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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Bill! Bill! here we are left among savages; may be we shall never get away, but have to spend all the days of our lives with them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, not long ago you wanted to remain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was when I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Bill, I do believe these people are Christians," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So I suppose, Tom, if it is the Bible they are reading," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No doubt about it, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If they are ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you like to go to them again, or live on with me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I like you very much, but I love my mother and brothers and sisters much more, and if I have the chance, I shall try to go back to them," }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to that, you have been driven three hundred miles to the westward of it, if it's the island I fancy from your account, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will take you a pretty long time to get there; but I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll give the canoe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There she spouts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where away?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Away, my boys; away, my boys: 'tis time for us to go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is going down," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; he spouts again, he spouts again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but he'll be down again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and boiling it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At night, when" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on for your lives," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out boats! was the cry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The ship is sinking." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trust in God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us trust in God. Let us pray that He will send us help." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you know me, Captain Bolton?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! Tom Trueman! I should say, if I didn't believe that he has long ago been in another world, he exclaimed;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast ready, breakfast ready," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Martha, I hope that we shall have a house ready for you and the little ones in a few days in case rain should come on. We've got stuff enough to build it with," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We do very well at present in the hut, answered his wife, smiling." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot give you work, but I can give you advice, and maybe help, said Mr Forster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you cannot get work at home, take your family to a British colony. I am sending some people off to Canada, to a brother of mine who is settled there;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the reason is early, I hope that we may get a spring burn of three or four acres more; said Michael to his boys." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then we'll plant it with Indian-corn, and pumpkins, and potatoes, and turnips, and carrots, and cabbages, and onions, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fanny sends her love to Susan, and is very glad she is coming home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us get on shore, for we shall have the rain down thick upon us, cried Tony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall keep dry if we get under a tree." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is well that we were not on shore, said Rob." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! oh! we are all going to be washed away!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No fear, Tom, said Tony;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lie down at the bottom of the canoe, said Rob to Tommy, who looked frightened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Tony, paddle your best." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh save me, Rob! save me! save me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Swim across the stream, lad, and I'll come to you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That eddy will help us, said Rob:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must give it up, I fear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor, poor Tommy! Oh dear! oh dear! cried Tony." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why did he go and do it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will be sad news at home, said Rob." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The White Stag. Accommodation for man and beast. Except, however, a gallon of whiskey, a jar of beef-tallow, and some Indian-corn bread, he had nothing to set before his guests. The bread and tallow was washed down with burnt-crust coffee, as they did not touch the whiskey." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, boys, we must hurry on, or we shall not easily find the blaze again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is the track?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, said Tony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The stag kept a straight line, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must soon find the blaze, Rob said more than once; but he was wrong. Night drew on. No blaze was to be found." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must make a camp before it is too dark," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never fear about me; I'll be broad awake till it's time to call Tommy again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope that they are a long way off." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rob! Rob! Tommy! wolves!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dare say now that those fellows have got some carcase or other, and are making merry over it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must find the blaze before breakfast," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why if this isn't the very place where we killed the deer and there is our venison still hanging up in the tree, which the brutes couldn't get at, and that made them howl so," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When shall we find our way out of this, Rob?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be in a day or two, may be in a week," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, youngsters, where have you come from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much out, youngsters; why you are scarcely more than two hundred yards from the blaze, and haven't been for some time past, the old man replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see that you are young travellers, and I may help you a bit may be, said the old man;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a rich country, indeed, continued old Marks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just think of the numbers of deer, the moose, with a heavy head, bigger than the largest horse; and the caribou, rather smaller, but more fleet; and then there's the elk, and other sm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the very thing, said Mr Landon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have bought two sleighs, one which I want to send home at once, as it is for the use of my wife and daughters. You shall take Susan in it, if your brother will wait two or three days longer, and dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No fear, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be we'll catch up Rob, if he isn't very smart," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and they almost knocked up their horse before half the day's journey was over. The evening was drawing on, and they were still a long way from Roland's shanty. Tony was driving, and making their tired horse go on as fast as he could, when Tommy, looking over his shoulder, saw a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I had Rob's gun I'd pay off those brutes, cried Tony," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hit him with the butt end," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, youngster, well done, cried a man who just then stepped out of the bush." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I hadn't come just in the nick of time it would have been the worse for you, though." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must let me go ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some Indian just warming himself this cold day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be, it's no business of ours," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boys, if a fellow-creature is in distress, it's our business to go and see if we can help him, observed old M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He'd have been frozen to death in a few more minutes, said Marks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Light a fire, lads, quick, and we'll warm him up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Arrah, it was the whiskey, the whiskey did it all; ahone, ahone! if it wasn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to write over his head, `Drink did it,' said the old man:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, Pat, how did it happen?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, do you see, Pater and I was going to do some work for a new settler at the farther e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, Tommy; eh boy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A big tree has come down at Mr Sudbury's clearing, and killed, or pretty nigh killed, some one. Nobody knows who it is, but I hope it's not father, nor Mr Hale either." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You, Mrs Hale, stay and take care of Mrs Kemp," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope, Miss Landon, that you are not afraid of bears." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because I see the fresh marks of one on the snow, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We may meet the gentleman...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No fear, Miss Mary, said Tony, as he saw her looking about;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you he wouldn't hurt us, said Tony;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They had not, however, gone far, when Tony, looking over his shoulder, cried out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here he comes though; but don't fear, there's a rise a little fart...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is John Kemp, he is there in the hut," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless you, Miss Mary, said Michael Hale, when he saw her come to assist his friend;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God's will be done, whispered John Kemp, when he heard of his wife...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be done though, said Rob;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No sooner did they open the door than they heard a strange squeaking from the pig-sty, which, they had wisely built at some little distance from the house. It was a bitter night. They stopped an instant...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mother, do you go back to the Hales and ask for help, and I will run on and see what can be done at once," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Biddy, a shovel!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be his death if he goes up there, said Mrs Landon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you must work, Rob, help us to get out the furniture." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've seen salt melt snow. If there is in the house a cask of meat in brine that may help us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mrs Landon, ma'am, I hope that you will honour us by coming down and taking up your abode with us till the roof is on again, said Mrs Hale in a kind voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Susan will take care of Miss Mary and the little ones, and Mr Landon and you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope it will teach her not to steal sugar for the future," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's one thing, however, I want to do first, that is to see you and mother in a well-plastered house, he said, after he had got Michael's consent to his marriage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll get that put up during the summer, and this old log-house will d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come shore--you have part," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's yours and father's, mother, just an offering from your children, said Rob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you will let Fanny and me have the old one, we hope to make ourselves happy in it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't go," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell them I'm going for a soldier, and ask for food. They'll not refuse me, I thought. I stepped in, and told them my tale. They all seemed much pleased." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must have pluck in you, my lad, to do that, said one;" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, my lad, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What regiment are you for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you come from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did you enlist?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now then, young 'uns, strip; get into that bath; scrub and clean yourselves, cried the sergeant;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recruit Armstrong, pass at once into the inspection-room." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand on one leg. I did so." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now on the other. Bend over until you touch the ground." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rise a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not in the least." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, my boy, get under that standard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he all right, doctor? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perfectly so, sir, was the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will do, my boy; you can go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All's well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right dress. Eyes front. Stand at ease," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To what regiment did you belong, young man, before you joined the 90th?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To none," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so sure of that," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and another old soldier" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hist, hist, soldier; turn back and come with me. It's a long way I'll be after taking ye, but it's better than being shot any how." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who are you, and where are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's me, Pat Nolan, then, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here he is!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll just show that I don't require it;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I thought that I had shot you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More regiments ordered for foreign service, exclaimed Marshall; for, strange to say, he was as eager as any one about going. He wanted to be doing something, poor fellow, to keep his mind away from Kathleen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See, here's a list,--others ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "regiment, the well-known" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forty-and-twa" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; that will do, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you anxious to obtain promotion?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, I answered, not a little pleased." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well; you have come with a good ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand to your arms, was the cry," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand to your arms." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up, Guards and Highlanders, and at them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you fire?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I only wish that every man in the army possessed the same spirit, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let him be released. And now let me tell you that I shall have the satisfaction of report...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-day and to-morrow the army must remain on the ground to remove the wounded and to bury the dead, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regret to say that the dead are very numerous, especially among the Guards and Welsh Fusiliers. The wounded must at once be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I thought, and I dare say others thought too," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, my boys, I'll pay you off for that, and give you a warm one in return," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Traitor, deserter, scoundrel, I know you! Yield!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a kind, noble offer, said Marshall;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will accept it and return,--work for him as long as I live." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For distinguished conduct in the field." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, Jack; I'm glad you've got that. You've earned it, that you have, my boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah Jack, I'll do something to try and gain that, to carry home to her;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, boys, cried Marshall, who had been for some time under the shelter of the parapet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm resolved to gain my promotion to-day; who'll follow? We'll take those guns." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is in the hands of One who knows how to reward and punish," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was his comrade and friend, poor fellow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure that's yourself, Mr Armstrong." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, my lad; and who are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pat Nolan; sure and it's many a day I've been looking for you, answered the lad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Close cover," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very good, said Mr Ramsay, as he folded up the letter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir; that is my good woman out there by the dray, and this is our eldest boy, Sam," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you come from?" }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll pay the fellow off who brought the matter before the master's eyes, growled John Butt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's that new chum; I saw him looking at the sheep. What business has he to come and interfere with our ways?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came out here to look after sheep and oxen, and I understand that work, I have a good master and fair wages, and I'll not desert my master, or change my work." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, Jos, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is to say, you want _me_ to join you in robbing our good master," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call it what you like, answered Tony," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I'll have nothing to do with the matter, said Joseph stoutly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, mate, don't say anything about it. If you don't think it should be, we'll let it alone, and no harm will have been done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What has he been saying to you? asked Mat, looking up from his bed, for he had already turned in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No good, I'll warrant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's just what he said to me some time back; but he found that he wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may be thought that I want to curry favour. Still, if I find out more things certain against this man, it will be my duty to inform the master." } ]