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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seems as if the castle must be perched on a high piece of ground, commanding a pretty good view of the country around," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The story goes that Judge Randall built it that way so he could keep watch, and know if any of his wife's former suit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A whopping big foot made that mark," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And see there, added Alec, hastily, also in a low tone," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anyhow, Billy was heard to whisper to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look! there's a glimpse of the castle!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The trail keeps right on, Hugh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! what did you think you heard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It must have been voices somewhere ahead of us, came the answer." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see them, Hugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show me where," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it looks to me as if they might be only a pair of Weary Willies, who had wandered up here from tramping ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell us what you've got there, Monkey," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's do, added Billy, anxiously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! shucks! it's only a sort of wild-goose call I tried to make from directions I read in a little book, confess...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, I saw him wave his hand to us from that slit in the stone wall of the tower! hissed Alec, presently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's managed to find a way to get inside after all, and now the fun's going to begin." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now they are talking it over again, whispered Alec." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The short one is pointing as if he believes they can find a much easier way to get inside than trying to smash the door down. Hey! Monkey, better get busy or you'll find the pair tread...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't all laugh at once," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, did I do the thing up in good style, boys?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should say you did, Monkey! burst out Billy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Makes me think of one of Aesop's fables I used to read ever so long ago, about the lion and the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait up a bit, please, fellows! suddenly exclaimed Alec." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I couldn't find a better view of the castle than right here, with that sun blazing along the walls, the turrets and that magnificent donjon tower. I want every one of you to be in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the morning, if the weather holds good, he remarked as he gave them the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that he was through, and that they need not pose any longer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean to pick up a couple of views from the other side...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whew! it has about forty rooms all told, I should say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonder how Aunt Susan will like the blooming old shack?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You, said, she wanted it quiet, you know, Alec, observed Hugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I defy any one to find a place that fills that bill better than this one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll try the floor to-night, boys, said Hugh, as he started to spread his blanket out in regulation style." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it proves to be too hard for us, perhaps we can put in the second night outdoors somewhere. That will depend on the weather, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in the mischief can it be?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm bound to find out what makes that noise, as sure as anything can be," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ghosts, eh? Well, I've always said there never existed any, and perhaps I'll have a chance right now to prove it, one way or the other. A queer kind of a hobgoblin that must be to keep whimpering like a baby, and then fluttering to beat the band. But what in the wide world can i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing certain, muttered Hugh, between his set teeth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever it may be, Hugh was telling himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it's only a family of owls after all, he said, in great relief," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I heard it, too, Hugh, whispered Alec, with a half grin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Woke up and found you gone when I put out my hand to feel your blanket. Then I caught those awful ghoulish sounds somewhere. Wanted to creep after you, but say, I own up I didn't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell you what, he presently whispered, as a last thought," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello! Is it safe to come out; and is the coast clear of ghosts?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing doing in the ghost line, Billy, Hugh told him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you say anything about _eating_, he observed as he started to finish his dressing with feverish haste," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Another thing, said Alec," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's our only chance to sleep out, said the Stallings boy," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should say that Alec ought to be able to take all the pictures he needs of this old rookery this morning...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I forgot to ask if anybody heard a ghost laugh in the night? he demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once I happened to wake up, and imagined I could hear somebody laughing away off in the distance; but say, I only pulled my head further under my blanket, and wen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gee whiz! ejaculated Billy, heaving a great sigh of relief," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I honestly began to believe you meant to tell us that turret-tower room was the place where the tragedy happened, and that Hugh had watched it all being repeated over again. Ow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you Aunt Susan will be tickled half to death when she gets prints of these pictures, he remarked again and again as he worked, never missing a single object that he considered would lend additional enchantment to the views." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I oug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How would it do for us to root around a bit while we have the time?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you mean, Hugh told him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, supplemented Arthur," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to hear you say that, old weather bureau prophet," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen! called out Monkey Stallings about this time, for he happened to have remarkable hearing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seemed to me that was some one talking over yonder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mebbe the tramps have come back after all,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold up your hands there, every one of you, and don't try to run, or it will be the worse for you. We've tracked you up here, and you're under arrest. Steady now!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do what he says, fellows!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this a joke? asked Alec Sands, with a tinge of a sneer in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If so I want to say it's in pretty bad taste, don't you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll find it a serious kind of a joke, young fellow," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you'll be kind enough to explain what we're being held up this way for?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you all, anyway?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our suits ought to tell you that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are Boy Scouts, said Hugh, hastily, seeing the men frown at Alec's impatient remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We belong in Oakvale, and have come up here to spend a couple of days camping out. Besides that one of us has been commissioned to take some picture...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon we've been and made a mistake this time, Pete, he said, turning to his companion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These young chaps don't look like they'd have a hand in trying to get a crazy man free, after the law had shut him up in an asylum!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now that I think of it, he remarked presently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Several of us were there, and had great times, I assure you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, yes, the shorter guard now remarked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See that red scar on the back of my hand? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I got that up there fighting the fire on the mountain that was trying to wipe out the home ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That isn't his name at all, he told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This man did something terrible, and his money hired the best lawyers in the country to defend him. In the end he was called insane, and sent to the asylum. Then his folks tried every way they k...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've known some queer happenings in our camping out experiences, fellows, he told the others, as they started in to dispose of the immense amount of food the generous fat scout had cooked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the first time, however, we've had for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, they're gone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To tell the honest truth, he admitted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ain't sorry a bit. Those fellows could give me points about how to stow stuff away, and then not half try. Why, they acted as if they were hollow clean down to their shoes. I guess they told the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was just thinking, he finally broke out with," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take it all in all, he remarked, reflectively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We certainly have had more than our share of things happening to us, admitted Alec, proudly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hear! hear! exclaimed Billy, clapping his hands," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, will you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my stars! what do you call that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh! what can it be?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've got me up against a hard proposition when you ask me that, Alec!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you can't even give a guess, can you, Hugh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We all heard the racket, that's sure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And it sounded just like a dozen, yes, three dozen men shouting like anything," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder-----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you've got an idea hurry and tell us what it is! urged the impatient Alec." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not on your life, Alec, much as I would like to oblige you! asserted the fat scout, positively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want company when there's all sorts of strange things happening around. You don't catch me sticking to this camp by my lonely. Stay back y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One thing sure, to begin with, remarked Hugh, after they had left the camp behind them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! that's an easy nut to crack! declared Monkey Stallings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The sounds came right down the wind, and an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "W-what's it all mean, Hugh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare, who would ever have believed it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you guessed, Hugh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you fellows will look over to one side to where that man was turning the handle of some sort of box just as if he might be an organ grinder, you'll guess what it all means," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Motion-picture actors at work!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! did you ever hear of such a thing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure thing! added Arthur, grinning now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That chap is the camera man---what is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sun is just right for a cracker-jack snap-shot from here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, I reckon they're staging another picture over yonder, boys! cried Arthur, as a new bustle was noticed amidst the group of players." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two of the men appear to have been knocked out in that attack, for there's a chap who looks like h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whee, if all that scrapping was half-way real! burst out the admiring Billy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is pretty near the genuine thing. said Hugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've often wondered whether they faked those wonderful affairs, bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get a grip on yourself, Alec, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold yourself steady, or else you'll be making some fearful blunder, and spoiling the best chance you ever had to get a prize picture. Now they are starting in again, you see!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! why can't we get closer than this, Hugh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing to hinder that I can see, he was told." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fact is, I was going to suggest that same thing myself. So let's get a move on, fellows." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you boys spring from, I'd like to know?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you see, sir, we happen to belong to a scout troop over in Oakvale, explained Hugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We came up here to spend the weekend, and transact some business at the same time. This chap here, Alec Sands, has a peculiar old aunt in the city...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say you so, my young friend? he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, if we leave any part of the old ruin intact when we're through with this series of startling pictures the old lady can doubtless buy it at a small figure." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Although all this seems very wonderful to you boys, he went on to remark, lighting a cigarette as he spoke, at which he took several puffs and then nervously threw it away again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you must have been around some, sir?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, Billy was saying, becoming more and more audacious, it seemed, on the principle that give one an inch and he will want an ell---" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder now if he'd listen to me if I asked him to let us have a chance to get in the next pictu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure he did, retorted the other, with a shrug of his shoulders as if he pitied Billy's ignorance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whee! Billy was saying half to himself as he stared at the bustling scene," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "CASTLE." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, there goes the signal!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the former desperate assault had f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ivanhoe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's coming soon now, fellows!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only one more picture!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "from the narrow window slits in the tower room. The" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, oh, look! was what he shrieked, excitedly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to thank you from my heart, son, he told the pleased scout master, as he gripped his hand in a warm clutch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have proved yourself a jewel in this emergency. If this is one of the things scouts learn, I'm glad my boy has taken ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had another boy some years back, I want to tell you, he said, softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was drowned while swimming in the river. His companions succeeded in getting Tad out, but they were utterly ignorant as to how to go to work to restore him to co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if that winds up the whole show?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not on your life, Billy, observed Alec," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! are they going to make out to burn the old castle down? Is that worrying you, Alec?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it is, frankly confessed Alec." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, remarked Alec, flippantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It goes without saying that eventually knight in shining armor, Ivanhoe, or whoever he may be, gets to the locked door of the turret tower room, bursts his way through, and saves the lovely maiden, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man insures his home, Hugh often said in explanation of this habit," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I notice that they are meaning to use two machines and a couple or camera men, so as to get all the excitement down pat," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One is to be kept busy outside, explained Hugh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Huh! it's too serious a business to do much laughing, grunted Billy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm just itching all over to see how it comes out. There, that must have b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wind, don't you see it's whipped around, and is coming from a new quarter? was the tenor of what he called in the other's ear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that fire gets away from those supers it's going to give them a heap of trouble! Yes, it will chase th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must do something, and right away at that! called Hugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come along with me, every one, I've got a scheme that may be made to work." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lay hold of that ax, Alec!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to get to the roof of that tower! he told the others, as they drew near the fire, and could begin to feel the heat it was beginning to throw out as it crept upward, whipped by the rising wind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Billy, I want you and Arthur to s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, Billy was heard to remark when the boys could break away from the excited players, all of whom wanted to squeeze their hands, and say what they thought of the clever work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't forget every minute of the time that camera man was t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I had a letter from my Aunt Susan in this afternoon's mail," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About that place up in the country where we spent our last week-end outing, and had such a lively time---eh, Alec?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's my opinion, remarked Walter, sagely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what can it be? asked Jack Durham." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The whole entertainment to-night is made up of Professor Wakefield with his violin, and three selected moving ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If that isn't the old place called Randall's Folly, I'll eat my hat!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey! it's coming, you mark my words if it isn't! he hissed in the other's ear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just look at Billy Worth there, bobbing up ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a whole lot of fun while it lasted, Hugh was telling a bunch of the fellows, after the show was over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But when a thing is done with you can't extract much enjoyment out of the memory. What I'm more concerned about right at this, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stone Yard," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Davits an' stanchions, men--never mind the rail, said the boatswain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ladies, better move your chairs back a little. Rowland, climb down out o' that--you'll be overboard. Take a ventilator--no, you'll spill paint--put your bucket away an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? he muttered, wearily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seen the sea-serpent, Myra, or the Flying Dutchman? What's up?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, George--no, she answered in agitated tones." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rowland, you say? bawled the officer above the howling of the wind." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he the man who was lifted aboard, drunk, yesterday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he still dru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something ahead, sir--can't make it out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sing out what you see," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hard aport, sir--ship on the starboard tack--dead ahead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Port your wheel--hard over,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "H--l and d-- growled the first officer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steady on your course, quartermaster, he shouted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stand from under on deck. He turned a lever which closed compartments, pushed a button marked--" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May the curse of God light on you and your cheese-knife, you brass-bound murderers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put men at the hatches and doors. Send every one who comes on deck to the chart-room. Tell the watchman to notice what the passengers have learned, and clear away that wreck forward as soon as possible. The voice of the officer was hoarse and strained as he gave these directions...