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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wages of the linen workers in Ireland are the lowest received in any mills in the United Kingdom." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General laborers, $10.00 a week." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "IF HANNA WINS, HIS VICTORY WILL BE THE DEATH KNELL OF CARSONISM." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God in His goodness, declared a woman advocate at a meeting held for Moore at Carrickfergus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is owing to Sir Edward Carson under Almighty God, stated D.M. Wilson, K.C., M.P., at a meeting at Whitehead," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Edward Carson's for me--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand on your own feet, Major Muir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heart and soul, I'll fight Home Rule--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What aboot Canada, Major Muir? The major did...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what we do with trash." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, you mean the big Sinn Feiner" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Often at five o'clock, I watch the girls coming home from the mills. At six o'clock they eat supper. At seven the boys and girls walk out together, two by two. Mrs. McCullough laughed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know, I think that's all I have against the Uls...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Report Chief Medical Inspector, Belfast, 1909." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad to see you, Mr C," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't he a fine fellow, James?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should say so." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Duke" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wanted to see me? I asked," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you break! he cried." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the exact number stolen from the Grand Duke," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They'll probably try to fire the house next." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "COPEY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FEENISH" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Britain is at War." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your King and Country Need You," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir to no man, and who gloried in the reputation given them by one inspecting officer as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you're looking for the Newfoundlanders," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll take you to Wellington Barracks, volunteered the Englishman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's where your lot is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Company, at the halt, facing left, form close column of platoons. Company B of the First Newfoundland Regiment swung into position and halted in the square just in front of their quarters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Company, Dismiss!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wonder who the new lot is? said he to a comrade lounging near." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cawn't place their bloomin' badge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "said the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blawsted colonials; Canydians, I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Poppa, he greeted the gray-haired one, who had now resumed his journey toward the dump." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What will you answer when your children say, 'Daddy, what part did you play in the great war?'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Art, he said to my conductor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're just the man we want. Don't you want to join us in a party to go up to London?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, answered Art;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thirty-two men. Just as I entered, I heard the bugle sound the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fall In," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men of the First Newfoundland Regiment, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A and B Companies leave here at eight this evening, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "C and D Companies an hour later. They march to Aldershot railway station, and entrain there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's your rifle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't got one, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sergeant, he snapped," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where shall I go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As far as I am concerned, he answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ordered by whom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the Adjutant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't had any orders about that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the Adjutant said so, it's all right," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go ahead then, said Captain March;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good-by, old chap, he said, then gasped in astonishment. The train was just beginning to move. It was well under wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "French's contemptible little army." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gallishaw, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lance-Corporal Gallishaw has embarked with the battalion, and is posted to B Company for pay. The ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eengaleesh paper, veera good; veera good, veera nice; fifty thousand Eengaleesh killed in the Dardanelle; veera good, veera nice." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's some place, but it isn't the front. We came to fight, not for sightseeing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This consisted of a one-pound tin of pressed corn beef--the much-hated and much-maligned" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--a bag of biscuits, and a small tin that held two tubes of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oxo," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ship of Troy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who have you on board?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Newfoundlanders." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Move up those boats," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beachy Bill, a battery that we were to become better acquainted with, was in excellent shape. Every few minutes a shell burst close to us. Shrapnel bullets and fragments of shell casing forced us to huddle under the baggage for protection. A little to the left, some Australians ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beachy Bill" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beachy Bill sent over a few shells in our direction. The gunners could not see us, but they wanted to warn us not to presume too much. As soon as the first shell landed near us, the officer in charge shouted nonchalantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take cover, ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Memory of Unknown Comrades." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The incomparable Twenty-ninth Division. When the first landing was made, this division, with the New Zealanders, penetrated to the top of Achi Baba, the hill that commanded the Narrows. For forty-eight hou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At four hundred yards, rapid fire, everybody was tingling with excitement. Still the Turks came on, magnificently determined, but it was too desperate a venture. The chances against them were too great, our artillery and machine gun fire too destructively accurate. Some few Turk...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nae meat, was the laconic way he expressed it. Like every Scotchman since the world began, he answered to the name of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mac." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's just aboot fower hundred yairds, he said," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dinna fire, lad, cautioned Mac." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have a wurrkin' pairty oot just in front. Ye would na hit anything if ye did. 'Tis only wastin' bullets to fire at night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand to, laddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing's the matter, said Mac." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every morning at daybreak ye stand to airms for an hour." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kitchener's Army." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You had better get to sleep as soon as you can, boys; you have a hard day before you, to-morrow. It was Mr. Nunns, the lieutenant in command of our platoon. Casting aside all caste prejudice, he was sleeping in the midst of his men, in the first dugout he had found empty. He cou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The London Terriers, they called themselves. Mostly they were young fellows from eighteen to twenty-two years old. They had landed only that morning and were in splendid condition, and very eager for the coming of evening when they were to go to the firing line. The ground they ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turkish Delight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Block House Well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Corporal, we're in a pretty tight place. We may have to sell our lives dearly. I want every man to stand by me. Will you stand by me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you say stand by you? I'll stand by this window and I'll bayonet the first damn Turk I see." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at Johnny Turrk. Let's bomb him to hell out of it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, my man, what is your name and number." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What in hell have I done now?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a man that would have been recommended for a Distinguished Conduct Medal if he'd answered that officer right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been seventeen years in the army, and I've been in every war that England fought in that time, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's one man on this Peninsula, continued Cooke," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before I go out, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll show you a good place where you can get a shot at Abdul Pasha." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just in front of those bushes, said Cooke," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "one that would not prove fatal, or a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blighty one." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My favorite brand too, my favorite brand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You should take soft ground like this, Art," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've gone so far now, said Art," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there anybody here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I said, with feeling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It looks to me, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I'll go ahead, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beefsteak! I gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sacred beefsteak! Where did you get it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Officers' mess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got salt and pepper, I said," }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Turn it upside down, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the excitement?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those fellow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in, Hebe, I said pleasantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't see you very often." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've caught you with the goods on, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me back that milk, or I'll report yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like to know, said one chap," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I enlisted, said a man with an accent reminiscent of the Placentia Bay," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought there'd be lots of fun, but with weather like this, and nothing fit to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a spy, he yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here's a bloody Turk." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Turk nothing, said a disgusted voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you know a man from your own company?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you think of the news from the Western front?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The enemy are on the run at the Western front. The British have taken four lines of German trenches for a distance of over fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand to arms for the Newfoundlanders," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Australians are advancing, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll go up as reinforcements if we're needed. Tell y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see that last rocket? said a man near me;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can put your equipments off, and turn in again, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is all the excitement?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, Art, I said. I might as well have spoken to a stone wall. I tried again. Putting my mouth to his ear, I shouted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand to, Art. Stand to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll stand three if you like, but don't distu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was the excitement?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Charlie Renouf, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heavens, said Art," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am sick," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two men from you, Corporal Gallishaw, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One here, right away, said Art," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I inherited them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you want to go on bomb throwing detail this afternoon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure, he answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fine, I said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We didn't expect to make the attack for another week, said the Australian;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm about fed up on this waiting around the trenches. He fingered one of the little cricket-ball bombs care...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go over and ask Mr. Nunns, said Art to me, while we were cleaning our rifles," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'd better wait till this afternoon, before going, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I want you to take twenty men and carry up ten boxe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see, one of them was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's this way, explained the other." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The cigarette makers send their snipers out sometime at night. Instead of going back that night they stay out for a we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you Newfoundlanders, Corporal?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've made it pretty warm for you since you've been here, he added, with a smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your men are most e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who was that, that just spoke to us, Sergeant?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it possible that you don't know 'im. 'E's General Sir Ian Hamilton, General Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Force, 'e is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Sir Ian Hamilton, I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Doesn't he look like the sort of man it would be wise to confide in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he does, said Art." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As we go marching through Germany. These had all given place to songs that voiced to some extent the longing for home that possessed these voluntary exiles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to go back to Michigan was a favorite. Perhaps even more so was" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "they said. Everybody was laughing and shouting delightedly. Down in the bay, the gray ships looked almost as small as launches in the mist formed by the smoke of the guns. The Newfoundlanders might have been a crowd rooting at a baseball game. Every few minutes, when the smoke i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most of the men in talking to each other, especially to their sick comrades, spoke hopefully of the outcome; but those I talked with alone all had the same thought: only by a miracle could they escape alive; that miracle was a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rum days....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unknown Comrades." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Begob, said one of the Dublins, beside me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glory be to God, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It reminds me, I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I added heartily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was there now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It makes me think, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sergeant Golder, Fifth Norfolk Regiment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who goes there? he shouted. I did some remarkably quick thinking then. I knew that the bullet through my cap had not come from the sniper, and that some one of our men had seen my overcoat and mistaken me for a Turk. I knew the sniper was in the tree, and the D Company's man's c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Corporal, he said as he came up beside me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I almost shot you a few minutes ago. I should have when the other fellow challenged you if you hadn't said 'Newfoundland.' I fired at you once. I saw you go out one way, and when y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand to. After" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand to, I crawled under a rubber sheet and snatched a few hours' sleep before breakfast. Just after breakfast, a man from A Company came through the trench, munching some fancy biscuits and carrying in his hand a can o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Gal, he yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've stopped a cushy one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How did it happen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Picking up rubbish on top of the parapet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Corporal Gallishaw, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But in the army one cannot stop to think of such things long; orders have to be obeyed. Since coming into the trench we had constructed a dump, but the former occupants of the trench had thrown their refuse ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you try to bandage it here, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stretcher bearers at the double, stretcher bearers at the double! then added as an after-thought," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell Art Pratt the Corporal's struck." }, { ...