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20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you feel, Leon?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're on our way home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To America?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, to the _douzième_. We'll be... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are we still behind the German lines?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leon wants to know if we are still behind the German lines,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are, said Jacques,"
}
] |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rockets, I guess,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Jacques?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A train."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A German train?"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get your bombs ready and make 'em sure, he directed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going down pretty low and we won't be able to waste any time."
}
] |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yell when you want us to drop the bombs, Jacques,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the best plan I think, said Leon to his brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacques can see better than we ... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say so! shouted Earl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A perfect hit!"
}
] |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for home,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I think we've done a night's work all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That bomb certainly landed in the right spot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was on that train?"
},
{
... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think what those fellows down below are going through now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't envy them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor I, agreed Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've all been through that though and I suppos... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well done, Jacques, exclaimed Earl warmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're a wonder."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I'm stiff and cold,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so am I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have a man here who is slightly wounded, remarked Jacques to one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there any one around here now who can look after him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right this way, spoke up a soldier quickly."
},
{
... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all right, Leon maintained stoutly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what made me stumble; I guess I must be stiff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're weak, Leon, said his brother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What you ne... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That certainly feels better, sighed Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very much obliged to you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is nothing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a great deal to me, said Leon."
},
{
"from": "... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, laughed Earl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about our report?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was made just about fifteen hours ago; just after you went to sleep."
},
{
... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We certainly did, said Jacques."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major Villier seemed very much pleased with what we had done and he said he would see to it that we were mentioned at headquarters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were they worried about us ... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we'll be busy for a long while now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there'll be plenty who'll need attention after, this attack,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're safe for a while anyway, remarked Leon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
20995 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you comfortable?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Earl,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and your brother and your friend were in an ambulance and ran into a shell hole. You were all thrown out and your leg was broken."
},
{
"from"... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DAILY NEWS."
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BOYCOTTING"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "BOYCOTTED"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even after a rapid survey of this part of the West I cannot help contrasting the state of public opinion here with that prevailing in Dublin. In the capital--outside of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "where moderate counsels prevail--the alarmists appear to have it al... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was hard at work, and that, before proceeding to coercive measures, Mr. Forster was getting together all the trustworthy evidence that could be obtained as to the state of the country. As an instance of the absurd rumours flying about, I may mention that I was in the presence of... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was not an unusual occurrence, but that the queer townlet was a genuine centre of business activity. We sat up as late as the stench of paraffin from the lamps--for there is no gas--would allow us. Lizzie, literally a maid of all work, but dressed in a gown tied violently back, ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Divil the bad answer ye'll iver get, Sorr, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We just say, 'I will, Sorr,' and thin go away, and another gintleman says something, and ye're forgotten. Dy'e see, now? And away he went, and forgot everything. Being at Claremorris, ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it for himself. There remains in the ground at least five hundred pounds worth of potatoes and other root crops, and the owner has no possible means of doing anything with them. Nor, I am assured on trustworthy authority, would any human being buy them at any price; nor, if any ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hence either Mr. Boycott, with an escort armed to the teeth, or his wife without an escort--for the people would not harm her--must go to Ballinrobe after putting a horse in the shafts themselves, buy what they can, and bring it home. Everybody advises them to leave the country;... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rights or local customs. Accordingly he demanded payment from the people, who objected that they had always cut turf and pulled sedge on the mountain; that they could not live without turf for fuel and sedge to serve first as winter bedding for their cattle and afterwards as man... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it is called, in the manner usual during Irish disturbances--that is, four men and a sergeant of the constabulary were stationed at her house. In course of time, however, Mrs. Hunter felt comparatively safe, and the constables removed to a hut about two miles on the Newport r... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not very far off lies Croagh Patrick, the sacred mountain from which St. Patrick cursed the snakes and other venomous creatures and drove them from Ireland. I was assured by the car-driver that the noxious animals vanished into the earth at the touch of the Saint's bell."
},
... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but one of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is the semblance of a port without ships, and warehouses without goods, and quays overgrown with grass. Beyond Newport the country grows wilder. There is less cultivation, and behind every little shanty rises the gr... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as they call him in Northern England, to mount the stage and make a speech, which elicits loud shouts of laughter. Taking little heed of the pelting shower the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who wears a red bandanna lik... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Benjamin's mess against time; and when the feat is being performed by several persons the effect thereof is the reverse of appetising. But I would rather be driven seventy miles--Irish miles--on a car, and compelled to sit down to roast goose commingled with boiled beef and"
}... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are bitterly regretting their ill-judged promptitude. A large farm between this and Achill, or near Ballina on the north, or in the country extending from the spot where Lord Mountmorres was shot, towards Ballinrobe, Hollymount, Claremorris, or Castlebar, could hardly be let now... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a great deal of misconception concerning the condition of the people of the West and their attitude towards their landlords will be got rid of by substituting it for the word"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This protection is always granted when asked for, but many landlords have an almost invincible repugnance to go everywhere attended by armed police. Lord Ardilaun, I hear, has organised a little bodyguard of his own people, in preference to being followed about by the tall dark ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he is now embroiled with a portion at least of the Castlebar people, who think, rightly or wrongly, that the lord of the soil and collector of tolls and dues has something to do with providing the town with a market-place. Into the merits of the question it is hardly necessary t... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "any tradesmen who have dared to run counter to the current of present opinion. When a baker is told he must not do a certain thing he obeys at once, and, with a certain quickness and suppleness of intellect, casts about to see how he can best represent himself as a martyr."
},... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mayhap this is what the indigenous"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Castlebar Races. Ballina is a town of about six thousand inhabitants, situate on the river Moy--an excellent salmon stream which debouches into Killala Bay, the most important inlet of the sea between Westport and Sligo. Perhaps Ballina is the principal town in county Mayo; cert... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the sub-sheriff, the Royal Irish Constabulary, and her tenants. She is doubtless a resolute and determined woman, and possessed by a vigorous idea of the rights of property. If not descended from the celebrated Grace O'Malley, Queen of Connaught, she has at least equally autocra... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who, owing £24 for three years' rent, would part neither with a single shilling nor with the land. I thought this champion of the irreconcilables must be worth a visit, and foregoing the diversion of a call on Tom Molloy, a noted character in the Ballina district, I drove out in... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in a state of denudation, as my scientific friends would call it. It is not necessary to go far from the site of Whitechapel Church to find dwellings unutterably wretched. Two years ago I saw people reduced to one"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "pair of boots in Sheff... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "no living beast on the five-acre farm belongs to the tenant. The turkeys belong to a neighbour, as do the geese, and there is neither hen nor egg left on the premises."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where is everything?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way to serve the landlords. This ebullition was followed by shouts of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down wid 'em!"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and every kind of reprisal was hinted at in the event of Mr. Parnell being arrested. If he were seized, not a landlord in Ireland would be safe except in Dublin Castle. This kind of thing, accompanied by shouts of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down wid 'em! at every... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a famous mountain of this country, the sheep are seen feeding almost on the same level as the haunt of the golden eagles who breed here regularly. I believe that the valley of the Erriff was once well populated, but that after the famine the people were cleared off nearly 20 squ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Hamilton C. Smith three separate awards were made--28l. for four head of cattle driven or carried out to sea and drowned; 21l. for fourteen sheep maliciously driven off and removed; and again 17l. 10s. for fourteen sheep similarly treated. Houses and boats have been burned, a... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cattle, sheep, or horses. I was citing to a Mayo-man this defect of the so-called farmer, and was at once met by a prompt reply. The tendency to graze cattle, which is not hard work, and to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is called upon to support nearly seven hundred souls. A glance at the picturesque outline of the island will tell of the proportion of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that is moor and bog, upon it, and it is at once seen that unless there is either good fishing or som... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by the O'Flahertys, and then was owned by the Blakes, who disposed of part of their country to the present possessors. He knows perfectly well how the great Martin country came first into the hands of the Law Life Insurance Company, and then into those of Mr. Berridge, and how t... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Naturally the guardians of the minor are unwilling that the estate should be sold up, all possibility of improvement and recovery sacrificed, and themselves erased from the list of the county gentry. Landlords have as much objection to eviction and compulsory emigration as tenan... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as one of my informants phrased it, but were often composed of two or more patches, bits of productive land, taken here and there on the rough mountain. Doubtless this arrangement had its inconveniences, but the people were accustomed to it, and also set great store by the run o... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to Ballynahinch, there is visible at ordinary times very little but mountain, bog, and sky. Of stones and water, and of air marvellously bright and pure, there is no lack, and some of the scenery is of surpassing grandeur, especially on a day like yesterday, so fair and still th... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as others ascribe every evil to the middleman; but others again hold that the old proprietors, who remain on the land, fighting against encumbrances, are the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that the whips of cupidity cannot compare with the scorpions of poverty. B... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rather like a whale than a weasel, and includes some good rough mountain pasture, as well as green fields near its base. As one approaches it a ring of villages is seen delightfully situated, high for the most part above the sea and the green fields, and lying back against the h... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but would leave the peasant cultivators exactly as they are at present. It is quite true that in some of the most wretched places I have seen the rent is extravagantly high; but while exclaiming against attempted extortion, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that for the last two... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or surface drains about twenty inches deep and twenty inches wide at top, narrowing to six inches at the bottom. This process may be called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which begins to shrink visibly. The puffy rounded surface gradually sinks as the water runs off,... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and other systems."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure I was sick, your honour, and the farrum was gettin' desthroyed; or,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was too poor to buy seed for the whole of it, and let some at conacre to Thady O'Flaherty, that's... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "received me with high good humour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To Ballinrobe, your honour? he said, and drove off like a true son of Nimshi. As soon as he was fairly on the way, I said that I should like to drive to Ballinrobe by Lough Mask House."
},
{
"f... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "would he stir towards the accursed spot. He was good enough to say that he would not interfere with me. If I liked to walk, I was welcome to do it. Now a walk of seven Irish miles at sundown in a steady rain, over a line of road wat... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did your honour wish to set the country on me?"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two dark figures of the Royal Irish Constabulary occupy the front-door step, and others of the same keep watch and ward over stables and ground. Nearly three weeks of painful excitement had made but slight change in Mr. Boycott's family. His wife and daughter live under circumst... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were terribly knocked up by their walk of about thirteen miles from Claremorris, a fact which hardly speaks well for their thews and sinews, but in fairness it must be admitted that they were obliged to undertake their march after a long and fatiguing railway journey, at sundown... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Mr. Maxwell's, and several full-sized revolvers. This honest fellow confessed that digging potatoes and pulling mangolds were not his regular occupations, but that he had come"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and to show them there were still"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wad ye dig auld Boycott's pitaties, thin? There was no wit or humour racy of the soil, no flashes of bitter sarcasm, no pungent observations: everybody felt that the thing was going off like a damp firework, and that, bating the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dead Ma... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who hailed from Cavan insisted that they would foregather only with Cavan men, while the men of Monaghan were equally indisposed to give a Cavan man"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the language of those who dwell habitually on the banks of the river the wish is epigrammatically expressed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May the Robe be their winding-sheet."
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tiny threshing-machine, threshing Mr. Boycott's oats with all the seriousness and solemn purpose befitting their task. Nothing could have been more dreary and wretched than the entire proceedings. Mr. Boycott himself had discarded his martial array of yesterday, and appeared in ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thim that is snug, your honour, is slower in payin' than thim that is poor,"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in her circumstances. She has a farm or two, part of which is underlet of course. This is another peculiarity of Irish life very remarkable to the stranger. Everybody seems to do work by deputy. A proprietor of a landed estate, not worth a thousand pounds a year when interest is... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that is, a locality from which the peat had been cut away down to its rocky bed. For some distance nothing was visible but stones, on which the rain came plashing down like a cataract. But the aspect and situation of Omey Island are such as to suggest to the speculative mind a... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is a deadly reproach in this part of the country. Practically he is objectionable because, being one of the people, he is aware of their tricks and their ways, and suspects them as they hate and suspect him. What would be urbanity on the part of the real"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "after the manner of the old proprietors who, when they wanted fish for dinner, made their tenants obey their signal and put back, whatever might be the chance of the night's catch. This flag was, so"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "hung out often by the Bodkins, the an... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all; I take care of that, and out of the pocket of his lounging jacket he takes a revolver of very large bore. It is a curious picture, this drawing-room at Edenvale. On his own hearth-rug, in his own house, with a silky white Maltese lapdog and a beautiful terrier nestli... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in blocks, but remained in awkward patches, so that each man was obliged to cross the other's land, and perpetual squabbling occurred. So when the question of a new lease arose, Mr. Stacpoole sent a surveyor to divide the holding into three equal shares as justly and convenientl... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O'Connell's statue, said to have held thirty thousand people on a space which would not contain a fifth of that number, for its numerous banks, for its fine salmon river, the Fergus, for its police barrack, once the mansion of the Crowe family, and for its long since closed Turk... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whin he dies, may the heaven be his bed, and his statue should be beside O'Connell's in Ennis."
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the foremen and workmen from holding any converse with Mr. Charles George Mahon, whom he addressed personally as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and otherwise held up to scorn and derision. Perched on his crutches, the cripple defied him, and poured out a torrent of e... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "has been"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I went to see it. When I started the moon was shining so brightly that it would have been impossible to miss a landlord at forty yards. The sky was as blue and clear as that of Como or Lugano; but the wind which swept over Ballyala's sapphire lake was of a"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "we strolled through the town in contemplative mood. Not a shop was open. Not a blind was drawn. Not a soul was stirring excepting the blacksmith, who had been knocked up comparatively early by the market folk. There was ample time and space to inspect the fierce but sleepy-heade... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "will be easy to drain, and it is tolerably certain that within twelve months the first instalment will be ready for cropping. It is a sight to make a Dutchman's mouth water--a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different li... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Mr. Parnell suggests, so much the better, especially since it has become manifest by the example of the Marquis of Conyngham's estate that purchasers, other than tenants, are hardly to be found for Irish property. And--as the agent of a great absentee landholder observed to m... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which inclines the lesser landlord to get the rent out of his tenant, but his own need, which drives him to extreme measures. In bitterness of spirit he bewails his dulness in not following the example of some of his peers in getting rid of their tenantry and farming their land ... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said a small landholder to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry for this gentleman, for I know that he is what is called in commerce a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or one who can afford neither to conduct his business with a firm hand no... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night, but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Safe home."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the bell is found to be broken, the knocker wrenched off, t... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three and Four Year Olds, the tradition whereof hath a rich and racy savour. Readers of the _Daily News_ will hardly need to be reminded that this historic vendetta commenced with a dispute concerning the age of a bull, one disputant maintaining that the animal was four, while t... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on the part of the police,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "against them and refuse to supply them with food or forage. Pursuing the road past Castlegard I meet another crowd of tenants and learn that they also have been to a rent gathering, and have been offered accep... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "not at issue with each other, but united like brothers against the common enemy. Fearful howls arise from the railway bridge and the railway station, both covered with Palladians, male and female. A thoroughly good Irish yell of... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at a convenient hour, but they are sure to be taken at a disadvantage before nine o'clock. The Palladians rubbed their eyes to find the classic battle-ground of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three Year Olds and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four Y... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand figures, but my terms are a shilling per pound every month. It is easy to reckon up without going into sums on slates. This poor innocent was charging just 60 per cent., but his terms were lavishly liberal as compared with those of the _gombeen_ man. Instead o... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "except for sums under four or five pounds. The unfortunates who are short of a sovereign or two must look up their old friend in the back shop smelling of bacon, tallow, pepper, tea, and whisky, just as their social superiors seek the intrepid sixty per cent. man of St. James's,... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "into court or into any bank whatsoever; and the cash held by both farmers and peasants runs, in the opinion of many well qualified to judge, sore risk of diminution before any comprehensive measure can pass through Parliament. Even the well-to-do farmers will be called upon to e... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "over the fire, extolling the virtues of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and comparing him with the new one, very much to the disadvantage of the latter. It is not remarkable that such comparisons should be instituted. The people have very little to do, and do that... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who had left him an annuity of eight shillings per week, and not unmindful of the virtues of the new one, who keeps him on the establishment as an interesting"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and lodges, feeds, and clothes him, in order that he may not be obliged to di... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--literally eaten up by hungry retainers and tenants. He mentioned one family in particular, whose income sank from 12,000l. to nothing a year under the ancient system which united almost every possible defect. The tenants were not, it is true, charged a heavy rent in money, bec... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to pay 5l. more than either of the others, as having the best farm. The brothers on the outside sections have prospered. One has saved some hundreds of pounds; the other has given good, substantial portions to his three daughters. No objection was made to the manner in which the... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "after the manner of that of the irreconcilable Tom Browne, of Cloontakilla, county Mayo. Hence, Laurence Griffin, a labouring man, with an acre patch of land to his house, was given the job of looking after the hay, and occasionally summoning Sullivan for trespass. It must be un... |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the speaker was"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot 'um, says they,"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did we come out for to-night? growled the chief;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Muffled groans followed this appeal, and encouraged the spokesman to add,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we go back as we came, boys?"
}
] |
19160 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is one of the most interesting places in the south of Ireland. It is not only the centre of a rich agricultural country and the abode of an improving landlord, Sir George St. John Colthurst, of Ardrum, but the seat of an important manufacture of woollens, a rare and curious indu... |
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