, I'll put you in the kennel, father. Be off to your new wom... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One night a young woman in a cloak comes down to the stairs with a bundle in her arms, and seems in a very great taking, and asks me for a boat. I hauls out of the row alongside of the yard, and hands her in. She trips as she steps in, and I catches to save her from falling, and... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, continued Stapleton, at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I married your mother, Mary, and I only hope that any man who may take a fancy to you, will not have so much trouble with his wife as I had. I thought that a'ter she were settled she would give up all... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's all right enough, said Stapleton, who had taken advantage of my reading to smoke furiously, to make up for lost time;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here old Stapleton stopped, laid down his pipe, and rested his face in his hands. Mary burst into tears. A... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Mary, don't be thinking so much; let's all go to bed. Show Jacob his room, and then come up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacob can find his own room, father, replied Mary,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go and call upon Mr Turnbull, and ax him to help us, said Stapleton, one day, pulling his last shilling out and laying it on the table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm cleaned out; but he's a good gentleman, and will lend me a trifle. In the afternoon Stapl... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By-the-by, I hear there is an ox to be roasted whole, Jacob, a little above London Bridge; suppose we go and see the fun."
}
] |
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