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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace --A Wonderful Institution--The Girls and the Patrons--Scenes of Revelry--How Nights were Passed--The Loss of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palace" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and floundered in the shallow waters of English syntax. He has talked with crushed poets who cried out against the stupidity of the world, and read their own verses, more limping than the Count Joannes as _Romeo_. He has listened to straight-laced Puritans pray to be made more C...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Wickedest Man in the World." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "SAILOR BOY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "offered to lead the way to the police station where they might get assistance in recovering the money. He did lead the way, but it is unnecessary to add that there were not a great many police stations in the neighborhood to which he conducted them. The Hebrew perhaps thought th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dat vas a fine idea--a very fine idea! answered the old vulture, rubbing his bony hands together." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You brings 'em in, and I'll take care of how they goes out. And together ve'll take care of all their gold!" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and prevented him from remaining" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Jacket." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want a stove for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To keep house with! was the prompt reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you will trust me for that stove, I'll pay you as sure as I live!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have done wrong, but I will not cast you off; try to redeem the past by making your life pure hereafter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Belle. His idea was to get to New York, and then to strike out at whatever presented itself. The captain of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Belle evinced a good deal of interest in the boy, and proposed to take him to his home in the country when the boating seaso...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Humboldt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gymnasium." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you don't belong here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that don't make any difference, answered the young salt, vigorously working with the bells;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll do th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Humboldt, which he accordingly did. Devoting pretty much all his time to the practice of boxing, he soon became wonderfully expert for one of his age, and was known in sporting circles as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Sailor Boy. Under the patronage of Billy Cla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SPHINX" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got four aces!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One minute! said the gambler." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I beat your four aces. _I have got five jacks!_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The money is certainly his," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like a job?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like nothing better," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you particular about the kind of work?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am ready for anything," }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five hundred dollars," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The astonished bar keeper took the money, and did as directed. Then Hogan invited the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Naiad Queen, brought out under Capt. Smith's management. The show was one that would hardly have passed muster in a New York theatre, but it drew a big house in Oswego, and it gave Ben an idea. Returning to Syracuse he got a lot of posters printed, setting forth, in glowing term...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is this Ben Hogan, anyway?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, didn't you ever hear of him? Ben would reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's a bad man, I tell you--the strongest man in the world. I know him myself, and if you don't want to miss ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That, he would say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "was composed entirely of Hogan. The bills announced first a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which Ben, dressed in tights, and with enough chalk and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whitney Brothers at the hotel, and as the show yielded three hundred dollars, it is safe to assume that the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you what it is, he exclaimed, bringing his fist down on the bar with an emphatic thump," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can lick any man that ever came from the North!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm from the North, he said," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, I am shot!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That beats me," }, { "from": "human", "value": "One minute, said Ben, throwing down the cards, and rising to his feet;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean?" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am unarmed, gentlemen, and I trust to your honor not to shoot me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh the devil take your honor, rejoined the Southerner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You leave that money alone and get out of here, or we'll put a bulle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "America" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Planter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, said Ben," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Planter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burnside," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This man? the crew shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sail with him? Why, he's a pirate, a cut-throat, a murderer! He'll kill us all! He's Ben Hogan!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burnside" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mail! mail! I've got the mail!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Burnside," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean? he cried angrily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't I told yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Jove, you've grown fat since I saw you last!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's take a walk up Broadway," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cosmopolitan. He first made himself conspicuous in that town by giving a trapeze performance at the top of the ship's mast, which attracted a big crowd, and which set the inhabitants at once to talking about Ben Hogan. Soon afterward he was introduced to Gen. Foster, who gave hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cosmopolitan" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You gave me poison, and do you know what I am going to do to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to kill you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Forty Thieves," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "three hundred dollars for his freedom, which offer was refused, he suddenly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah--you Yankees are always picking your--ah--nails, and looking about for a chance--ah--to swindle somebody out of his--ah--money!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vat vas dot you vas say? demanded Ben, looking up from his nails, and assuming the German dialect;" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Irish Giant; while Hogan became the champion of his native country, appearing on the bills as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Benedict, the German Hercules. Intense excitement prevailed over the proposed contest. The city divided itself into two elements, the Irish po...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with the officers if they would give him permission to exchange his" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you are, now. Anybody who wants small bills, step right up and get 'em changed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yah you are, Massa, suah nuff! Done gwine me some o' dat small change, mighty quick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "every dollar of his" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where you bound for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For the oil regions," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The oil regions--where's that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, in Pennsylvania, of course. More life there than anywhere else in the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I'm broke!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, raise what you can, answered Ben," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heenan's Cottage --a famous resort for the sporting fraternity--he very soon showed that he could use his hands in a thoroughly scientific manner. This, of course, made him" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who would put on the gloves" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hill naturally supposed that he had a soft thing, but that idea left him by the time four rounds had been fought. He was so used up that he did not want any more of the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "French Kate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ben, if you lose this fight you shall cease to be a friend of mine!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am unarmed, and only one against four. Give a man some sort of a show for his life. Let me have one revolver, and I'll take my chances against you all!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stonehouse Jack," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe there's anybody in the house that can do that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, by thunder, you're a muscular crowd! But I tell you--it's one thing to lift up the weights, and another to keep 'em up. Now I'll bet the drinks for the house that you can't hold the weights up, say for two minutes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said Hank," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waal, now, I want teu know if that's the way they did it! exclaimed the first dealer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bet if I'd a been down there they wouldn't a drafted me!" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Lord bless you, I can pick out that kerd every time. Don't you see it's got a mark on it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go him fifty this time, suggested Ben." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, make it a hundred, and I'll stand in with you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There she is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hogan, I find that there are five indictments against you, all growing out of the charge of keeping a disorderly house. I need not specify the charges, as you know well enough what they are. Do you plead guilty or not guilty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not guilty...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, sir, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you to tell me what sort of exercises you put these ladies through?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Light gymnastic exercise is what I call it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halt!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hand over your money without kicking, and you are all right. Make any show of resistance, and you drop where you stand!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, said he, quietly, and without the slightest indication of fear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said one of the robbers," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you, answered Ben, speaking in a low, rapid tone." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Could you tell me, sir, where I could find a German minister?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have the honor to be a clergyman, and I am also a German. What can I do for you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A friend of mine wants to get married to-night...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was a beauty, and no mistake," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A beauty, was she?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She was, as sure as you live, replied Ben, who failed to see that he was heaping coals of fire upon her inflammable nature." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Understand, gentlemen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will shoot down the first man who undertakes to murder anybody coming out of this place!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Scotty," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, you will oblige me by retiring at once. Go out, if you please, as you came in; and the first one who attempts to turn about or to draw a weapon will drop!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who's to shoot first?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You kill him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For if I am, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be lynched. Let me take my chances against these men, but don't take away from me all means of self-defense!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want simply a fair trial, and nothing more. Let every man tell what he knows about the shooting, but let him be careful not to perjure himself. For I announce here that the first witness who goes upon that stand and swears to what is false I will kill in just three seconds. Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A hundred that the ace loses!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two hundred that it loses this time!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Four hundred that she loses now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is seven hundred dollars in all that I have lost, is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven hundred!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take up the counters and put this on the ace. I repeat my bet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to get what honestly belongs to me. You have seized upon my furniture, bedding and other articles, and now I want you to fork over the price of the same. If you make any disturbance I may be obliged to call upon these friends for assistance!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hear, said Ben," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're right it is, answered Cummings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been trying to get up a fight for a long time now, but I never could bring him to time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go my pile on that man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, said Ben, who wanted to get at once down to business," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what I say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, now, suppose Hogan was to come in here now, (they were in the Arcade saloon at the time)" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, Hogan. That won't do!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that little bill of yours! I had forgotten all about it. Call around at my place when I am in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There you are, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be you Hogan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir, answered Ben, promptly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Hogan is not in just at present; but I am a pupil of his." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waal, neow! said the countryman." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Waal, neow; you got me that time! exclaimed the countryman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Suppose we try it once for the first knock-down?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will give you, said Ben," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(this was about the market price)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Police! Police!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I have tried to stop, said the young man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, answered Ben," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a soft thing you've got, Ben," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you going to do with the girl, anyway?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She must be a plucky one," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said Ben," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've lost my ear!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've lost my nose!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've lost my pocket-book!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only man we want, now, observed the judge, just as our hero made his appearance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Ben, joining in the conversation," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hogan ought to be hung." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace --A Wonderful Institution--The Girls and the Patrons--Scenes of Revelry--How Nights were Passed--The Loss of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palace." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace, and floated in the Allegheny river, between the counties of Allegheny and Armstrong. Whenever the officials of either one of these counties undertook to raid the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace, I shall ask the reader to imagine a brilliantly-lighted saloon, filled with dashing-looking women, and melodious with music. Not everybody could gain access to this floating hall of revelry. Two small boats were kept running from the shore to the" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Palace" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Floating Palace was most unquestionably a novelty in its way. As a novelty, it possessed a valuable charm in those days--a charm of exciting speculation, and it was also the means of rapidly circulating money." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Palace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Floating Palace, and while these worthies were enjoying themselves in the saloon with the girls, he ordered the ropes to be cut, and the boat floated down the stream. Before this was discovered by the jolly company inside, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Palace" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Palace" } ]