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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That little girl is my daughter. Her name is Ruth Peniman. She comes from the Muskingum Valley in Ohio," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you lying to me? If you are you’d better make your will right now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not lying t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello, cried Joe," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Me Pashepaho. Son Pawnee chief. Spik li’le. Then looking down at the otter skin—" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heap bad man." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me give, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pawnee heap white man’s friend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mean you want to give me this skin?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, Pashepaho! That pelt’s worth good money. I have no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you take this. I’d like to make you a present. I know you like red. It’ll look good on you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! That looks fine! I knew it would be becoming to you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You sleep?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we’re going to camp here to-night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me sleep, too." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What’s the matter? What do you see?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sh-sh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? Where are they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone! he said with a gesture of wide flight," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Red Snake coward. Think Big Chief come." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me know he come. Me come. He scare....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, no, no, no, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don’t want to be left there! I’d _die_ of homesickness there! Oh, Mother Peniman, don’t leave me, don’t leave me, please don’t go away and leave me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She doesn’t know—she doesn’t understand, the poor lamb," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, I do know, yes I do understand, sobbed the child." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that my papa and mama are dead and that I am left all alone in the wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother—what’s the matter with Princess—I heard her crying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’re going to leave me—leave me—at the M-M-Mission, sobbed Princess." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They’re tired of me—they don’t love me—and they’re going to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was the dying wish of her mother, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But she is dead—and Nina is alive. If she doesn’t know her own people—if she doesn’t want to go to them—isn’t it better that she should be allowed to do what she wants to with her own life?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t cry, poor lamb, she comforted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He who never faileth us will guard her, Joshua, said Hannah Peniman, a mist in her brave blue eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could never have found it in my conscience to abandon the poor lamb. She will be to us as one of our own children, and I know that her...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ne-bras-kah, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flat Water," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, Joe, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just watch, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Ruthie, thee and Sam and Paul should watch, too. Those are little houses, and some queer little fellows live in them." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I see! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at that queer little feller sittin’ right up on the roof of his house! Come on out, Ruth, greatest sight you ever saw! Queerest little things, bigger’n gophers and not striped, just kind o’ plain brown, with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How deep are their holes, Father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have read that they are tunneled back long distances, and that many of the underground passages connect the mounds with one another. I have also read, he continued with a twinkle in his eyes," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nebraska zephyrs," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can’t find anything to build a fire of, Mother, cried Joe after a vain search," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in the name of goodness——" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look, Mother, what are those things over there? called Lige." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think they are some kind of animals?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sheep!" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whew! that’s more fun than pom-pom-pull-away!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wake up, he whispered in his ear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wolves—grey wolves! whispered Joe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cow, the cow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wolves—wolves! They are after the horses—they almost got the cow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There were such a lot of them, cried Joe;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wolves are great cowards. When they heard the shots they probably made off with all speed. I think you did exceedingly well to get two in this uncertain light. Too bad we can’t skin these fellow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am doubtful, he said as he loaded them into his wagon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joshua, she whispered, laying her hand on his arm," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joshua, wake up! I smell smoke, and away over yonder I think I see a fire——" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the sleeping man was wide awake and on his feet in a moment." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prairie fire! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And there’s no telling where it will stop in this wind! Call the boys!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hitch up as quick as you can, Joe, he shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watch that nothing catches fire in the wagon, Hannah, shouted Joshua Peniman, bending forward and laying the whip across the backs of the petted team that had scarcely ever felt a blow in their lives before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Watch the children’s clothin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No use, he shouted, leaping out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The kegs! shouted Joshua Peniman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We’ve got to set a back-fire here, he shouted;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then backing up a few steps at a time, and keeping the flames under control, they let this second or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watch out there, Joe, keep your eye to the right there, yelled Mr. Peniman, black and smoke-begrimed and beating with all his might at a vicious tongue of flame that threatened to get beyond him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look out there, Lige! Nina, be careful t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mother, will it get us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don’t be frightened, Ruthie, she shouted above the wind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep your broom going! Don’t stop to look. God will take care of us. Watch your side there, Nina; beat it ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run to the horses, Joe, shouted his father, after a swift backward glance at the wagons." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put wet sacks over their heads and throw wet blankets over them! Lige, here, you take Joe’s place! Watch out there, Mother, beat out that fire on t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To the wagons, to the wagons!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "yelled his father." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stampeded by the fire! Get your guns—fire into them as they come—please God our back-fire may keep us from being trampled by them!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It might be an Indian camp," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "White men or red we must have water to-night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? called Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it an Indian’s hut?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, thank God, cried Joshua Peniman fervently;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wal of all things! she ejaculated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Ohio," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fer th’ land sakes, she cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We’re Americans—and white, said Mr. Peniman laughing, as he leaped from the wagon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At least we were white once, and we hope to be again. We’ve just escaped with...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We aren’t quite such desperate characters as we appear, saluted Joshua Peniman with his pleasant smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have barely escaped with our lives from a prairie fire, had to use all the water we had, and have had no chance to wash. My name ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ll bet you folks ain’t never seen a dugout before, she exclaimed jovially." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well it’s sure a queer way to live, but me an’ Jim think it’s a good way—to begin with. We ain’t always goin’ to live this way, but a dugout’s safe from cyclon...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "elaborately worked in red cotton, with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good Night on one pillow and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good Morning" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It’s wonderfully clean and cozy and comfortable-looking, exclaimed Mrs. Peniman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder how you keep it so. I would not dream that a house just dug into the ground could be so attractive." }, { "from": "human", "value": "L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonderful chance to get an antelope, said Lige with shining eyes; but Joe shook his head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Could you shoot one of those beautiful creatures? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I swear I couldn’t." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A _lake_? he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A lake in this country? Where?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, see, over there, pointing ahead of them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joshua —she cried,—" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, dear heart, I hate to dispel thy illusion, but there is no lake there. It is a mirage." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A _mirage_? What’s a mirage, Father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joshua, she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hate to rouse thee, but—look off there to the west; what is it we see? Is it—is it another mirage? It looks as if there were trees there. I have been looking and looking, but I was afraid to speak. I hated to aw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, Sam, wake up here! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you to tell me if I’m crazy or if my eyes have gone bad or if I’m seeing another mirage! If I’m not plumb crazy there’s a river over there, and trees——" }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was told that there was a river not far from here, he said to his wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don’t care what it is called, said Mrs. Peniman, laughing joyously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won’t have to, my dear, said Mr. Peniman, h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mother, Mother, isn’t it _beautiful_! It looks so green, so fresh, so _lovely_—as if God had just finished it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "shouted Joe, springing eagerly down as the wagons were drawn up in the shade of the trees." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, Mother, jump down and come take a look at this river! Cricky, we haven’t seen anything like this since we left Ohio. This water isn’t red o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us thank God, he said in a low, reverent voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come down to the river with me, Joshua, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to talk to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Isn’t it a heavenly place?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is indeed. We could have found no lovelier to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye-es, he said musingly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "urged Mrs. Peniman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, Joshua, look at the horses, look at that poor cow! Think of the many, many weary miles we should have to travel over those desolate burning p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thee has a long head, Hannah, he said, falling into the old Quaker form of speech which he often used when they were alone or when he was deeply stirred;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do indeed. That is best. Let us stay here to-day, rest, think, pray to God for w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have decided to take a day off to rest, lads, he told them gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is going to be a very hot day, and both we and the horses need it. Will thee enjoy having a day here by the river?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Children, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy mother thinks, their father continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, _locate_ here? Take up land—make this our home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Exactly. We have been going over its possibilities as a future home this morning, and I must a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here shall be the place for the house! cried Mrs. Peniman, her eyes sparkling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What could be lovelier? Where could we find anything finer if we searched the whole Territory of Nebraska? Here we would have shade, water, shelter from the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you ready? asked Joshua Peniman. Then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As many as favor remaining here and locating our new home upon the Blue River hold up your right hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Am I to vote, too?" }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will take some time to build our house, she said brightly as she hurried about getting her new cooking-place in order," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was thinking, he said as they approached him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Couldn’t we build them a pen out of logs?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can’t spare any of our precious timber for pigs, said Mr. Peniman. Then with a sudden smile breaking ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I can’t see, puffed Lige," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I know, he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, of course! It’s a bully idea! Don’t you see that we can _dig_ a pen for them? A mighty good kind of a pen, too, that they can’t break ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t fear, Lige, we won’t do that, but I’ll show you a better way, and yet the prairies will have to furnish the material." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, admitted Lige a bit reluctantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’ll agree that that’s an all-right pig-pen, but I don’t see yet how you’re ever going to make a house for us to live in out of dirt!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait for a few day...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, my lads, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Lige, I’ll show you how to build a house out of dirt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You don’t do it with a _plow_, do you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes,—partly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are these for, Father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These are the bricks of which we are going to build our house, my son," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But why don’t we build our house of logs, Father? asked Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There’s no use waiting until the house is finished before we begin to _live_, she greeted them cheerily;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother Peniman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nebraska marble" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew those were there! cried Joe, as he saw his father haul them out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you ever come to think of them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would be a poor sort of a pioneer that did not think about providing s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! he ejaculated," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess no Indian will break through that to steal our horses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I think not. We’ll put a good strong lock on it, and then I think our horses will be safe. It behooves us to keep them so, went on Mr. Peniman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just in time, my lads, cried Mr. Peniman with a glance at the angry blackness of the sky." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We’re going to have a big storm. Thank heaven that both we and our cattle will have good shelter. Get up the horses, Joe. Lige, you fill up the ra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oo-ooh! if we were out in the wagons now!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, or even in a frame house, said Joe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No frame house could last long in a wind like this. Whee-ee, isn’t it a gale! I’m glad we’re in a soddy." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their pen is all wet, Father, cried Ruth in a grieved tone;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They do, too, don’t they, Mother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never heard of pigs taking cold, said Mrs. Peniman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Talk about your greased-pig races, panted Sam, who had just lost his grip on Juliet for the fourth time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never saw one that was a patchin’ to this!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, _stay_ in your slimy old pen then," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here’s a rope, he called out;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Indians! he shouted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God—will Hannah see them in time—will she get herself and the children into the house before they reach her!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Kit, he half sobbed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother—brave, brave little Mother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nina, she shrieked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he shouted," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father, he panted, starting up wildly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Princess—they got her—where is she——" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you wounded, Joe? he asked in anguish;" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m going to find Princess, Father, he said in a tone that was not to be disputed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I _must_—we can’t leave her in the hands of that—that scoundrel. I’m all right now, I can ride Kit——" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Kit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But they’ve carried Nina away and I am going after her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Indians—they have carried off Princess?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May the Almighty Father watch over and protect him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And bring him back to us alive and well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish that I could have gone in his place! were the words that forced themselves with a groan fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful, she whispered cautiously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, she cried with a shudder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There were many shots fired, Hannah, her husband assured her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He stopped, then went on quickly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must get him up to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the Indian I shot with Mother’s revolver!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I did that, I did it, she moaned." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought he would kill Mother—I——" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, Ruth, her father comm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m afraid it is fatal, he said sadly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heap sick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heap sick," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You’ve got to drink your milk, she said firmly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now go to sleep," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me Eagle Eye," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she asked, and when he nodded gravely she added delightedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My name _Ruth_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Woof!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our In...