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22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Pioneer Wife --the paper which I had written as a memorial to my mother. In explanation of the fact that all these silver pieces bore the initials I. G., I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are to think of them as a gift from my mother. Imagine that I gave t... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Santy Claus (who found us at home in New York, rejoicing in our first baby) brought to us our first tree, and the conjunction of these happy events produced in my wife almost perfect happiness. Furthermore, Mary Isabel achieved her first laugh. I am sure of this fact, for I put ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Joys of the Trail, and it pleased me to be introduced as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Representative of the West. West Point received me in this capacity, and I also read at one of Lounsbury's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smokers at Yale, but ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iron King,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Carnegie, our host explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of you fellows ought to have saved this situation by ordering a cab."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the only man with a stovepipe hat the job was yours,"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maggie and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lily Dale and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosalie the Prairie Flower, all of which made a powerful impression on Henderson; but it was not till I sang"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Rolling St... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Martha's Fireplace,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I had Bacheller's house,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As our stay in the Old Homestead comes always during the summer, it seems a wilful extravagance to put our hard-earned dollars into an improvement which a renter would consider a nuisance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless I'm going to build a fireplace,"
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That fireplace must be built. My daughter shall not be cheated of beamed ceilings and the glory of the blazing log."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Consider the expense!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hang the expense! Consider the comfort, the beauty of... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know you had to slash into the house like that, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's like murder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you expect it to heat the house? asked Mrs. Dutcher, and Aunt Maria said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No matter, I said to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can mix mortar and sand,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the painters say were quite as we wished them to be. Privately, our bricklayer considered us--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Crazy."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how beautiful the fire would be on a day like this! exclaimed Zulime."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think it will ever be finished? I can't believe it. It's all a dream. It won't draw--or something. It's too good to be true."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will now acquire the poet's fund of sweet subconscious memories, I declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The color of all New England home-life is in that fire. Centuries of history are involved in its flickering shadows. We have put ourselves in touch with ou... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An open fire is nice to sit by, but not much good as a means of heating the house,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamlin don't mind a little expense like this chimney, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He put it in just to amuse the baby,--so he says and I believe him. He can afford it--so I'm not saying a word, in fact I like an open fire so well I'm thinking of putting o... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used to eat anything at any time, Lottridge explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just one such meal would finish me now,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember the time I 'bushed' you over in Dunlap's meadow? To this my father scornfully replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You bushed me! I can see you, now, sitting there under that oak tree mopping your red face. I had you 'petered' before ten o'clock."
},
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Standing by life's river, deep and broad, I take my chances, ignorant but unawed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like the thought of leaving this good old earth, he confessed one afternoon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It gives me a pang every... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why struggle? Why travel, when your wife, your babe, and your hearthstone are here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once I threatened the world with fire, And thrust my fist in the face of wrong, Making my heart a sounding lyre-- Accusing the rulers of earth in song. ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were but re-enacting the experiences of innumerable other daddies,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where shall we make our winter home?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bappa, come here. I need you."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poppie, can I come in? Don't you want me?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "she was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wenona, my first born, and in spirit we were comrades. More and more she absorbed my thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poppie, I love you better than anything,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I san... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Poppie? What does it? What was that noise?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _saw_ one, Poppie! Didn't you see that little shining thing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it _must_ have been a fairy."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she should die out of this, her glorious imaginary world, she shall die happy, was my thought,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It makes me shiver,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will it come again, Poppie?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it will come once more,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-by, dear Queen!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this the Queen's room?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the Queen should come to Chicago she would live here, and I comforted myself by saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall have ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my poor Nellie Gray They have taken you away And I'll never see my darling any more"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she sobbed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't they _ever_ see her any more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can hear ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poppie, see the dead birdie!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's been here all the night and all the day, Poppie. It fell out of the tree when Eddie shooted it. Put it up in the tree again, Poppie."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whence came you? From what dusky night rose your starry eyes? Out of what unillumined void flowered your fairy face? Can it be, as some have said, that you are only an automaton, a physical reaction?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is one of your best books,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you do that again Papa will go away to New York, and she would instantly say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm doodie now papa, I'm doodie----"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have a happy childhood, I vowed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I was a little baby. She listened gravely, contrasting her ignorance at two with her wisdom at five."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was I cute, Daddy? Did you like me then?"
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She shall be our representative, the custodian of our faith."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we shall be free of colds and fever,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must come, I said to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is life or death."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your child is in the last stages of diphtheria. I will do what I can for her but she should have had the antitoxin five days ago."
},
{
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What right have men and women to bring exquisite souls like this into a world of disease and death? Why maintain the race? What purpose is subserved by keeping the endless chain of human misery lengthening on?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never again will this be a restful home for you or for me, I declared to my daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Its shadow is now an enemy, its isolation a menace. To my wife I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go back to the city where t... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never live in it again,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe the time has come when a successful literary and artistic club can be established and maintained."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why was it that the Boston of 1860, a city of three hundred thousand people, should have been so productive of great writers, wh... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marjorie Christmas,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marjorie Christmas"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Constance Hamlin Garland is looking over my shoulder at this moment with a sly smile. It has long been known to her that she was, for several years, very much"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Logan & Bryan,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Town house as well as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and under cover of the fact that very few of my friends had ever inspected both properties, I was able in some degree to camouflage my situation. In the city I alluded casually to"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a writer I have failed. Perhaps I can be of service as a citizen,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wead to me, wead to me!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your childhood shall be as happy as my powers will permit, I vowed once again as I looked into her uplifted face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall have only pleasant memories of me,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can science find no check upon these recurrent forms of disease? I demanded of our doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must humanity forever suffer the agonies of diphtheria and pneumonia? If so why bring children into the world?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White City, a pleasure park near us, and the second event quite as conclusive and much more exciting was the coming of the circus. These were the red letter days in her vernal calendar, and were inescapable outings, for her memory was tenacious. Each May she demanded to be taken... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will come back. Cruel as some of its memories are, this is home, I belong here, and so does Mary Isabel."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I kick for joy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as she called her berth, and for an hour she lay peering out at the moon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It follows us!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is a kindly moon. It will keep righ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is your home, daughter, you belong here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can I pick the flowers? Can I walk on the grass?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, pick all you want. You can _roll_ on the grass if you wish."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't they have rainbows in the city?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not such big beautiful double ones, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They haven't room for them in the city."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was that, Poppie? ... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Without them we might grow hungry this winter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are stars? What makes the moon spotted? What does iron come from? How do people make wall paper?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now tell us about when you were a little b... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just then Sherman and his staff came riding along, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I was camped on the upper waters of the Wisconsin."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Juanita and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kentucky Home"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cavanagh and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Winds of Destiny"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mooly"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To get into my story some part of this glory, my hero must be something of a nature lover--as many rangers are,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why concern yourself with forestry? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one wants to read about the ranger and his problems. Grapple with Chicago--or New York. That's the only way to do a 'best seller.'"
},
{
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of a milk cart. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the ice man, the snort of a six o'clock switch engine and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of a laundry wagon formed for him a pleasant morning symphony. The clatter of an elevated train was with h... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never do another book. I have finished what I started out to do, I have pictured certain broad phases of the West as I know it, and I'm done. I am out of commission."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're just tired, that's all, he insisted."
},
{
"fro... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Siwash"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't bring myself to it. I can't return, a defeated explorer."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh papa, mama is a queen and you look like a king!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I could have shared just a little of my good fortune with him,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here his trail ends. Here by the landing I wait the same oar--the slow, silent one. We each go alone--no man with another, Each into the gloom of the swift, black flood. Burt, it is hard, but here we must sever. The gray boatman waits, and you--you go first. All is dark over the... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Christmas shall be as happy as that of any millionaire,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it time, papa? Can we come now, papa? and at last when the tower of glory was alight I called back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, now you may all come."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Apple Blossom Time, a wedding present from John Ennecking glowed like a jewel in the light of the quaint electric candles which had been set in the sockets of hammered brass sconces. In short, the place had the mellow charm of a completed home, and I said to Zulime"
},
{
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems absurd to abandon this roomy, human habitation for a cramped little dwelling on a city lot."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Constance has fallen. I sprang from my bed and was standing in the middle of the room when I heard Zulime cross the floor beneath me, and a moment later she called up the stairway,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hamlin, _Fan has set the house on fire_!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why agonize over so small a thing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd better get off there; the whole house is going."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and I hurried to where they stood cowering in the door of the barn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O, papa, put it out. I don't want it to burn. _Put it out!_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I answered sadly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pull down the curtain, entreated Zulime,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're checking it! she exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is under control."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're all safe. I had the boys carry them down in blankets. You'll find them in the barn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll have to entirely rebuild. And to this a carpenter, a skilled and honest workman, agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want to see it, Mary Isabel wailed. Then she asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will it ever be home for us again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I answered with final determination."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll put it... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The children and their grandsire shall eat Thanksgiving dinner in the rebuilt dining-room, was my secret sentimental resolution."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To do that will turn a wail into a song--a disaster into a poem."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our small affairs have shut out the light of the sun, I said to father,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My poem is composed of wood and steel,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll take another month to finish the job,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, no it won't, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't take a week."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it all made new?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait and see!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it looks just as it used to!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are lights in our room!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run a... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's just as it was--only nicer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything is here--our books, the fireplace."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't it wonderful!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like it. It's much better than I expected.... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one would ever know you'd _had_ a fire!"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The current is all against us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such as Chicago now is, so it will remain during my life,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, if it doesn't get worse,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't take Zulime and the chi... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a long way out to Chicago, its Secretary wrote,"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we are to have any considerable number of our distinguished eastern authors and artists at this dinner we must make it very easy for them to travel. We should have a special train for them or at least special sleeping cars so that they can come as if in a moving club."
},
... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All trails lead to New York and there are no returning footsteps, commented Fuller."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once a writer or painter or illustrator pulls his stakes and sets out for Manhattan, Chicago sees him no more."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As there is only one London for England so there is only one New York for America."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poppie! --Mary Isabel would repeat--"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at that moment, and with a sense of my poverty and declining health, took a seat in the crowded day coach and rode all day in gloomy silence. At noon I dined on a sandwich. Dollars looked as large as dinner plates that day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your only wa... |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I do now? Shall I go back to Chicago? Or shall I go on?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I put your trunk on the 8:40 train. It is well on its way to New York."
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a fool you have been to waste years of labor on a book which nobody wants and which has put you--temporarily at least--out of conceit with fiction. Why go on? Why spend more time and money on a vain attempt to dispose of this manuscript?"
}
] |
22329 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That may be, he granted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And then--more to get rid of me than for any other reason, he added,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You might see _Collier's_. Mark Sullivan is the editor up there now; it might be that he could us... |
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