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22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will hire a team at Livingston, and with our own outfit, will be independent of stages and hotels--but first I must show you some Indians. We will visit Standing Rock and see the Sioux in their 'Big Sunday.' Father can meet us at Bismark after we come out."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "alternately captured or slain. His role was not only arduous--it was dangerous--dangerous and thankless, and as I saw him cheerfully volunteering to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I handed Primeau a dollar and said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Giv... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd rather go with you. I don't like being left here alone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll find the ride tiresome and the lodging rough, I fear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care, she retorted firmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks as if it were filled with dirt--or ashes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's its natural complexion, I explained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is the unpolished kind of rice. I... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there anything else I can get you, miss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like a glass of milk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mell, the lady would like some milk."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is he doing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Milking the cow, replied the boss with calmly hospitable inflection."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you'll be patient jest a few minutes----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O, don't let him ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do they really milk their cows in that way?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, when they milk them at all, I replied, inwardly filled with laughter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a matter of fact they get all their cream out of cans. Milking that c... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall return at once to the fort,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think of this place in winter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silent Eaters, a kind of bodyguard to Sitting Bull."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He lives only a few miles up... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slohan, this white man has come a long way to see you. He wishes to talk with you about the Sitting Bull and of the days of the buffalo."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come away!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slohan is mourning the death of his little ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall tell of the Sitting Bull as you have spoken,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How! How! my friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Enemy"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just sit here and look out of the window and think of the Erie Canal Boats in which you came west, or remember your ox-team in fifty-eight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, he said with a quizzical smile."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you c... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The train lands us there late at night, I said,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chalet"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First I must put together a volume of short stories to be called _The Red Pioneer_; then I shall complete a prose poem of the Sitting Bull to be called _The Silent Eaters_, and third, and most important of all, I must do a novel of reservation life, with an army officer as the a... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but it is good to be home,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With nothing to distract or weaken me I ought now, at least to justify the faith which Howells and other of my literary friends and advisers had been kind enough to declare."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Post,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamlin, said he, on the morning after my return from Montana,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you to go with me to the G. A. R. meeting in Chicago."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Comrade and made a dozen new friendships before we reached Madison. No one resented his fraternal interest. Occasionally he brought one of his acquaintances over to my seat, explaining with perfectly obvious pride tha... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've no desire to march in the ranks, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm perfectly content to sit on the fence and see the columns pass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You needn't sit on the fence, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought to be down there with my company."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In ten years he and they will all be at rest in 'fame's eternal camping ground,'"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the city--that is to say, we once more viewed the Stock Yards, the Masonic Temple and Lincoln Park. He also asked me to go with him for a sail across the Lake, but at this point I rebelled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am willing to climb tall buildings or vis... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the County Fair, which was a most important event to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother's life retains so few interests, I explained to Zulime,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spatter Work, and carefully inspecting decorated bedspreads. He tasted the prize bread, sampled the honey, and twirled the contesting apples. Nothing escaped his notice. He was as alert, and (apparently) as vitally concerned as any of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winters are very hard on old folks in our valley, I remarked to Zulime. To mother I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our absence will not be long. We'll be back in time for Thanksgiving,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till your father comes,"
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother has her ups and downs, I explained,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I predict a great success for it. It has beauty---- here he smiled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am always preaching 'beauty' to you, but you need it! You should remember that the writing which is beautiful is the writing which lasts."
},
{
"from": "human... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your mother needs you, he said, in effect, and I began to plan our return."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have a few engagements, I wrote,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must make that train,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If only we can reach her before it is too late, was my prayer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never forgive myself for leaving her. I knew she was not well,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should not have left her."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be that she is better, Zulime said, but at nine o'clock a telegram from the doctor destroyed all hope."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your mother is unconscious. Do not hope to find her alive,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only we had started a few days sooner!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and I must go down and select a burial lot, a place for your mother and me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Regular Thanksgiving weather."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have done all that a son could do,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How strange it all seems! my father exclaimed, and on his face lay such lines of dismay as I had never seen written there before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems as though I ought to go and wheel her in to dinner."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Belle"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that mother she is gone Calm she sleeps beneath the stone"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not remain here any longer. Go down to Chicago and wait for me. I'll come as soon as father feels like letting me go. I am all right now. I am at work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall stay right here until you can go with me. Father needs me more than... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mustn't stay here on my account; I can take care of myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been keeping house alone for six years out there in Dakota; I guess I can do as well here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, father, I said,"
}... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your father is ill and needs you,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems like Sunday to me. I have a feeling that mother and Zulime are away at church and that they may, at any moment, come in together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish Zuleema would come, my father said, and as if in answer to his wish, she surprised us by a... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ninety and Nine"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know but you'd be a little short on 'bones,' and Shane called out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, now, Richard, what about tables?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we'll know exactly what to do next time. All we need to do is to furnish dominoes and tables, our guests will do the rest."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another visit to Darlington will not only furnish new material for my book of Indian stories, but enable me to survey and purchase a half-section of land, I explained to my father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like Henry George we both understand the value of unear... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Worry no longer about the heat. From this hour on, every moment will be joy. You can forget the weather in Colorado."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glen Eyrie,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glen Eyrie"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come again, he said, and to me he added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must come over some day and ride my trails with me."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know where all this glory is going to land us, I warned,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not join my camping party at Sierra Blanca? We're going down there for a week or two, and I shall be very glad to have you with us. Come, and stay as long as you can. We shall probably move on to Wagon Wheel Gap later. Wagon Wheel ought to interest you."
},
{
"from":... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and referred to other differences which existed between us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Differences which do not in the least interfere with our friendship, he assured Zulime."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your husband, for example, doesn't believe ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It contains nearly seven hundred thousand acres, Ehrich explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think of being proprietor of one-half of Sierra Blanca? I said to Morton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has any individual a right to such a privilege?"
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't Mrs. Garland come?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She had an engagement or two that prevented her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! She must come down, commanded the General."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Telegraph her at once ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nomad,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This being married to a poor novelist isn't so bad after all, I remarked with an air of self-congratulation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True, our rewards come without reason, but they sometimes rhyme with joy and pride."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is what it means to be the wife of an unpopular novelist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not complaining. It's fun,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a good opportunity to go into the management of a rubber plantation, he explained,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wyndygoul"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better make it eight hundred, I wrote, and so, in my triumph, I led Zulime to Vantine's and there purchased for her a carved gold ring set with three rose diamonds, the handsomest present I had ever dared to buy for her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is to make... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is your best work so far, he wrote me,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were gray and haggard. Mabie, Page, Hopkinson Smith, Gilder and Stedman--all were older than I had remembered them. Edward MacDowell, who was sitting beside me, remarked upon the change, and I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you and I are young only by c... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have pictured the reverse side of the pioneer, he said with a gleam of mischief in his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In your study of the Indian's case you have discovered the fact that the borderer is often the aggressor and sometimes the thief. He repeat... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Red Pioneer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lone Wolf's Old Guard, and many more of my tales of red people were secured on this trip. Several dealing with the Blackfeet and Northern Cheyennes, like"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"f... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall come here every spring,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oliver, my horse is very sick. I fear his days are numbered. Study him, do what you can for him, and if you find he cannot be cured, put him away. Don't tell me when it is done or how it is done--I don't want to know. You understand?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brown, clear and calm, with color down deep, Where his brave, proud soul seemed to lie."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lost my Ladrone, gone the wild living. I dream, but my dreaming is vain."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all right, he said at last, a grim line coming back into his mouth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's passing off. I can move, and lifting his arm he opened and shut his hand in proof of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm better than a dozen d... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you give us more _Main Traveled Roads_ stories,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Campin' through, podner, just a campin' through."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little London (as the miners called the Springs) had taken in the war. I relied on a visit to Bull Hill and Victor to furnish the Sky-town or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red-neck"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yaller Legs"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matt Kelley,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rob Raymond and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack Munroe,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am in the midst of a story which I hope will be as good as _The Captain_, but don't hurry me!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is _our_ house. Don't you like our house? Isn't it fun to have it all to ourselves?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mission furniture and its"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "we prudently practiced"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad to see you, he said cordially,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was protected by the doctor's orders, which forbade me from spending more than two minutes in Mrs. Clemens' room, but Clara, who was allowed to nurse her mother, was forced to enter upon a season of unveracity which taxed her imagination to the uttermost. She had to pretend th... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is living! The sunlight floods our tiny sitting-room whose windows look out on a blue-and-white mountainous 'scape of city roofs. We have dined and the steam is singing in our gilded radiator. The noise and bustle of the city is far away.--I foresee that I shall be able to ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am coming East. Meet me in Washington on the 21st. To this request there was but one answer:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll be there."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I've had enough, and there was a tired droop in his voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm ready to go home. I'm all tired out with 'seeing things,' and besides it's time to be getting back to my garden."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soon as I can afford it I intend to establish a home in New York."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd go further, he replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would live in Italy if I could."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is the reaso... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fine, fine! when any of us asked"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How are you to-day?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I take things as they come,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He and father will disagree, but the one is a philosopher accustomed to pioneer types and the other a man of reason and I am willing to risk their coming together if you are."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad you've come, he said simply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate to see the house standing here cold and empty. It don't seem natural or right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't do anything about the flowers, he confessed rather shamefa... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on narrow village lots,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come home with me, each man insisted,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never ride this lane again, I said as we were nearing the town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It has been a sad experience. The world of my boyhood--the world we both knew--is utterly gone. It exists only in your memory and mine. I want to get away--back to ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Services were finished, several of the women came up to me and introduced themselves. One handsome gray-haired woman said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Rosa Clinton,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay another day,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If mankind is worth continuing on this earth, I had written,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, she is already a _person_!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I do now?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is changing, but it will still be a man's world when you are grown,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down the River,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over the Hills in Legions, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nellie Wildwood,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green. Papa's a nobleman--mother's a queen,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, how is my granddaughter getting on? and upon seeing her, invariably remarked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's the very image of Belle, --and indeed she did resemble my mother. He expressed the wish which was alive in my own heart, when he said,"
},
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