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21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Was Sarah Joyce brought here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look for Mary Donovan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Sarah's husband,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I am blam... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ-thorn"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Merry Christmas to you all!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them stockin's o' yourn 'll be the death o' Santa Claus! he shouts after them, as they dodge. And they, looking back, snap saucily,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mind yer business, freshy! But their laughter belies their words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, sister! he pipes;"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're having Christmas!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beefsteak John's it is content with artistically embalming crullers and mince-pies in green cabbage under the window lamp. Over yonder, where the mile-post of the old lane still stands,--in its unhonored old age ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is in progress. Crowds are trying their luck at breaking the glass balls that dance upon tiny jets of water in front of a marine view with the moon rising, yellow and big, out of a silver sea. A man-of-war, with lights burning aloft, labors under a rocky coast. Groggy sailormen,... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is about to begin. From the concert hall, where men sit drinking beer in clouds of smoke, comes the thin voice of a short-skirted singer, warbling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do they think of me at home? The young fellow who sits near the door, abstractedly makin... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "where the saloons elbow one another at every step, crowding out all other business than that of keeping lodgers to support them. Within call of it, across the square, stands a church which, in the memory of men yet living, was built to shelter the fashionable Baptist audiences o... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Bend the philanthropist undertaker who"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "hails the Yule-tide season with a pyramid of green made of two coffins set on end. It has been a good day, he says cheerfully, putting up the shutters; and his mind is easy. But the"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--known to the directory as Baxter Street,--to"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in, Antonio, says the tenant of the double flat,--the one with two rooms,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Antonio enters, cap in hand. In the corner by the dormer-window a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "has been fitted up in commemoration of the N... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, I say, holding a silver dime up before the oldest, a smart little chap of seven--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get change, he replies promptly. When he is told that it is his own, to buy toys with, his eyes open wide with wondering incredulity. By degrees he ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with a double armful of curly-headed dolls in red, yellow, and green Mother-Hubbards, doubtful how to dispose of them, provokes a shout of approval, which is presently quieted by the principal's bell. School is"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do we receive at Christmas? the teacher wants to know. The whole school responds with a shout,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolls and toys! To the question,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do we receive them at Christmas? the answer is not so ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Santa Lucia and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Children of the Heavenly King,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is this King?"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Vito, who is he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "McKinley!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hanged my stocking last time, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the front house indeed, he left a drum and a doll, but no message from him reached the rear house in the alley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe he couldn't find it,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; that is why. Of cake there is a double supply. It is a dozen years since"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fighting Mary, the wildest child in the Seventh Avenue school, taught them a lesson there which they have never forgotten. She was perfectly untamable, fighting ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That awful Savarese,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For those, she said, in her French patois,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and hobbled away. I found out, a few days later, when I took her picture weaving mats in her attic room, that she had scarcely food in the house that Christmas day and not the car fare to take ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for stone. In her youth she was lady's-maid to a general's wife, the recollection of which military career equally condones the cellar and prevents her holding any sort of communication with her common neighbors, who add to the offence of being foreigners the unpardonable one of... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--a concession, perhaps, to the commercial rather than the religious holiday: business comes then, if ever. A crowd of ragamuffins camp out at a window where Santa Claus and his wife stand in state, embodiment of the domestic ideal that has not yet gone out of fashion in these t... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Brasses."
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the world, that thou hast redeemed us as thou didst redeem our fathers, hast delivered us from bondage to liberty, and from servile dependence to redemption!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of this humbug when I get married. It is the straining of young America at the fetters of tradition. Ten minutes later, when, between double files of women holding candles, the couple pass to the canopy where the rabbi waits, she has already forgotten; and when the crunchin... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gosh! ain't it fine? is the grateful comment of one curly-headed youngster, bravely attacking his third plate of chicken-stew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fine as silk,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, was the mother's indulgent answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Garden,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of my cares, said Mr. Devins, looking after him with contracted brow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has spent two Christmas days of twenty-three out of jail. He is a burglar, or was. His daughter has brought him round. She is a seamstress. For three months, n... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is her class, said the pastor of Hope Chapel, as he stopped on the landing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are all kinds. We never could hope to reach them; Jennie can. They fetch her the papers given out in the Sunday-school, and read to her what is printed ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be welcome, piped a harsh voice with a singular note of cheerfulness in it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whose step is that with you, pastor? I don't know it. He is welcome in Jennie's house, whoever he be. Girls, make him to home."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to fill in. As the file of eagle-eyed youngsters passes down the long tables, there are swift movements of grimy hands, and shirt-waists bulge, ragged coats sag at the pockets. Hardly is the file seated when the plaint rises:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ain't go... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kol am va antom Salimoon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every year and you are safe, the Syrian guide renders it into English; and a non-professional interpreter amends it:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May you grow happier year by year."
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "says the guide;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All together croon the refrain. The host delivers himself of an epic about his love across the seas, with the most agonizing expression, and in a shockingly bad voice. He is the worst singer I ever heard; but his compani... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the Allen Street tenement. His mother had gone to the butcher's. Chajim, the father,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chajim is the Yiddish of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Herman, --was long at the shop. To Abe was committed the care of his two you... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bouwerie"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Air, air! gasped the old man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O God, water!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that I might be reached yet and saved from this awful death! he prayed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help, O God, help!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I prayed for water, and it came; I prayed for freedom, and was saved. The God of my fathers be praised!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little Angus, it ran,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there was"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huh Hoo--ochsjawai,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Njeawa,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They say it is luck, he mused,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're late,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; we've come far, and it's been a hard pull. 'Liza is tired. Give her a good feed, and I'll bed her down. How's mother?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sprier than she was, replied the girl, bending over the shaft to unbuckle the horse;"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who do you think has come home with me? he said, and he held up before them the veritable Santa Claus himself, done in plaster and all snow-covered. He had bought it at the corner toy-store with his lucky quarter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I met him on the road ... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and said the simple grace of a plain and ignorant, but reverent, man. He held it tight, as though he needed its support, when he came to the petition for"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merry Christmas!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he called,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor old 'Liza! he said, patting her neck and smoothing her gray coat,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fill up, old girl! and good night to you."
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor 'Liza!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Joe, she said,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jim saved her, father, said Jennie, patting the gray mare;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jim, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said the truckman, with sudden vehemence, turning to the old mare and putting his arm around her neck,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "World"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is not dead, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am going to get that man out. And he crept down the lane of fire, unmindful of the hidden dangers, seeing only the man who was perishing. The flames scorched him; they blocked his way; but he came through aliv... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold fast, Dennis! he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you fall I will catch you."
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think? he said slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I don't think. There ain't any time to. If I'd stopped to think, them five people would 'a' been burnt. No; I don't think of danger. If it is anything, it is that--up there--I am boss. The rest are not in it.... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They nag like a lot of old women, said Department Chief Bonner to me once;"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the direction where the enemy is expected to appear. The fire is the enemy; but he can fight that, once he reaches it, with something of a chance. The smoke kills without giving him a show to fight back. Long practice toughens him against it, until he learns the trick of"
}... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The man in charge of the hose fell into the cellar. I got him out; that was all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how? I persisted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I went down through the cellar,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, said Department Chief Bonner, when I asked him once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess it is the same way with everybody. You hear what you have to hear. There is a gong right over my bed at home, and I hear every stroke of it, but I don't hear the... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a cry of fire in the night appeals to the dullest imagination with a sense of sudden fear. There have been nights in this city when the cry swelled into such a clamor of terror and despair as to make the stoutest heart quake--when it seemed to those who had to do with putti... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thirty-three's"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is no use, he said, glancing up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't try. You can't do it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I couldn't let him, he said to me, months after, when he had come out of the hospital, a whole man again, and was back at w... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know, he said apologetically, in telling of it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Women are queer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "that record is added, nothing remains to be said. The firemen know how much of... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, papa?"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out, just a little while,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't go, she said;"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, if he was only a bottle, instead of a big, useless policeman, why, one might put up with him; which reflection opened the flood-gates of grief and set the little Chinee squalling:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yow! Yow! Yap!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, mamma! she cried, in wild excitement,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it will fit my dolly's jacket! cried Susie, dancing around and hugging it in glee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will, mamma! A real live baby! Now Tilde needn't brag of theirs. We will take it home, won't we, mamma?"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. 103"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Carmen! our baby!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luigi!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot! said a hard voice behind him. Carmen stood there with face of stone. She stamped her foot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shoot! she commanded, pointing, relentless, at the struggling man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coward, shoot!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother of God! mercy! she cried, thrusting her babe before the assassin's weapon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jesus Maria! Carmen, the child! He is my husband!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was mine once, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She pushed the baby aside."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coward, shoot!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conduct unbecoming an officer, read the charge,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twenty policemen, comprising the whole off platoon of the East One Hundred and Fourth Street squad, answered the charge as defendants. They had been caught grouped about a pot of chowder a... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care if I do,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Riis, he began stiffly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not going to judge you unheard; and, for that matter, it is none of my business. I have known you all this time as a sober, steady man; I believe you are a deacon in your church; and I never heard that yo... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What de divil good is dem goats anyhow? she said, panting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's no housekeeper in de United Shtates can watch de ash cans wid dem divil's imps around. They near killed an Eyetalian child the other day, and two of them got basted in d... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they after dem goats again? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sarah! Leho! come right here, an' don't you go in the street again. Excuse me, sor! but it's all because one of dem knocked down an old woman that used to give it a paper every day. She is the m... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many is the dime it has saved us."
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey, Jenny!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She ain't as bad as they lets on,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You allus treated me fair, Schultz, it said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Denny?"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you, said the wreck, wistfully--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That I will, said Schultz. He had often done it before, sometimes for three, sometimes for six months, and sometimes for ten days, according to how he and Denny and the justice felt about it. In the... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only a dead tramp,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Denny,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Denny, come. Your time is up. I am here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My God! he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was a bad penny,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the spare bedroom, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The spare bedroom,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The only one in the house?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H'm! p... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing and betrayed such feeling that his questioner soon made him admit that he was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From that to telling the whole story of the robbery was only a little way, easy to travel in such company as Jake was in then. He told how he had come... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rover,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rover, poor Rover,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with daily pride,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "when the aldermen issued an edict, against monkeys. Now he was"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said dolefully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it ain't, Jock! There's Tom and Foley gone off an' 'listed, and them only four years older nor me. What's four years?"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An' dad! wailed Jim, unheeding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hear him tell Mr. Murphy himself that he was a drummer-boy in the war, and he won't let me at them dagoes!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I seen 'em march to de camp with their guns and dr... |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jock, he said, stopping short in front of his friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know what I'll do. Jock, do you hear? I know what I'm going to do!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going anyhow! I'll run away, Jock! That's what I'll do! I'll get a whack at them dagoes yet!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jock, said the boy, considering his playmate approvingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll do, Jock, he said, when the dusk stole into the attic,"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll enlist him!"
}
] |
21583 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye imp, she shrieked, laying about her with a wet towel,"
}
] |
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