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43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we’re off. Look out for gybing at the corners, Tom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Believe you me, it’s thirty miles; the like of that, now!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s a car in the wake of us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Overhauling us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She’s not, then. How would the likes of her?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She will, though. We shall have to slow down. Look ahe... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s the way we’d see a collision,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slow down, Bob,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As good a bit of steering as ever I saw, cried the Irishman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you get a whiff of the mangolds?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was expecting to be mangled, said Eves, grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By George, Bob, cried Eves,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear it, said Templeton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn’t mistake it: I’ll give it room to pass."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, Bob, shouted Eves,"
},
{
"from... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten—fourteen—eighteen—twenty —he followed the pointer round the dial, and when it quivered on 33 he swung his arm round, uttering a wild"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurroosh!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pass her on the near side, Bob."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down and be quiet, shouted Eves,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE BOOM SWUNG OUT, AND CAME INTO SHARP CONTACT, FIRST WITH NOAKES’S HEAD, THEN WITH THE WIND SCREEN."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurroosh! yelled the Irishman, standing with difficulty erect in the swaying vehicle and looking back along the road."
},
{
"f... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What’s the time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nine minutes to the hour, replied the Irishman, consulting his watch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will we do it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Begor, she’s stopped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Big ends dropped off, said Templeton, grinning at Eves over his shoulder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I gave him fair warning."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go in between them huts till you come to a swanky hut with a flag flying atop, replied the private addressed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A rum turn-out, this here."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pass: you’d better tender for the lot of us: we’re all waste here, said the sentry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps if you offered to buy us up they’d demob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don’t like that, said Templeton, gravely, as he drove o... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a queer contrivance of yours, my man. I thought Mr. O’Reilly was a lunatic when he told me he’d arrived in a yacht, without being sick, and himself a bad sailor——"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am that, put in O’Reilly, parenthetically."
},
{
"from"... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you the colonel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am. You want to see me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m the Mayor of Pudlington. This is my friend Ebenezer Saunders, who’s come for to tender for the camp waste."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s more in this than meets the eye, said the colonel, smiling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you gentlemen come into my hut and tell me something more of the Mayor of Pudlington?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With pleasure, sir, replied Eves... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rummy we should come across that old humbug! said Eves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Still rummier that he should be Mayor of Pudlington. I thought the mayoralty was the reward for long years of civic virtue. Old Noakes can’t have been here more than a couple of ye... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friend Mr. Eves, Mrs. Pouncey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How d’ye do, Mrs. Pouncey? said Eves, shaking hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Templeton has been telling me you’re the best cook in the three kingdoms. You know you did, Bob; don... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We’ve a few minutes, said Templeton then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come and see my road-sweeper."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Been playing with plasticine?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That’s another little idea of mine, replied Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A new fire extinguisher."
},
{
"from":... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, Bob, there’ll be a splendid rag to-morrow, he said on rejoining his friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There’s a meeting of parliamentary electors at the new Literary Institute—a final kick before the election on Saturday. Old Noakes is in the chair: he’s ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ve spent a profitable afternoon, said Eves, returning to his seat on the bench."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don’t think much of Pudlington, but an enquiring mind like mine can pick up pearls anywhere. I was strolling along when I came to an uncommonly ugly unfin... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilkins went off at half-past three, and said he wouldn’t be back to-night, said Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose he changed his mind."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s some one stooping at a drawer, trying a key, apparently. Couldn’t see his face, the light’s too dim."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It’s Wilkins, I expect. No one else has any right here, replied Templeton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ll ta... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s not Wilkins, whispered Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never saw him dressed like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it’s a burglar, replied Eves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nab him!"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My hat! Noakes!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Collar him, Bob!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’ll sit on him, said Eves."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ring up the police station, Bob, and ask them to send a constable to arrest a burglar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But are you sure... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Daze me! said the constable, after a hard stare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely—ay, ’tis the mayor, with the beginning of a black eye!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I’m the mayor! said Noakes, truculently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So much for your rough diamond! said Eves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Noakes evidently didn’t know before to-day that you were here, and when I saw him confabbing with Wilkins he was no doubt asking all about you. Wilkins must have told him about your inventions,... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rummy old sport! he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose he will strike something really good one of these days, and be a bloated millionaire while I’m pinching on a miserable pension. Wonder what temperature this stuff melts at, by the way."
},
{
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By George! What a rag! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if it can be done! Mustn’t tell Bob, though!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning, Mr. Johnson, he said to the builder, whom he found reading a newspaper in the large hall, and smiling broadly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You’ve got all ready for to-night, I see. How many will the place hold?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most ingenious, said Eves, making a mental note of the position of the tank."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it answers, I suppose you will make a tank to cover the whole of the ceiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely, and put it into every hou... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They’ll be warm afore they gets to work, said the latter, smiling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And if so be there’s any opposition, I won’t say but what tempers ’ll rise to biling point. However!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A queer man, your mayor... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mayor’s a busy man just now, said Eves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn’t there some sort of a ceremony coming on?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, so ’tis, a ceremony that’s come down from very ancient days, very ancient indeed, when we was al... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty thirsty work, isn’t it? he said to the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don’t wonder you’re not keen to be kept so long at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said the stoker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The truth o’t is I was ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It do be warmish, to be sure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thanks to the mayor! Bob, look after Mrs. Pouncey. I’ll be back presently."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where be Mr. Eves, I wonder? said Mrs. Pouncey, presently. She was in truth disappointed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Templeton was a nice young gentleman, to be sure (so she afterwards confided to a gossip),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who said burglar? Some of the audience laughed, some cried"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shame! and a shrill cry of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wasn’t me!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ladies and gentlemen."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "through his hour’s declamation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fellow could speak, said Templeton, afterwards,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That’s the way. Keep it going steady, my man. There’s a thermometer on the wall just inside the hall; run up every now and again and take a look at it: never let it drop below 60°."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay sure,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not below 60°! said Eves under his breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sixteen degrees to go! Well, it’s a long, long way to Tipperary, but my heart is _there_!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some fug, mate!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my friends, we’ve heard a terrible fine speech, that we have, and I agree with every word of it. Afore I call upon our candidate—he’ll be our member to-morrow—to propose a vote of thanks to our comrade, I’ve a thing or two to say for to bring it home to the hearts o’ the me... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said in his smoothest tones, still trying to discover Eves’s whereabouts, but in vain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was a-going to say——"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answer the question! came in a chorused roar from the soldiers."
},
{
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, the same as I’ve paid honest for twenty year, afore ever you come into the town, and ’twas you as said ’twould be doubled as soon as Parlyment lets you, if not afore, and not a word of a lie in it, Mr. Noakes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shame!"
},
{
"... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As chairman of this meeting, and Mayor of Pudlington, here I be, and here I bide."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF TEMPLETON’S EXPERIMENTAL TANK POURED DOWN."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The meeting at the Literary Institute in support of the candidature of Mr. Benjamin Moggridge was broken up by a most remarkable unrehearsed effect, which is probably without parallel in the political life of this country. The mayor, Alderman Noakes, was in the act of protesting... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, you slugabed. It’s come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cover me up, confound you! cried Eves, wrathfully."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall catch my death of cold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up. I’ve been dressed half a... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Bob’s excited this morning, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another rag, I wonder?"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It’s just the thing, Tom, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It fits perfectly, and I believe the old ’bus will go like one o’clock. The only thing left, if it does work, is to complete my specification and fire it in at the Patent Office."
},
{
"from":... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, in plain English, then, my motor is provided with two sets of steering-gear, and the clutch couplings are so arranged that I can engage one and disengage the other simply by shifting round on the seat, on the pivot of which a cam is keyed——"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that the result of what they call unconscious cerebration? he asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or can your mighty mind attend to two things at once? You’re a wonder, Bobby, and I hope I shall live long enough to write you a thumping obituary notice."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look rather down in the mouth. Bob, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anything wrong?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m a bit worried, Templeton replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don’t think I’m naturally suspicious——"
}... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A gentleman to see you, sir; O’Reilly by name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our excitable Irishman,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask him in, Mrs. Pouncey, please,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, I’m delighted to see the two of you, ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That’s done, he said, flinging down his pen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you writing to Wilkins for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just to tell him I shan’t be at the shop till Thursday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wouldn’t... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You’ll be cold, sure, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’ll let you in and show you the bath-room; there’ll be hot water. I’ll garage the car, and by the time you’re dry I’ll be back. I don’t dare wake my housekeeper. The last trump wouldn’t get her out of bed... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There’s old Noakes about ten yards ahead, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Patent Office doesn’t open till ten, I think you said, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That’s so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he’s about forty ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, you’ll be after doing us a kindness. My friend here has a specification which Mr. Jones is going to file for me, and he’ll need it copied in duplicate at once. Indeed, he’ll be mighty pleased to find it ready for him; he’s been longing to get his hand on it these man... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our worthy mayor,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, old ’un, mind my toes,"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ll learn you!"
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE LAD DASHED ITS HEAD FULL IN NOAKES’S FACE."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, d’you know that the gentleman you are assaulting is the Mayor of Pudlington?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don’t care who he is. He ain’t going to hit me for nothing, ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like the looks of it, he said, finally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you given it a trial?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not yet, replied Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I’ve rigged up the mechanism, rather roughly, on an... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He’ll go on the razzle, I suppose, he remarked, as he dropped into the corner opposite Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he can’t keep it up long. Isn’t Saturday the day for that old ceremony—what do they call it?—anointing the British Stone? I’d made up ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn’t you wait till you could rig cranks, or whatever they are, on a decent car instead of this ramshackle old piece of antiquity?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sorry, old man, said Templeton;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’ll go a bit slower."
... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, ’tis a terrible day for wetness, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But here I am, and I’ll be glad now to take a look at your machine. Have you it in working order?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We gave it a short trial this morning, said ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it the likes of a wake, then? O’Reilly asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or a horse-race, maybe?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only a country beano,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That’s disappointing, now. I’d have liked to see a go... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Tom, said Templeton, his manner betraying a little nervousness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Righto. The road’s clear."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think old Bob’s done the trick this time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe, re... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "COVERED THEM WITH A DELUGE OF LIQUID MUD."
}
] |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am really very sorry, Mr. Noakes, said Templeton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was trying a new invention, and I can’t say how much I regret——"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Od rabbit you and your inventions, roared Noakes."
},
{
"from": "... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My hat, what a rag! said Eves to his companion on the way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I’m afraid old Bob has come a cropper, poor old boy! It’s not the first time; but I’ll say this for him, he always comes up smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have already more than once drawn the attention of the mayor and corporation to the disgracefully muddy state of our roads in winter-time. Now that our civic worthies have suffered in their own persons, and the town has been deprived for the first time in a hundred and forty ... |
43234 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Noakes was never popular, Templeton wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just like old Bob,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I’m jolly glad, old man. ’There is a tide,’ etc. (Shakespeare). I always said you’d make your fortune, though I must own I never ... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to see you here at Base again, Commander, he said, in his crisp, business-like way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hear some good reports of your work; keep it up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, sir,"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all, Commander, not at all. And now, let me present Carlos Inverness, the scientist, of whom you have undoubtedly heard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I imagine the good captain has been too busy to follow the activities of such as myself,"
},
{
"from... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Written orders will, of course, be given you before departure. I believe that's all. Good luck, Commander!"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Since when, asked Correy bitterly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Or put on Attached Police Service,"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps, suggested the level-headed Kincaide,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very much so. You'd scarcely take him for a scientist."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And our destination is--what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I don't know... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, said Inverness crisply, when the introductions were over,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I presume you'll wish to know something about our destination and the objects of this expedition, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be helpful i... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our destination, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hardly familiar, I admitted, smiling at Correy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The universe is rather sizable, and even the named bodies are so numerous that one is able to be familiar with but an... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, we shall walk to the shore of the river; if we are not molested--and I believe we shall not be, here, because the infiltration of water would quickly fill any passage sunk into this sandy earth so close to the river--please have your men bring our supplies to us, the boat f... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry, said Inverness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll make the best of it, I said, thinking of Correy, and how he would rage at such a period of inaction."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best of luck to you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have I your permission, sir, asked Correy on the fourth day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not sure that would be wise. These spider creatures--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon me, sir, interrupted Correy eagerly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the way he described them, they're something like the deer we used to have on Earth, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've seen the fossils in the museums, and they had little sharp, split hoofs like--"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back to the ship! I shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look, Mr. Correy--there are hundreds of them!"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We didn't do so badly, at that, grinned Correy rather breathlessly, as we gained the welcome shelter of the _Ertak_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are a score and more of those potlids still standing open--which means that many spiders didn't go back to tell a... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We leave immediately, Commander Hanson, he said as he disembarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please give the necessary orders."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the others, sir? Where are Inverness and Brady?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have seen the creatures--word of your adventure with them precipitated our misfortune, I might say here--and you know of their tunnels. We were taken down one of these tunnels, and into a still larger one. This in turn gave onto a veritable subterranean avenue, and, in time,... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first few days they were exceedingly hostile, and tried to tear us to pieces. When they could not do this, word was sent to some of their more learned members, and we were investigated. By the use of extra menores we had brought with us, we established a contact with their m... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, having a more scientific and cautious mind, doubting everything as a true scientific mind must, still wore my armor. By the liberal use of my pistol, I managed to fight my way to the surface, and to the boat. And now, Commander Hanson, will you start back, as I have ordered?"... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, Mr. Tipene, I said shortly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll start at once. Gentlemen, will you join me in the navigating room?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just transferred Tipene to another stateroom, sir, he said."
},
{
... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, before I transferred him to the other stateroom, I concealed a menore under the mattress of his bunk, immediately under where his head will lie. It's adjusted to full strength, and I believe it will pick up enough energy to emanate what he's thinking about. We'll be in the n... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably sitting on the edge of his bunk, whispered Correy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When he lies down, it'll work like a charm!"
}
] |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can't be very intelligent--to think I'd come back with tribute to pay for the spiders that fool Hanson and his men killed. Why, the ship's rays could wipe them all out, drill a hole in the ground--they didn't realize that. Thought that by holding Brady and that conceited In... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the meaning of this indignity, sir? flared Tipene. He had dressed hurriedly, and was by no means an imposing spectacle. He drew himself up to his full height, and tried to look domineering, but there was fear in his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall... |
29309 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There--there is the place, said Tipene suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just this side of the patch of vegetation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good. And remember what happens if you play any tricks, I nodded grimly."
},
{
"from":... |
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