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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every man and woman duly twice a day upon the first towling of the Bell shall upon the working daies repaire unto the church, to hear divine service upon pain of losing his or her allowance for the first omission, for the second to be whipt, and for the third to be condemned to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Travaile refers sometimes to Smith, and always with respect. It will be noted that Smith's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Map was engraved and published before the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Description in the Oxford tract. Purchas had it, for he sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laws (1612), is dated" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From my lodging in the Black Friars. At your best pleasures, either to return unto the colony, or pray for the success of it heere. In his letter he speaks of his experience in the Bermudas and Virginia:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The better sort of women cover themselves (for the most part) all over with skin mantells, finely drest, shagged and fringed at the skyrt, carved and coloured with some pretty work, or the proportion of beasts, fowle, tortayses, or other such like imagry, as shall best please or...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General Historie are so evidently interpolated at a late date, that they do not aid us. When and where she took the name of Matoaka, which appears upon her London portrait, we are not told, nor when she was called Amonata, as Strachey says she was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was told by certain Indians, my friends, that the great Powhatan's daughter Pokahuntis was with the great King Potowomek, whither I presently repaired, resolved to possess myself of her by any stratagem that I could use, for the ransoming of so many Englishmen as were prisoner...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A True Discourse of Virginia, and the Success of the Affairs there till the 18th of June, 1614." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It chanced Powhatan's delight and darling, his daughter Pocahuntas (whose fame has even been spread in England by the title of Nonparella of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Long before this time, Hamor relates," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Governor Dale approved this, and consequently was willing to retire without other conditions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The bruite of this pretended marriage [Hamor continues] cam...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let therefore this my well advised protestation, which here I make between God and my own conscience, be a sufficient witness, at the dreadful day of judgment (when the secrets of all men's hearts shall be opened) to condemne me herein, if my chiefest interest and purpose be not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus when I thought I had obtained my peace and quietnesse, beholde another, but more gracious tentation hath made breaches into my holiest and strongest meditations; with which I have been put to a new triall, in a straighter manner than the former; for besides the weary passio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "entitled" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leah and Rachel; or, The Two Fruitful Sisters, by Mr. John Hammond, London, 1656, considers the charges that Virginia" }, { "from": "human", "value": "; and admits that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On each hand of him was placed a comely and personable young woman, which they called his Queenes, the howse within round about beset with them, the outside guarded with a hundred bowmen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and then passed to Hamor, who" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bruite of the exquesite perfection of your youngest daughter, being famous through all your territories, hath come to the hearing of your brother, Sir Thomas Dale, who for this purpose hath addressed me hither, to intreate you by that brotherly friendship you make profession...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Thomas Dale returned from Virginia; he hath brought divers men and women of thatt countrye to be educated here, and one Rolfe who married a daughter of Pohetan (the barbarous prince) called Pocahuntas, hath brought his wife with him into England. On the 22d Sir John Chamberl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now to send for them into England, and to have them educated here, he found upon experience of those brought by Sir Thomas Dale, might be far from the Christian work intended. One Nanamack, a lad brought over by Lord Delaware, lived some years in houses where" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus most gracious Lady, I have related to your Majestic, what at your best leasure our approved Histories will account you at large, and done in the time of your Majesties life, and however this might bee presented you from a more worthy pen, it cannot from a more honest heart,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After a modest salutation, without any word, she turned about, obscured her face, as not seeming well contented; and in that humour, her husband with divers others, we all left her two or three hours repenting myself to have writ she could speak English. But not long after she b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christmas his Mask at court, January 6, 1616-17, Pocahontas and Tomocomo were both present, and Chamberlain writes to Carleton:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Virginian woman Pocahuntas with her father counsellor have been with the King and graciously used, and b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We cannot imagine why you should give us warning that Opechankano and the natives have given the country to Mr. Rolfe's child, and that they reserve it from all others till he comes of years except as we suppose as some do here report it be a device of your own, to some special ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Campbell in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Virginia" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is a goodly old man not yet shrincking, though well beaten with cold and stormeye winters, in which he hath been patient of many necessityes and attempts of his fortune to make his name and famely great. He is supposed to be little lesse than eighty yeares old, I dare not say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the eccentric man, who looks at no one, and streaks about the cabin and on deck, without any purpose, and plays shuffle-board alone, always beating himself, and goes on the deck occasionally through the sky-light instead of by the cabin door, washes himself at the salt-water...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Voila! and, looking up, two horses brushed right by my face, of which I saw about two tails and one neck, and they were gone. Pretty soon they came round again, and one was ahead, as is apt to be the case; and somebody cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bully for ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "all over, remark to a friend in a very loud whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you, the Prince lives every day of his life." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Raising of the Cross ), and the chapel of the Counts of Flanders, where workmen were uncovering some frescoes that were whitewashed over in the war-times. The town hall has two fine old chimney-pieces carved in wood, with quaint figures, --work that one must go to the Nether...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crucifixion of Rubens, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christ on the Cross of Vandyke; paintings also by Teniers, Otto Vennius, Albert Cuyp, and others, and Rembrandt's portrait of his wife,--a picture whose sweet strength and wealth of color draws one to it with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am, said he, wrenching himself into a new contortion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am what showed Artemus Ward round Stratford." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tousands is too many; some hundreds maybe; tousands is too many." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh dear! exclaimed the jung-frau as we sailed along the last day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not know whether to wander on through the extensive grounds, with splendid trees, bits of old ruin, overgrown, cozy nooks, and seats where, through the foliage, distant prospects open into quiet retreats that lead to winding walks up the terraced hill, round to the open ter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must sit still, and not talk." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I met an American on the boat yesterday, the oracle was saying to his friends," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quite an admission, was n't it, from an American? But I think they have changed since the wah, you know." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I have not." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want two places in the coupe of the diligence in the morning. Can I have them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yah" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two places, diligence, coupe, morning. Is it full?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yah, replied...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to secure two seats in the coupe of the diligence in the. morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yaas, jumping round, and looking from one to another." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Diligence, coupe, morning." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want two places in coupe, in the morning. Or banquette. Two places, diligence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he say?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He tells you to sit down on that bench till he is ready." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One is taken," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gentleman will take two," }, { "from": "human", "value": "One is taken," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then the gentleman will take the other two." }, { "from": "human", "value": "On...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yaas, rolling his face about on the top of his head violently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You three gentleman want breakfast. What you have?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Five persons want breakfast at five o'clock. Five persons, five hours. Call a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is you go by de diligence?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, you stupid." }, { "from": "human", "value": "as lively as ever. And we had a breakfast brought out, so filthy in all respects that nobody could eat it. Fortunately, there was not time to serio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They then have a respite till two, and go in till five. Eight hours in hot water! Nothing can be more disgusting than the sight of these baths. Gustave Dore must have learned here how to make those ghostly pictures of the lost floating about in the Stygian pools, in his illustra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Comment va votre poussee?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Avez-vous la poussee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Je suis en pleine poussee" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ma poussee s'est fort bien p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet a dollar. Yet I must flatter myself that Americans do not always thus betray themselves. I happened, on the Isle of Wight, to hear a bland landlord" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you know they were Americans? asks the irate father." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody ever goes to Nuremberg but Americans, said a cynical British officer at Chamouny;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Last Judgment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to whom it is erected. Yet it is so dwarfed by its situation, that it seems to have been placed in the middle of the street as an obstruction. A walk runs on each side of it. The Propylaeum, another magnificent gateway, thrown across the handsome Brienner Strasse, beyond the Gly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "William Tell unmutilated. For many years this liberty-breathing opera was not permitted to be given in Bavaria, except with all the life of it cut out. It was first presented entire by order of young King Ludwig, who, they say, was induced to command its unmutilated reproduction...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Crucifixion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you beautifully. With all this, one looks kindly on the childish love the Germans have for titles. It is, I believe, difficult for the German mind to comprehend that we can be in good standing at home, unless we have some title prefixed to our names, or some descriptive ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Death advertisement. It has pleased God the Almighty, in his inscrutable providence, to take away our innermost loved, best husband, father, grandfather, uncle, brother-in-law, and cousin, Herr---, dyer of cloth and silk, yesterday night, at eleven o'clock, after three weeks of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God save the King," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can see, returns a gentleman who speaks English," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not drink much beer now, said a German acquaintance,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunty, and would lay all the rising generation under obligation to her for doughnuts and sweet-cake. As she rises to go away, she scrapes together a half-dozen shining chestnuts with her feet; and as she cannot possibly stoop to pick them up, she motions to a boy playing near, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With the power of absolution, Christ has endued the priesthood with a might which is terrible to hell, and against which Lucifer himself cannot stand,-a might which, indeed, reaches over into eternity, where all other earthly powers find their limit and end,--a might, I say, whi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neueste Nachrichten (" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Latest News ) newspaper. We desired, if possible, admission into some respectable German family, where we should be forced to speak German, and in which our society, if I may so express it, would be some compensati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "his court, and, so far as I know, never read with any sort of attention our advertisement, which was composed with as much care as Goethe's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faust, and probably with the use of more dictionaries. And this, when he has an extraordinary la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meister-Singer von Nurnberg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mugby Junction," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I laff, I du." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, your honor, said he, calmly extending his right hand," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prophecy of Dante; and the translation of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Francesca da Rimini was" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some of his finest poems were also produced here, poems for which Venice is as grateful as Ravenna. Here he wrote" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the yellow color of which added a new element of picturesqueness to the splendid pageant. The pope was carried as before, and bore in his hand a short braided palm, with gold woven in, flowers added, and the monogram" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I. H. S." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everybody shouts it, mule-driver," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jerusalem Delivered" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How much for this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One franc, signor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no, no, signor! Ah, signor! ah, signor!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, never, never! The signor cannot be in earnest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does the signor live near Mexico?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not in dangerous proximity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, baby! And when we have passed the gate, and are under the wall, the whole ragged, brown-skinned troop scurry out upon the terrace, and run along, calling after us, in perfect English, as long as we keep in sight," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hullo, baby!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The day will come shortly, when you will want rain, and shall not have it; and you will pray for my return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CAP, signor? Good day for Grott." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arabian Nights." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I can go, if I like, he adds." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the fact is, I have n't slept much all night: she kept asking me if I was going!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see there was no danger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would have found there was danger, if you had gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee, Buck!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haw, Golden!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whoa, Bright! and all the rest of that remarkable language, until he is red in the face, and all the neighbors for half a mile are aware that something unusual is goin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Novem, and Novem could" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Octo, and so on down to Unus, who could n't lick anybody, except her own calf. I suppose I ought to have called the weakest cow Una instead of Unus, considering her sex; but I did n't care much to teach the cows t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanatopsis" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanatopsis" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Corners, to see a man about some cattle, to talk with the road commissioner, to go to the store for the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on a farm. He is first to clean out the horse-stable; then to take a bill-hook and cut down the thistles and weeds from the fence corners in the home mowing-lot and along the road towards the village; to dig up the docks round the garden patch; to weed out the beet-bed; to hoe t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, father, can't I go over to the farther pasture and salt the cattle? John knows that he could spend half a day very pleasantly in going over to that pasture, looking for bird's nests and shying at red squirrels on the way, and who knows but he might" }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, they don't need salting any more 'n you do!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die, ruffian!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I went as quick as ever I could," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why on earth does n't that boy come home? It is almost dark, and the cows ain't milked! And that was the time the cows had to start into a brisk pace and make up for lost time. I wonder if any boy ever drove the cows home late, who did not say that the cows were at the very fart...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ever seemed so sweet to him as that between sundown and dark Sunday night. This, however, was on the supposition that he had conscientiously kept Sunday, and had not gone in swimming and got drowned. This keeping of Saturday night instead of Sunday night we did not very well und...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jock, jock, jock, jock, and shaking his salt-dish, while the horses, with heads erect, and shaking tails and flashing heels, dashed from corner to corner, and gave the boy a pretty good race before he could coax the nose of one of them into his dish. The boy got angry, and came ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "David's harp of solemn sound." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "were trying to get in. The boy had an eye for whatever life and stir there was in a New England Sunday. He liked to drive home fast. The old house and the farm looked pleasant to him. There was an extra din...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was authorized to order the boy to turn the grindstone. How they did bear on, those great strapping fellows! Turn, turn, turn, what a weary go it was. For my part, I used to like a grindstone that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "a good deal on its axis, for when I tur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but between terms there are a thousand things on the farm that have been left for the boy to do. Picking up stones in the pastures and piling them in heaps used to be one of them. Some lots appeared to grow stones, or else the sun every year drew them to the surface, as it coaxe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on the spot, after a rough fashion boys have of settling as they go along; cases of long credit, either in words or trade, are not frequent with boys; boot on jack-knives must be paid on the nail; and it is considered much more honorable to out with a personal grievance at once,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This lock of hair, Which I did wear, Was taken from my head; When this you see, Remember me, Long after I am dead." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John was so outraged and shocked, as he should have been, at this rude invasion of his heart, this coarse suggestion, thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess you would n't like it yourself, said John," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got, little boy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's sweet-flag stalk; would you like some?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, I should like to taste it, said the lady, with a most winning smile." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I used to be very fond of it when I was a little girl." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know where it's ever so thick." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, thank you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want your cent. I don't sell flag!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little boy, how's your mar?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's pretty well, I thank you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does she know you are out?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a nice...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nature intended the long winter nights for the farmer-boy to sleep; but in my day he was expected to open his sleepy eyes when the cock crew, get out of the warm bed and light a candle, struggle into his cold pantaloons, and pull on boots in which the thermometer would have gone...