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13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad I came! she told herself with enthusiasm as she prepared to retire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a delightful old place it is! And Uncle Abram--why, he's a _dear_! Daddy-prof was not half enthusiastic enough about the Cape Cod folk. It has been a dist... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that Tapp boy came back a second time! Some fisherman's son, I suppose. But exceedingly nice looking!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Cap'n Abe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he told her behind the thin panel of the door."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't disturb yourself. Cap'n Amazon's come an' I'm off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're what?"
},
{
"... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bye, Am'zon. Don't take no wooden money. I'm off."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Actress, or not, muttered the son of the Salt Water Taffy King,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hey, Cap'n Abe! Those fishhooks you sold me last evening aren't what I wanted--and there's the _Merry Andrew_ waiting out there for me now. I want----"
},
{
"from":... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter with you, young feller? Cat got your tongue?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, of all things! finally gasped Lawford."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you were Cap'n Abe. But you're not. You must be Cap'n Amazon Silt."
},
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those boxes yonder are where Cap'n Abe keeps his fishhooks. But isn't he here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's off, Cap'n Amazon replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up anchor'd and sailed 'bout soon's I come. Been ready to go quite a spell, I sh... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must be Betty Gallup, thought Louise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is nearly six. I'll go down and interview the lady who Cap'n Abe said ought to sail before the mast."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! she exclaimed again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't look much like a pirate, that's one comfort!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see by this letter Cap'n Abe left for me that you're his niece--his ha'f sister's child--name, Louise Gray... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy! he cried jovially."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So this is my niece, Louise, is it? Well, to be sure! Abe didn't overpraise you. You _be_ a pretty tidy craft."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir! he ejaculated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You look to me like one o' the tidiest craft I ever clapped eyes on. I don't scarcely see how Abe could go away and leave you. Dunno's he's got an eye for a pretty woman like me. Bless you! I been a slave to the... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I never! said Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seems quite to home, doesn't he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "looked up with topaz eyes into the face of the captain. Louise could see the cat actually stiffen with surprise. Then, with ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! cried Cap'n Amazon, with boyish relief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That don't show nothin', said Betty Gallup from the doorway. She had removed her hat and coat and was revealed now as a woman approaching seventy, her iron-gray hair twisted into a"
},
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes! she was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know Cap'n Abe's been talkin' of goin' away--the longest spell! But so suddent--'twixt night and mornin' as ye might say------"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly,"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kind of a sharp craft that, he observed, watching' Mandy cross the road."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Reminds me some o' one o' them Block Island double-enders they built purpose for sword-fishing. When you strike on to a sword-fish you are likely to want to back w... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to know Cap'n Joab Beecher, of the old _Sally Noble_. I knowed the bark well, though I never happened to clap eyes on _you_, sir. Abe give me a letter for you. Here 'tis. Said you was a good feller and might help wise me to things in the store here till I'd l'arned her ri... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm yours to command, Cap'n Silt. Land sakes! I s'pose your brother had a puffict right to go away. He'd talked about goin' enough. Where's he gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On a v'y'ge,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! Gone to sea?"
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he pointed to the very first line of the sailing list."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If Abe got there in time he like enough j'ined her crew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shipped before the mast?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, C... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you what, Abe's got the best of it! If I'd knowed I was goin' to be picked to pieces by a lot of busybodies the way I be, I'd never agreed to stay by the ship till Abe got back. No, sir! These folks around here are the beatenest I ever see."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there's plenty of Abe's duds about, he said;"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the farthest point visible in this direction was a sprawling, ornate villa with private dock and boathouses, and a small breakwater behind which floated a fleet of small craft. Louise heard the"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He must work for those people over there, Louise Grayling thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is nice looking."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning! What do you think of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is lovely! she said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Really wonderful! I suppose you have lived here so long it does not appeal to you as strongly as to the new-beholder?"
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, Ford! she shouted to the young man,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got to go up to the store, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "L'Enfant Terrible is evidently going to Paulmouth to meet the early train. Must be somebody coming."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you like the old fellow up at the store? Lawford asked, as they strolled along together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't he a curious old bird?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean my Uncle Amazon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at the slightest provocation. Many times a day he lost his temper and, as Lawford phlegmatically expressed it,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I. Tapp, the Salt Water Taffy King"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you're back at last, are you?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been waiting some time for you, dad. Hop aboard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You took your time in getting back here, responded his father, by no means mollified."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you knew I was waiting. But you had to stand an... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see, stormed I. Tapp,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you think that should discourage me, dad? Lawford put in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marian is nobody to brag of, I should say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hah! ejacul... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So! ruminated Mr. Tapp,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dorothy Johnson is a really sweet girl, dad, Lawford agreed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There! ejaculated I. Tapp."
},
{
"from": "h... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter? the girl asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you broken something--or is the canary dead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sh! warned Betty, her little brown eyes blinking rapidly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I he... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cap'n Amazon, she said to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe you must be just full of stories of adventure and wonderful happenings by sea and land. Uncle Abram said you had been everywhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been pretty nig... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "concluded Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Helped make the owners rich, and the Old Man, too. Course, I got my sheer; but a boy's sheer on a whaler them days wouldn't buy him no house and lot. So I went to sea again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not goin' to have you out there in that store for these folks to look over and pick to pieces, my girl, he said decidedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You stay aft and I'll 'tend to things for'ard and handle this crew. Besides, there's that half-grown lout, Am... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that room locked for? I want to know what you mean? the woman demanded of Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think I'm goin' to work in a house where doors is locked against me? I'm as honest as any Silt that ever hobbled on two laigs. Nex' thing, I ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'ye mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean to keep my cabin locked, he told her in a perfectly passive voice, but in a manner that halted her suddenly, angry as she was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want no woman messin' with my ber... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a master he must have been on his own quarter-deck, Louise thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he must have seen rough times, as that Lawford Tapp suggested. My! he's not much like Cap'n Abe, after all."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blind's a bat! Poor little critter! he would murmur."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the sunshine does is to warm him; he can't see it no more. Out-o'-doors ain't nothin' to him now."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But a day come when the man fell asleep and had a nightmare or something, and kicked out, cracking that cat on the snout with his heel. Next breath the cat had a chunk out o' his calf and if I hadn't been there with a gun he'd pretty near have eat the feller!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave me have a piece of Brown Mule, Cap'n Am'zon. I'm all out o' chewin'. Put it on the book and Mandy'll pay for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Avast there! Cap'n Amazon returned."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me I got something in the b... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does beat all what a fool a woman will be,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "when the first church bells began to ring, arrayed in a much wrinkled but very good suit of"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll go to the First Church, Niece Louise, he said firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abe always did. These small-fry craft, like the Mariner's Chapel, are all right, I don't dispute; but they are lacking in ballast. It's in my mind to attend the church that's t... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then he's a chauffeur as well as fisherman and boatman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "L'Enfant Terrible,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those folks, so I'm told, said Cap'n Amazon placidly,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young man, my brother, Mr. Abram Silt, hires a pew here; but I don't rightly know its bearings. Would you mind showin' me and my niece the course?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's goin' to be more of your crowd come to-morrow, Miss Grayling, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some of 'em's goin' to stop with us at the Inn. How you makin' out down there to Cap'n Abe's? Land sakes! _that_ ain't Cap'n Abe!"
},
{
"from": "hum... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now! what was I sayin'? Oh! The boss tells me there's a Mr. Judson Bane of your crowd goin' to stop with us. Sent a telegraph dispatch for a room to be saved for him. With bath! Land sakes! ain't the whole ocean big enough for him to take a bath in? We ain't got nothing like tha... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She cried re'l tears. _I_ can do that. All I got to do is to think of something re'l mis'rable--like the time our old brahma hen, Beauty, got bit by Esek Coe's dog, and ma had to saw her up. Then the tears'll squeeze right out, _just as ea'sy_!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dunno who he is exactly, bein' somethin' o' a stranger here, one of the women said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I was told he was some poor relation who allers lived among the fisher folk. But he does seem to know how to run thet autermobile, don't he?"
},... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next thing I knowed it took holt like a leech in half a dozen places. I jumped; but I didn't jump far. There was two o' the things had me, and that left leg o' mine was fast as a duck's foot in the mud!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Uncle Amazon!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More scare't than hurt, I reckon. I was a young feller, as I tell you, and hadn't seen so much of the world as I have since, continued Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the arms seemed fairly to grow on that devilfish. I wasn't hacked loose when the se... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty average nice, I call 'em, for soft-fodder, he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, land sakes! give me something hearty and kind of solid for reg'lar eating. Ordinary man would starve pretty handy, I guess, on breadstuff like this."
},
{
"from... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come for a sail, Miss Grayling? he asked her, with his very widest smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take you out around Gull Rocks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I am not sure----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely you're n... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw you with Cap'n Amazon going to church this morning, Lawford said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the First Church, I presume?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I drove the folks over to Paulm... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good sport. I must take you out in the _Merry Andrew_, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's a peach of a sailer--and my very own."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! do you own the sloop, Mr. Tapp?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I gu... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "D'you know who that is? Gusty whispered to Louise when she found time to do so. The plump girl was vastly excited; her hands shook as she set down the dishes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's Mr. Judson Bane."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. I c... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allow me. said a deep and cultivated voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Extremely annoying."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fancy we are fellow-outcasts, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You, too, are a visitor to this delightfully quaint place?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Mr. Bane, she returned frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Though I ca... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine-looking young fisherman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. Some of them are good-looking and more intelligent than you would believe,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If that woman ain't holystonin' the deck ev'ry day she thinks we're wadin' in dirt, boot-laig high,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cleanliness is next to godliness!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes! ejaculated the captain."
},
{
"from":... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them contraptions, Cap'n Amazon broke off in his ditty to say,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land sakes! Cap'n Amazon added."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it going to heave to here?"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the place, ma'am. This is Cap'n Abe's."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure this is the place, young man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is Cap'n Abe Silt's,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--it doesn't look------"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Want your suitcase, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There--there doesn't seem to be anybody about,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, go right into the store, ma'am. Cap'n Abe's somewheres around. He always is."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mornin', ma'am, said Cap'n Amazon, not at all embarrassed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What can I do for you, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You--you are not Captain Silt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, ma'am; I am."
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see you're nigh-sighted, ma'am. Some of us git that way as we grow older. I never have been bothered with short eyesight myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish to see my niece at once,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come right in,"
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catarrh, ma'am? suggested the perfectly composed Cap'n Amazon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This strong salt air ought to do it a world of good. I've known a sea v'y'ge to cure the hardest cases. They tell me lots of 'em come down here to the Cape afflicted that wa... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Betty, he added, turning to the amazed Mrs. Gallup, just then appearing at the living-room door,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say Mrs. Conroth, woman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's a 'woman,' I want to know? I ain't one no more'n _she_ is, and ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tony had his knife out in a flash and jumped for the creature. The other steersman yelled (one man couldn't rightly hold the wheel alone, the sea was kicking up such a bobberation) but Tony's one slash was enough. The albatross tumbled right down on the deck, a great cut in its ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was sundown (only we hadn't seen no sun in a week) when that albatross was killed and hove overboard. At four bells of the mornin' watch one o' them big waves come inboard. It washed everything that wasn't lashed into the scuppers and took one of our smartest men overboard wi... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And sure 'nough it had, sighed Cap'n Amazon, as though reflecting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You never did see such a time as we had in gettin' round the Cape. And we got it good in the roarin' forties, too--hail, sleet, snow, rain, and lightnin' all mixed, and ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But birds have an influence in the world, I take it, like other folks. You wouldn't think, ma'am, how much store my brother Abe sets by old Jerry yonder."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Louise!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not see how you can endu... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will our friends think of you? demanded Mrs. Conroth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am horrified to have them know you ever remained overnight in such a place. There are the Perritons. They were on the train with me coming down from Boston. They are opening t... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask your A'nt 'Phemie to come again. Too bad she ain't satisfied to jine us here. Plenty o' cabin room. But if she's aimin' to anchor near by she'll be runnin' in frequent I cal'late. Good-day to ye, ma'am!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Louise! I shall never forget ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How be you this fine day, miss? the old fellow asked sociably."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's enough to put new marrer in old bones, this weather. Cold weather lays me up same's any old hulk. An' I been used to work, I have, all my life. Warn't none of 'em any b... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some men's born to serve afore the mast--or how'd we git sailors? observed the old fellow, with all the philosophy of the unambitious man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Others get into the afterguard with one, two, three, and a jump! His trembling fingers knotted th... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Abe himself, now, I'd never believed would trust himself on open water."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet, cried Louise,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye-as. But _has_ he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does beat all, the Captain said reflectively, reaching for his knitting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What notion did the dog take, Uncle Amazon? Louise asked as he halted. Sometimes he required a little urging to"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The new slant of the wind struck us at the same moment. The old _Sally S._ heeled to larboard and that Newfoundland was jerked over the rail."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The poor thing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'd ha' thought so. I wouldn't ... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, concluded Cap'n Amazon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Cap'n Amazon, what a really wonderful life you have led!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ain't I? he observed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't for the life of me see how Abe's stood it ashore all these years. An' him keepin' a shop!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, if that's one o' them summer fellers, for gas I shall raise the price of it--I vow!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, come right in! Sure she's here--an' we're both sittin' up for comp'ny,"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not know, Miss Grayling, whether you care to go out in my _Merry Andrew_ now that your friends have arrived, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if you do, we might go on Thursday."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Day after to-morrow? Why not... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isn't he a wonder? murmured Lawford, as Louise accompanied him to the gate and watched him start the automobile engine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never heard such a fellow in my life. And good as gold!"
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, then shall we have her for our chaperon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aunt Euphemia? Mercy, no! I have chosen Betty Gallup and believe me, Mr. Tapp, Betty is much to be preferred."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He should engage old Washy Gallup to give color to the group,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anscomb is having his own troubles with that bunch, sighed the leading man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of them never saw a bigger net before than one t... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is--is it a man--or what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, Mr. Bane! That is my chaperon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chaperon! Ye gods and little fishes! Miss Grayling, no matter where you go, or with whom, you are perfectly safe with _that_ as a... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish I was goin' with ye, he said heartily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would, too, if I could shut up shop. But I promised Abe I'd stay by the ship till he come home again."
}
] |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring us home a mess of tautog, Cap'n Amazon shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sartainly do fancy blackfish when they're cooked right. Bile 'em, an' serve with an egg sauce, is my way o' puttin' 'em on the table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "T... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must keep this young man at a distance, she thought, as she waved her hand to Uncle Amazon and Mr. Bane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He takes too much for granted, I fear. Perhaps, after all, I should have excused myself from this adventure."
},
{
"from"... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gimme my way and I'd wear 'em doin' housework and makin' my garding, she declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land sakes! I allus did despise women's fooleries."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Betty, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! you're the only furiner, Lawford Tapp, I ever see who could sail a smack proper. But you got Cape blood in you--that's what 'tis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Betty, he returned, with the ready smile that crinkled the corners of his eyes."
},
... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mussel beds all about here, explained the young man to his guest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That means good feeding for the blackfish. Can't catch them anywhere save on a rock bottom, or around old spiles or sunken wrecks. Better let me rig your line, Miss Grayl... |
13982 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember, you'll only feel a nibble. The tautog is a shy fish. He doesn't swallow hook, line, and sinker like a hungry cod. You must snap him quick when he takes the hook, for his mouth is small and you must get him instantly--or not at all."
}
] |
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