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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brute! Beast! I only wish--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were gone, he said blankly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He told you to come away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I stopped to help you, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not like to have you left when you were so bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you didn't, he cried, with a vicious snarl."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You stopped to play the miserable, contemptible, cowardly spy. It's just like you, Dale. You always were a beast!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you call me a beast, I'll knock your head off!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would take a better man than you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not it, though you are bigger and stronger, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, and I'll show you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up, he groaned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't stir, I said, as I realised how thoroughly the doctor had read him, and I understood now why Mr Frewen was so indifferent instead of being sympathetic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, there's nothing the matter with you at all. You can move as well as I can. Get up, sneak!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! he groaned,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, I said again,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't, I can't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you coward, you coward!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it's you who are the coward, shamming being injured. Will you get up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, he snarled, changing his manner again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not armed now, I cried, snatching the revolver I carried from my belt, and laying it on Mr Preddle's chest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get up, you miserable, cowardly, treacherous, shamming impostor! I'll give you some physic which will do you more good than the doctor's."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor fellow, how weak he is!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I don't know, I stammered as I put my hand to my ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I think so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cowardly, treacherous hound!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--oh don't!--help!--I was only defending myself from Dale. I'm weak and hurt, and--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A cowardly, malingering liar! cried Mr Frewen, hotly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He tried to make me believe he was very bad, groaning and wincing, and thinking he had deceived me, but I saw through him all the time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I am bad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He isn't, I said, with my anger against him mastering a sensation of sickness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was shamming; I found him out, and we quarrelled and fought, and as soon as he was beaten he caught up the pistol and fired at me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all a lie! shouted Walters, fiercely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was so weak and ill that I--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jumped up well as I was, and called Mr Frewen a brute and a beast as soon as he was out of hearing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the pistol cocked itself, jumped up into his hand, and then went off and wounded Dale. Is it much, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, only his ear cut, fortunately, said Mr Frewen, holding a handkerchief to my head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An inch more and our amiable, treacherous young friend would have had to be tried for murder. Who's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, growled Neb Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want help, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. Go and tell the captain there's nothing the matter, and Miss Denning that there's no cause for alarm. Lock up the wild beast, Brymer! I thought he was a little weak and wanted feeding up. Leave him to me, and I'll feed him down."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel sick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pretty well,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a light, and a glass to see your face?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh? No, I cried, as I recalled all that had taken place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does it look very bad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not half so bad as it will to-morrow, said Mr Frewen, coolly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had a tidy fight then, you two?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes; don't talk about it, please, sir. He made me feel so wild after I found out that he was only shamming."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! Well, don't let Miss Denning see you. If you had been knocked about like this in a struggle with those scoundrels under the hatch you would have won her sympathy; but a lad who goes and indulges in fisticuffs till his face looks like a muffin which has tumbled into the slop-basin, can't show himself in ladies' society till he has grown well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I say, Mr Frewen!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a fact,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But can't you put some stuff on it to make it look better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, nothing, he said coolly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only know of one thing that will help you out of your difficulty,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must wait till we have another fight with the men forward, and then if you get knocked about, all those bruises will go to the same account."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's getting warm, doctor, he said as we came up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is to be done? I grudge wasting cartridges."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is at the wheel?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blane, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do. Look here, Hampton, the captain saw to the receiving of the powder and cartridges while I was busy over the other portions of the cargo, and he is too weak to be questioned. You joined the mutiny for a time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never, sir, for no time,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you were with the men, and in their confidence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit on it, sir, arksing your pardon. Frenchy never trusted me a mite; only got all the work out of me that he could."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, well, we will not argue little points, said Mr Brymer, impatiently, as the chopping and firing went on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You saw a great deal of what was going on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, heaps; I kep' my eyes open."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, tell me this--what about the powder and weapons? What do you know about them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell you, sir, said Bob;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How, man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answering them shots, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would, but my cartridges are nearly all gone. How did you get these?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Outer the hold, sir, where they stowed 'em close alongside o' the blasting-powder. There's plenty more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you get them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, sir. You see, before the mutiny began, Jarette set some one, as I heard afterward, to smuggle all the cartridges and weapons he could out of the cabins and from the captain's locker."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we found out that had been done. Who did they send?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you know, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not Mr Walters?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you was to spend all the rest o' your life, sir, making shots at it, you wouldn't never get nigher than that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The young scoundrel! Then you know where the cartridges are?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course I do, sir: under the battened down hatches yonder. Frenchy put 'em there himself, and wouldn't let no one go nigh 'em, 'cause the fellows were always smoking. I got down to 'em at night when the storm was coming, as you know, and when you want more, there they are,--yer pistols and guns too."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that puts quite a different complexion upon our position, Mr Denning. We can fire as much as we like, cried the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But one word more, Hampton. What about the mutineers? Have they a very large supply of ammunition?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, that I can't say. I know Jarette always kep' his pockets jam-full, but I don't know nothing about the others."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was the result of some one aiming,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If they don't do any more damage than that it won't matter,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Brymer, whispered Mr Frewen, speaking now after carefully watching the dimly-seen hatch for some minutes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For want of ammunition?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; for want of air. That ventilator will not carry off the foul gas from the firing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the holes they are making will, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it were not so dark you would see that the smoke is curling out from several little holes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flit? cried Mr Preddle, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but not hurt, replied Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bullet struck my collar, and it was like something giving me a violent jerk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Change positions every one, said Mr Brymer in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hampton, the lanterns. Let them both down, and put them in the galley."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite time that was done,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look sharp, Hampton; they can see you, man! cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Throw something over the lights."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Done it, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter? cried Mr Brymer, loudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and see, Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another prisoner?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; can't he; 'cause he's fastened hisself in, replied Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, matey, what are you doing here? I thought you was a ghost."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it's the cook!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cooky it is, sir, said Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here y'are, mate; we've brought you a light."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's to be done? said Mr Preddle, mildly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hadn't you better speak to them, Mr Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I feel as if I can only speak by deputy, he replied, and he raised his pistol,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll speak to them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well; but get well out of reach. They will not be so merciful as we are."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You surrender then, eh? he shouted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look sharp and knock off these boards."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop that! shouted Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, my men, if you hand out your weapons through the top of the hatch, and promise not to attempt to escape, food and water shall be passed down, and you shall receive fair treatment till we get into port."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear, my lads? cried Jarette, loudly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And when we get in port they'll hand us over as prisoners. What do you--there, I'll say it for you, he continued hastily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, no! And now listen to me, all you who can hear. You can't sail into port without us, and you are only proposing a truce because you are growing frightened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Indeed!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, indeed, doctor. I know your voice. Now you take my advice--you and those two passengers. Get back to your cabins, and perhaps I'll forgive you. We can come on deck now whenever we like, and we're masters here. If you don't do as I say, look out, for I warn you I can cover all of you with my pistol, and if I couldn't I'd sink the ship before you should hold her again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you refuse to surrender? cried Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harkye, my lads, below there; don't let this madman lead you on to your ruin. Will you surrender?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Silence below there! shouted Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll give him his answer. There!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, said Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we could only master that one man, said Mr Frewen in the little council of war which followed,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't you better order the hose to be laid on, Mr Brymer, sir, said Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be punishing the weak with the guilty and strong, my lad, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am loth to proceed to extremities."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Werry well then, sir, smoke 'em out as you would rats. I dessay the doctor has got some brimstone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I have, Hampton, said Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's a true word, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would not like to kill them all in cold blood, my man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, that's a butchery sort o' way; but I'm ready to give 'em a wopses' nest squib to bring 'em to their senses."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out of their senses, man! cried Mr Frewen, impatiently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It means death, I tell you--wholesale murder. The men, I repeat, are not rats."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, they're behaving like 'em, and there's no gammon about it now. They're desprit; Jarette's worked 'em up; and they've got the judge to face if we take 'em into port. Strikes me it's our lives or theirn; but you knows best. I was thinking about the young lady."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I dursen't, sir, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That Jarette would swear I was a traitor as soon as he heard my voice, and shoot me same as he did poor Phipps."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! the steward?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, dead, on the night they rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You rose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, I didn't; I'm only a cook, and not a fighting man. One does lots of things when a pistol's held to your head as you wouldn't do other times."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring the biscuit and water, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't know Jarette, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go with you and help you,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That isn't all, is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurt? Yes, of course I am,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid it will be some time before they get any more refreshments,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Brymer can do as he likes, of course, Mr Dale, but I should just trust them two chaps as far as I could see 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll be all right while we have the upper hand, Bob, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it, sir. You're as right as you can get. I'm friendly with 'em, of course; but I've got my eyes open, and they don't go nigh that hatch while I'm on deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think we can trust the cook, Bob?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suet, sir. That's 'bout what he's made on. Sort of soft fat man. There's no harm in him, only softness. Think of a fellow being so scared that he goes and shuts hisself up and drinks hisself into a state o' muddle so as not to know what's going on. Why, if one's got to be drowned, one wants to make a bit of a fight for it. Never say die, my lad. Life in a mussel, you know. Oh, there's no harm in old bile-the-pot, only I shouldn't like to depend on him in a row, though he could do us a lot o' good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lot of ways, my lad. Cook's got a good many advantages, you see. Red-hot pokers is one; pots and kettles o' boiling water's another, without counting the long sharp knives; but he won't do nothing, and I must. Don't walk too near the wild beasts' cage, my lad, I'm going aft."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mr Dale, sir, and have taken him a beautiful basin of broth. Let me give you one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not now, I said, though I felt tempted to say yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did you take Mr Walters his provisions?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did, sir, with Mr Brymer looking on all the time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does he seem very bad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, he pulled a long face, but I don't think there's much the matter with him. He can eat readily enough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, cook, I half whispered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, not much, I was busy here. The crew ate a deal."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you knew about Mr Walters being shut up in the cable-tier?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can't hear you, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, sir, he whispered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he's knowing enough!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean that, Mr Dale, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean there's something uncanny about him, as the Scotch people say, and he can tell what you are thinking about without your saying it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nonsense!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It arn't nonsense, sir, and there's more about him than you think for. Why, he can do anything with the men. They're not only afraid of him, but they're obliged to do what he wants, and if I was Mr Brymer, sir, I shouldn't rest till he was put in a boat and sent off to shift for himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think he's dangerous then?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, that he is, sir; and if he isn't hatching out something row to surprise you all, I don't know mutton from beef."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, well, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dare say we shall be ready for him if he does try to play any pranks. But you didn't tell me about Mr Walters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't seem to like to talk about him, sir, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He never forgets anything, and never forgives anybody. I wouldn't say a word against him for worlds."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't ask you to, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only asked you why Mr Walters was shut up in the cable-tier?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette don't like him, sir. He found him very useful for stealing pistols and cartridges, and fastening people in the cabins, but once he got all he wanted, though he made a fuss with him and encouraged him to strut about, and called him his lieutenant, he used to be always looking at him ugly-like, and I got to think that before long there would be a row."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And there was?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cowardly brute, to torture any one like that!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Getting ready for a fresh attack, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll have a talk to the captain as to what is to be done."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think he can bear it, Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, if we do not stay too long. It will rouse him up and do him good mentally, to feel that he has some interest in the management of the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then come along, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But where is Mr Preddle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone to look after his fish,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and fetch him, Dale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall hang back till you come to the door, and signal to me that Miss Denning has gone. She mustn't see me like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes--yes, of course, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They will not make a rush and get out while we are away, will they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are well watched, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! It would be very dreadful if they did, Dale. Have they been fed this morning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you talk as if they were wild beasts in a cage, Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So they are, he cried,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone to her own cabin, Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dale is afraid of Miss Denning seeing his wounds, said Mr Frewen, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He does not think they look the proper kind to be proud of."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish you wouldn't joke me about my bad face, Mr Frewen,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, sir, said Mr Brymer, firmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said the captain, in a voice hardly above a whisper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must act now, and firmly, before there is loss of life on our side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That means then, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My practice is always to save life if I can, Mr Denning, said the doctor, sadly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you not too hard and revengeful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neither, sir, replied Mr Denning, sternly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were alone I would say nothing, but I have my sister to protect, and I say that at any cost these ruffians must not leave that place alive."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Mr Denning is quite right, said Mr Preddle, in his highly-pitched voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate all this, and I am not a fighting man; but I know that I shall fire on the first wretch who tries to break out without a qualm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hear, Mr Frewen, said the mate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am forced by circumstances to take very strong measures."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That may mean the death of several of those misguided men?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fear so, sir. But Captain Berriman agrees with me that it is our duty, unless we like to well provision a boat and leave the ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that would be a terrible alternative,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Terrible, sir; and a cowardly and unfaithful one to the owners of the vessel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But can we not keep the men down until you are able to run into some port?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we have run into the region of calms. No, sir, even if we had favourable winds we are horribly short-handed, and I should not dare to make much sail for fear of a change, and being unable to reduce it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that is not the point, doctor, said the captain, in a feeble voice;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray understand, gentlemen, that I do not doubt your courage,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor I, gentlemen, cried Mr Brymer, warmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have to a man--and boy, he added hastily as he glanced at me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid so, replied Mr Frewen, gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even Mr Denning would shrink from the stern necessity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you will agree with Captain Berriman and me that some very stern measures must be taken?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do, certainly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you propose doing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is what we are here to decide, and that quickly, for one or two of us must always be on deck. Can you suggest anything, either of you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Time is flying, gentlemen, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must act, and the captain and I ask for your help to share this terrible responsibility; for whatever we do we shall have to answer for to the laws of our country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Frewen, solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amen,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, he said; and then he stopped while every one turned to him, and I thought how handsome, manly, and yet how stern he looked as he stood gazing straight before him and through the cabin-window at the glittering sea, while I could hardly hear a breath. Then he went on--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heaven knows, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bear with me a few moments, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, sir, and hear me out, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems to me that there can be no doubt of one thing: if we can shoot down--wounded, I hope--this man Jarette, we might easily master his followers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no doubt of that whatever,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly, and that shall be done if all other methods fail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What other methods, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You gentlemen may have some plans, for my part I have but one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have no plans, they all said eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you have one?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have one--a wild and desperate one, whose aim is to separate Jarette from his followers, living, and to make him prisoner. It may fail, for it is, as I say, a wild and desperate plan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Heaven's name then, doctor, what is it? said the captain, feebly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speak out, sir; you know how bad I am, and that this business is killing me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I will speak out, captain, said Mr Frewen, warmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did mean to ask you all to wait, and have confidence in me sufficient to let me have forty-eight hours for my trial without divulging what I intended to do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The times are too desperate, Mr Frewen, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't ask that of us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I say I will speak, but I ask you not to look upon the attempt as childish or absurd until it has been tried."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to do rather a risky thing, an act which may imperil men's lives; but I shall be as guarded as possible."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before long, continued Mr Frewen, in a low, firm voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, of course not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you grasp of course what I propose doing. I shall drug that food with one of the powerful extracts which I have in my medicine-chest. It will be passed down to the men, who will be almost voracious, and then we shall have to wait until it has taken effect, open the hatch, secure Jarette, and separate the others into, say, three parties--one in the cable-tier, the other in the forecastle, the last in the hold or one of the cabins. The rest, I think, will be easy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think my plan too wild?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, said Mr Denning, quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless you, doctor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that plan will do, said Captain Berriman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I feel assured."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What could it have been?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, I said, pointing upwards,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was afraid that some one had been listening to what I had planned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So was I, sir, I said,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see, gentlemen, said Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought dissolved in water,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two objections to that, said Mr Denning;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll answer for it that Jarette would not touch water, cried Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beg pardon, sir, said Bob Hampton's voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? cried Mr Brymer, in alarm,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, not they. One of 'em's got up into the hatchway as spokesman, and he's been giving us a bit of his mind."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does he say?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Says as he wants to know whether you mean to starve 'em out; as they've on'y had some water and biscuit for twenty-four hours, and that if you don't send 'em some grub, they'll set fire to the ship, for they'd sooner be roasted than starved."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Hampton; go back and tell them that we will see what can be done, but that if they fire another shot they shall not have a biscuit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, doctor, could anything be better?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; they are playing into our hands; but there is the difficulty still. How can we give it to them? It must be something of which all will partake. Why not have some coffee made for them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Half of them wouldn't touch it, said Captain Berriman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd suggest grog, but they have spirits no doubt, and they want food."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't a tin of the soup do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The very thing! he cried eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have some tins of soup amongst the Australian meat, captain?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, plenty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do then, only it must be done with a certain amount of cunning, or they may have suspicions. Depend upon it, if I am seen in it they will not take the stuff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what is to be done?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I propose, replied Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which is true enough,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly, continued Mr Brymer;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can give me the stuff--laudanum, or whatever it is--to mix with the contents of one tin, which Dale can take to the cook, and tell him to warm up and reduce with hot water, while he reserves the other for our table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But why give him two?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I want to avert suspicion in every way. The cook has been mixed up with the men, and he shut himself up as you know in dread of our punishing him, perhaps shooting him down. He may suspect something, and manage to warn the men. If two tins are sent, one for the men and one for our own table, everything will look simple and ordinary."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And suppose he gives us the drugged one by mistake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can guard against that by sending a large one and a small one. No-- by sending two different kinds."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is only one kind,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like the plan, said the doctor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may end in a mistake, and we don't want to be hoist with our own petard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hang it, no! cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right then, we will not eat the soup."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But why shouldn't I take my drug--it will only be a small portion of a white powder--and drop it into the soup when it is ready?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because there would certainly be some hitch in the proceedings to hinder you getting it in. Besides, we don't want the cook to be in the secret."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well then, said the doctor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose that must be the plan. I'll go and get the drug ready at once, and bring it here. But one minute; how many men are there in the forecastle?--because I must reckon accordingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say sixteen. You must give them a pretty good dose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but not strong enough to be risky,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said, looking with no little interest at the powder which he had turned out of the tiny scales he had used."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cook is sure to stir it well too. But, Mr Frewen, will that little pinch or two of stuff be enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plenty, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is as far as I dare go, for it is most potent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it will send them off to sleep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Into a sleep so deep that it would be impossible to awaken them for some hours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ugh! I ejaculated, as I took the little packet and thrust it into my pocket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope, if ever you give me any physic, you'll be careful not to give me any out of the wrong bottle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take care, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind you warn Mr Brymer to be very careful too."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are two kinds, with blue label and yellow label. You see I shall put the stuff in the yellow labelled tin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I see,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, we must chance that, he whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Frewen said it was wonderfully strong,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we must hope so. Take the tins. You will not make any mistake?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I'll take care, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The yellow one for the men, the blue for us; but you don't catch me touching it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor me, Dale, he said, with a nod."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And look here, I shan't open this, but here's a big tin of kangaroo-tail; give him that too for warming up for our dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, I said, trying to speak merrily, but it was all forced, for I felt exceedingly nervous."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was asking you just now what was for dinner. Here you are--kangaroo-tail for our dinner, and that soup in the blue tin; and you're to put plenty of water to this other one, and make a half-bucket-full of soup for the men in the forecastle. How soon will it be ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Five minutes. I've plenty of boiling water. Who opened them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We did, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are all right, but some of the tins are going bad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I've had some I was glad to pitch overboard, sir, and if I had my way I'd make the folks as sells such rubbish for poor sailors eat it themselves."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And serve 'em right. You understand you're to keep this one for us, and get ready the yellow tin?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Mr Dale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hulloa, cookie, what's for dinner? said the man who had just been relieved from taking his trick at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!--didn't know you were here, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chump end of a hurdy-gurdy and organ sauce, messmate,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I'll stand out of this business altogether now, Dale, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a few minutes and then take one of the men, say Dumlow, and serve out the stuff to them, passing down a fresh supply of biscuits as well. What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I don't quite like doing it, Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, I'll go, I said firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like it, but I know it is right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on then, my lad, and carry it through for all our sakes. Be careful that the man with you does not touch it."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, you sirs. Are there to be any rations served out, or are we to set fire to the ship?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't you wait a few minutes?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Minutes, you whipper-snapper! he snarled;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you're not civil I'll tell the cook to keep the soup back for an hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soup? What soup?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soup the cook's getting ready; Dumlow, go and get the biscuit-bag."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better let me do it, sir, growled Bob Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I don't think they will, I said quietly, as I looked aft to see that my friends were, like the men hard by, watching me, and Barney Blane right aft at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, below there,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, you, I'm going to serve out biscuits and soup. I shall hand the tins down through the hole in the hatch. Fair play. No pistols now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's have the soup, and don't chatter, boy,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here we are!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lot o' preserved vegetables and herbs and all in it, sir, he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I don't stir they'll go to the bottom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, keep stirring!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Taste that, one of you, and see if it's all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, that's all right! Mister Jarette. Plenty o' salt, pepper, and dried herbs in it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jolly hot, but--suss!--good--capital!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, look sharp, skipper, make haste! Here, I'm first,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you, cookie, _bon chef_, cried Jarette;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll promote you as soon as I come to my rights. Ladle away."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be good boys, then, and I'll make you another lot to-morrow. Why, Mr Dale, sir, he said, turning to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it? I said, rather faintly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose it is very hot."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've taken it to the last drop, I panted, and then to the doctor--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Mr Frewen, I feel as if I had been committing a dozen murders. I wish I had not said a word about the soup."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How soon will it be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot tell you. I never administered it like this before, only in small doses as an opiate in cases of intense suffering. It may be soon, it may be an hour or two. If they have, as we suppose, an ample supply of spirits and tobacco below, it is possible that they may retard the action."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Mr Brymer,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have begun at the spirits,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better come and join us, Brymer, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You want food: and we can tell by the cessation of the noise they are making when the time for action has come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I can't eat, man, at a time like this!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must, to keep up your strength. Will Miss Denning join us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; let her stay in her cabin. She would only be in our way. I will take her in some dinner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better keep up appearances, so that the men may not notice anything. Mr Preddle, help the soup."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there is no risk, said the mate quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But here, make the plates and spoons look as if they had been used, and then throw all the soup out of the stern-window."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will it send the fishes to sleep, Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bad for them if it does, he said, with an attempt at looking merry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For their enemies are safe to swallow them while they are napping."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With both eyes open,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Dale, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; I will try,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Capital, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it is good,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What of--the gang singing? They're passing the bottle round pretty freely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking how tantalising it must be to hear this dinner going on, and smell it, and not get some."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we'll call the men to finish it when we've done. Poor fellows! they work hard for us, and we will not stand on ceremony now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I meant Walters, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! The treacherous young hound! Why, you don't mean you want to take him some?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I do, sir, I said quickly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like him, or defend him, but I'd give him a plate of this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he said,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've brought you some dinner, I said, but he paid no attention, and I repeated the words, but still he did not move."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, very well, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you like to be sulky, be so. I'll take it back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Set it down,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, all right, I said, setting the plate and biscuit down on the locker, though feeling all the time as if I should like to take it back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Laugh away; you don't look so very beautiful, Mr Pirate Lieutenant."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, was he very grateful?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your prescription seems to agree with them, Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; but wait a wee, as the Scotch folk say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, up by the forecastle, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put your pistols in your pockets, and we'll keep watch and listen to the effects of the drug while the men have their meal. Dale, my lad, take Blane at the wheel a portion, while I send the others to have theirs."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's your sort, sir; I was getting hungry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you eat and steer too, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can I eat and steer too? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You just set that theer on the binnacle, sir, and come back in ten minutes and see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will, Barney, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'll say you're a real gentleman, Mr Dale, sir, that I will, and drink your health."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall, Barney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I say, sir, ain't they pretty lively down in the forksle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, very."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did you serve out? Were it rum?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Barney, soup, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, they won't. It's unlimited grog, for they've got plenty down below; but, as you say, wait a bit. They will have done by-and-by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "In with you, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Mr Dale, sir; they've been having their snack along with the cook in the galley, and got it done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The more for you then,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter, Dale? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't look like that, my lad. Not well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not well? I said, or rather it was as if somebody a long way off said so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I am. Quite well, thank you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, don't go to sleep, boy."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great heavens! what does this mean?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drink this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over-excitement, isn't it, and the heat of the sun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps, but I am beginning to be afraid. Yes, that's light, my lad, sit down here in the shade. Take off your cap."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you fetch me a cane seat off the poop?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my lad, how are you?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like it, Frewen, said somebody just then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you say? You don't think it possible that--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my lad, he said,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doctor--my sister--come directly--she's dying!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must send another man. He is hanging fast asleep over the wheel."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all going to be right now,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some one has been playing larks with the grub, sir. I can't go to the wheel, for I can't--can't--can't--can't--Here, hold up Neb, lad; don't lurch about like that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm a-going down, matey, I'm a-going down,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You scoundrels, you've been at the rum! cried Mr Brymer, and he drew his pistol, but only gave a stagger, and caught about in the air to try and save himself from falling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help--Frewen--something--give me something,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Treachery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew it!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dog, you drugged that dish you sent in to dinner!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir--'pon my word, sir--I swear, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You treacherous hound, you've poisoned us!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I swear I haven't, Mr Brymer, sir. Don't, sir--that pistol, sir-- pray, sir--indeed, indeed, I haven't!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I swear, if it was the last word I had to titter, I've done nothing! I never drugged nobody's food!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, matey, said the sailor I had seen talking to the steersman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You? cried the cook."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've poisoned them!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not I, my lad, said the man, laughing; and every word he uttered rang in my ears as if it was being shouted by some tremendous voice, for my senses were at that moment abnormally clear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I, my lad. I was up yonder, when I saw Brymer and the rest of 'em get together to have what old Frenchy calls a parley, and they hadn't been there long, leaving me wondering what game was up, and what they were going to do about the lads down below, when I see the sky-light opened a bit. So of course I crep' along the deck to hear what they'd got to say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And did you hear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every word, mate. They were going to get the doctor to find the stuff to send all the lads to sleep, and then they were going to open the hatch and shove Jarette by himself, and the others some in the cable-tier and some in the hold."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You couldn't; I was here all the time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, was you? Didn't go round to the back to fetch taters, did you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course. I forgot."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, that's right, continued the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I warn't satisfied then, for I says to myself, `Them poor beggars down below won't get the dose now, but I should like t'others to have a taste;' and to make sure as they did, I takes the tin as you'd got the lumps o' meat in, pours out all the pieces and fills it up from the tin they'd doctored, and filled it up again with the juice I'd poured out; now I says to myself, whichever lot they have'll give 'em what they meant for some one else-- and so it did. My word, they mixed it pretty strong."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, the tins were wet and sticky!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course they was, mate; I had to be in such a hurry for fear of your coming back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I couldn't make out about that pan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't time to wash it, messmate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I gave the lads down below the soup the cabin was to have had?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And them in the cabin the soup and kangaroo they'd physicked?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so, matey, and their games are over again. You'll jyne us, won't you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I? Join you? faltered the cook, looking across at me;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the lads out again. It's their turn now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall wake up from this dream directly,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It all comes of sleeping in a cabin in these hot latitudes with the window closed. Mr Frewen ought to know better, I thought,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What makes men snore so?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how I wish he would wake up and open the window!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all due to having such a headache, I thought,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what is it?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "D'yer hear, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What did yer say, Neb?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mussy me, what a head I've got! muttered the voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did the gents give us some rum?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must ha' done, but I don't recklect. Why, it must ha' been a whole lot."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Neb--Barney, open something, and let's have some fresh air. My, how hot!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, whatcher talking about? Who is it, and what do you want?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, open the window, Bob, and let's have some fresh air."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'yer say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open the window, Bob; I'm half-stifled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So'm I, my lad. Here, what's the matter? What are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I arn't in the cabin, my lad, and you arn't in the cabin, for this arn't in it, and--Here, I say, what's up?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, I said peevishly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blest if I--Look here, my lad--There arn't anything to open anywheres, and my head won't go. Would you mind telling me where the sky-light is, for I s'pose I had too much grog last night like a fool, and I arn't werry clear in the head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, I can't tell, Bob. It's all a puzzle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And it's so plaguey dark, my lad. Wait a bit and I'll feel round with my fingers, for eyes aren't no good here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I said, for there was a good deal of rustling,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chesties and casks, my lad, and we're a-lying on 'em--leastwise I am. What are we two a-lying on chesties and casks for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, Bob. But who's that snoring so?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody was snoring just now, but it stopped when you spoke."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I s'pose it must ha' been me, my lad. I have heard say as I could play a pretty good toon on my nose when I was very fast asleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. There it goes again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there's no gammon 'bout that, my lad. That there's Neb Dumlow. If ever you're anywheres and hears a sound like a vessel blowing off her steam under water, all snort and bubble, you may take your oath it's Neb Dumlow. Here, I'll stop that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait a moment, Bob, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to know first where we are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So do I, my lad, but it seems to me, as my old mother used to say, that want'll be your master. I dunno, my lad; arn't dead and buried, are we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't talk nonsense, I said peevishly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here,--were you on the middle watch last night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dunno, my lad,--were you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't recollect, Bob. But do try. We must be somewhere in the dark, and it's that which puzzles us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, there's no gammon about that, my lad; we're somewheres in the dark, and it's 'bout the solidest, thickest darkness I ever found myself in. Here, I'll wake up old Neb. He's very ugly and precious stoopid, but he'll tell us where we are in a jiffy. Here! Hi! Avast there! Neb!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my lad, rouse up a bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our watch, old man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; not yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bless yer. Good-night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; rouse up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, all right, messmate. That there's flesh and blood you've got hold on, not suit. Don't skin me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then wake up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm woke up. What is it? Who's dowsed the lantern?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I d'know. Here's Mr Dale wants you to tell him where we are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; I said so, didn't I, stoopid?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Course you did, matey, but what's he doing here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what he wants you to tell him, only he wants to know first where here is."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's a awful thick-headed chap, sir, but I think he'll hit it off for us directly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Messmate!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has some one been having a lark with us?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I dunno, and I don't know anything, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You arn't wanted to ask questions, but to answer what Mr Dale wants to know. Now, then, what d'yer make of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nowt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, where are we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dunno."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What!--can't yer tell?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't find bottom, my lad; only seem to arrive at one thing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it's this here; if it was me and you and old Barney--where is old Barney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, messmate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come then, I might be right, on'y you see we've got Mr Dale with us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, what are you fogging about? Why don't you say what yer mean, my lad? Now then, out with it. Where are we?--'cause Mr Dale wants to know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, as he's here, we can't be here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What d'yer mean, stoopid?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, we can't be where I thought we was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And wheers that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, my lad, it looks like this here 'cording to what I feels. But stop a moment, let's ask Barney a question. Barney, old lad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How's yer head?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just as if it was a beehive, and all the bees swarming."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's it. Then we are here, and all I've got to say for myself is, as I wonder I could ha' been such a fool, and I'm sorry as Mr Dale don't know better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then where are we, Dumlow? I said hastily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you ought to, sir; you a orficer and brought up proper. I wonder at you a-leading men into trouble, and there'll be an awful row when old Brymer finds us out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's got it, sir, said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's what I thought, and it's a rum 'un."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, where are we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, sir, said Dumlow;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hist!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in! growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's the cook brought your shaving-water, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Answer them, whoever it is, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you answer them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, sir--shout?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no; tap again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there arn't nothin' to knock on, sir. It's no good to hit the top, or the floor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But there must be a partition somewhere,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dessay there is, sir; but I can't tell where it is."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are we not somewhere near the forecastle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dessay we are, sir; but my head's some'at like a lump o' solid wood. What did you bring us down here for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I! Bring you down! Nonsense, man. I did not bring you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then how did we come, sir? Do you know, Neb?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I only knows here we are, and my head's a rum 'un."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there must be some reason for us being here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, said Bob, coolly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what is it, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, don't ask me, sir; I arn't no scholard. I'm all muzzly like. Seems to me that we've been to one o' they casks,--and all the time it don't. No; we arn't had no drink. We shouldn't with all that there trouble a-hanging over us."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Bob, I said eagerly, for he had touched a chord which set me thinking--I mean trying to think;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, sir; we was in a lot o' trouble about something, but blest if I know what it was."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well; try, man, I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think about trouble. What trouble was it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I dunno, he cried, after a pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're aboard the Burgh Castle still, arn't we?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, I began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, of course we are, and we must be down in the hold. It's coming now, I think. Why did we come down here? Surely one of you must know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It arn't likely, sir, if you don't,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what were we in trouble about?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a rum 'un, said Bob Hampton at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I dunno. It's a rum 'un."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But cannot either of you think at all? I cried in agony."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems so horrible to be here like this in black darkness, and not know how or why."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I've got it now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All gone mad wi' being so much out in the sun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may be mad, Neb, I arn't, and I don't mean to. I'll take my trick at the wheel and box the compass with any on yer. Wheel--wheel, he added, thoughtfully--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I was a-steering when you comes, Mr Dale, sir, and brings me a plate o' wittles, and you says, says you--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you didn't, sir, beggin' your parding; you says something about could I steer and eat too, and I says--no, you says--no, it was I says; well, it was one or t'other of us, I can't quite 'member which says, `put it on the binnacle,'--and it was put there, and I ate it, and it was very good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you say wittles?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, mate, I did."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I 'members something 'bout wittles. O' course. Me and you, Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When? Where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, I dunno when it was, nor wheer it was, but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's dying--she's dying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's she? And what's she a-dying for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Toe be sure, mate, said Dumlow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, you don't know what you're talking about, messmate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he does, I cried excitedly, for a greater light seemed to have now flashed into my brain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You did go into the saloon to have--Oh, Bob Hampton, I recollect it all now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you, sir? Then let's have it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was a great mistake made,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seems like it, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, yes, I continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know Barney went to sleep at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a lie! he rapped out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Leastwise, I beg your pardon, sir; I mean I arn't the sort o' man to go to sleep on duty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; of course not, Barney, I said piteously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arn't he going off his head, matey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, man; it's all coming back now. You don't know, but you must now; it was a plan to give the mutineers stuff to send them all to sleep, and it was changed and given to us instead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beg pardon, sir, said Bob Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, man; it's sense. That fellow Dean heard all, and changed the tins."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, do lie down, sir; it's o' no use for you to go on worrying yourself about tins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you I can see it all now, man, I cried angrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We took the stuff, and the prisoners got off. They're out now, and we're prisoners. Don't you see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; it's too dark. But--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you I'm all right. My head is come clear again, and I can think. We were all confused through taking Mr Frewen's stuff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never took none o' the doctor's stuff, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I don't never mean to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you sure o' what you're saying, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certain, Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I arn't."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You hold your tongue, and don't be sarcy, Neb, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm a-beginning to see now. Mr Dale's right. If he warn't, how could we be shut up down here with our heads as thick as if we'd been having 'em stuffed? That's it, sir, though I don't half understand what you say. Then we've all been hocussed, and Jarette's got the upper hand again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Bob, I'm afraid so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, that's ugly, my lad; but there's no help for it now, and the sooner we get to work and take the ship again, I suppose, the better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Bob, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, my lad, then here goes. I'm glad it's how you say, for I was beginning to think I'd got crazed, and been shut up for being violent. That's a comfort anyhow, for I don't hold with a man going off his head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it's all right, messmate?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right as it can be in a place like this, matey. Yer can't breathe, nor you can't see, and--well now, that's queer. You seem to ha' set my head working again, Mr Dale, sir; and I recklect sittin' in the s'loon eating our dinner arter you gents had done, and then coming over all pleasant and comfble like, and then I don't seem to 'member no more till I woke up down here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that knocking we heard must be some of the others,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's sartain, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there any one else here beside us four?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there be, says Barney,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yer can't see,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I didn't mean with my eyes, Neb; so don't be so chuff on a fellow. I meant with my understanding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't. Don't get arguing together, I cried impatiently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is suffocating down here. I want to understand how we are placed, and I can't quite make it out yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, p'r'aps I can help you a bit, said Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seems to me as they pulled up a hatch and pitched us in, and then battened it down again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where are our friends?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, they'd shove 'em where we shoved they, down in the forksle, I should say, unless they've stuffed 'em in the cable-tier."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, perhaps so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, o' course,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? They are in the cable-tier?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I dunno, sir; I was a-thinking about our taking they wittles in the s'loon, and it's come back like sort o' bells ringing in my ear, and Mr Denning saying she's dying. Oh yes, I recklect that, and the doctor coming. That's 'bout as far as I can get."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'member the wittles on the binnacle quite plain now, said Barney;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I can't see nowt; but I dessay it's all right. I don't want to know; it don't matter to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's that knocking again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's some one else, and quite near,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, my lad, that was me. Here's a big case behind me, and I let go on it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knock again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They heard us, I said, and answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try again with one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those are our friends there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it arn't old Frenchy gammoning us, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it must be our friends,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, messmates, arn't it 'bout time as some 'un came round to feed the crew?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, said Bob,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know what, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, sir, they threatened us as to what they'd do; fired it right into my ear, Jarette did. He says to me he says, `If yer don't soon let us out, I'll set fire to the ship.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know he did,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's 'robborative evidence, messmates, when yer orficer says you're right. Well, then, what I says to him is this, I've got a box o' matches in my pocket, and if they don't soon let us out, or put us somewhere so as we can breathe, I'll set the blessed old Burgh Castle alight myself and burn our way out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And 'nuff to make me, sir. That there stuff we took's set up a reg'lar fierce annymile or something in my inside, as goes on gnaw, gnaw, gnaw, till I shan't be able to stand it much longer, and shall have to break out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you are a rum 'un, Bob, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you're not going to turn canniball, are yer, at your time o' life?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What d'yer mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Talking about eating your messmates."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who did? What yer talking about? Nobody wouldn't want to eat you, Barney. If I wanted to get the flavour o' 'bacco in my mouth I'd get it from a quid, and while a man could get at a bit o' oak or an old shoe he wouldn't think o' trying to gnaw old Neb. What d'yer mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then what d'yer talk o' roasting us for in that there mad way, matey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, I don't know as I meant it, messmate, but I'm that hungry just now as never was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do, I said, asserting my position as officer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence, please."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir; all right, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready. What yer going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try and feel about, Bob, to find where the hatch is. We must get some air somehow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, sir. Come on, lads, and have a try. Who's got knives?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me too, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, then; we may have to use 'em."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's the hatches, sir, and they're all battened down and the 'paulins is nailed over 'em. I'll soon have some fresh air in."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't cut any more yet, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But that there hole won't give enough air for one man to sniff, sir. You must have another to let out the steam."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But listen first, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you hear any one on deck?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What time should you think it is?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the lubbers are all having a caulk, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him to have another cut, sir, and a good long 'un this time."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cut, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said desperately,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't be much better, he growled,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not yet. If we do that it ought to be after dark. But I don't think there will be any chance, for they are sure to be well fastened down. Listen again. There must be some one on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, for sartain, but they'll be up at the other end. Dessay they're a-feeding o' themselves, and got plenty to drink."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, trust 'em, messmate, growled Dumlow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could you tell who that was, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, sir. No mistaking that pair o' legs. They don't go like an Englishman's would. That was old Jarette."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to have kept some one on the watch while we made our plans,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What say, Bob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Didn't speak, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You then, Dumlow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; not me, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well then, Barney, it was you, I said tetchily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never spoke, sir, said Barney, in an ill-used tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do they want to say it was me for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cheer up!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eh? Who spoke?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friend,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, what? Who is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pst!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who could that be?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, when a man blows his words down through a slit in a tarpaulin--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think it came down through the hole you cut?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, sure on it; but as I was a-saying, when a man blows his words down like that he might just as well be whistlin' a hornpipe for all you can tell who it is. But if I was put upon my oath afore a judge I should swear as it were Plum Duff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, old Byled Salt Pork."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The cook?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's him, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he whispered `Friend,'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and that's what bothered me. If it had been any one else it would ha' been all right, but one can't quite believe in a cook being your friend at any time. After what has taken place just lately I should say he was the worsest enemy we ever had."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, I cried eagerly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, sir; have it your own way. I'm willing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we have one friend on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, and s'pose he'll doctor the lot of 'em this next time and have us all up on deck again. Good luck to him. I hope he'll look sharp about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hist! What's that?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to goodness they wouldn't. What is the good of their keeping on doing that? It means nothing, and does no good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but it do mean something, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then, what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They keep on tapping to show us where they are, and means us to go to them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't they come to us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And we can't go to them,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I don't know, sir; I've been thinking as perhaps we could."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how, man? We can't get through all these cases and barrels and things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir; but praps we might manage to creep along over 'em. One on us ought to volunteer to try."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right; volunteer it is, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There you are, Mr Dale, sir. Never say die. Wait a minute, Neb, old man, and let's set my fingers and thumbs to work to try whether they can see a hole as 'll soot you to go along by."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There can't be any holes, Bob,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mebbe not, sir; but I tell you what cargo does in a voyage, specially if you get a storm or two to shake it together. You may pack it and jam it as much as you like when you're in dock, but it's sure to settle a bit, and leave some room up at the top. I'm going to try whether there arn't some o' that room here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's plenty o' room here, sir, just at the top, but it goes aft. This can't be toward the bows. But it was this way as the knocking came, warn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, no, we all cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The other way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at that, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My head can't be right yet, or else it's the darkness as confooses a man. It's like being in a thick fog and having to steer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Try again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir; I'll try again, o' course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, don't kneel on a man's chesty like that, messmate,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why don't you put your chesty somewheres else? growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're allers lying about all over the deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, I arn't, matey, remonstrated Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speak the truth, my lad, if you can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you're spreadin' about on your back now, arn't yer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Course I am, mate; I was trying how flat I could make myself 'fore I started on the adwenter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try, pray try the other way, Bob, and don't quarrel so--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now hark at that, Barney, when I'm trying all I can to be as civil and smooth as butter, on'y Neb let out at me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's just as I said, Mr Dale, sir, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The knocking comes along over the cargo here, and there is just room for a man to creep along."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hush! let me answer the knocking first,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never mind the knocking, sir; let's get to 'em 'fore we misses the chance. Now, Neb, lad; ready?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready it is, messmate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here you are then; on'y go face downwards."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would yer? Can't breathe so well if you turns yer fizzy mahogany down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And yer can't crawl so well if yer goes with it up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You had better crawl, Dumlow, I whispered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll be 'bliged to, sir. No doubt about that, 'cause there arn't no other way. Now then, I'll give yer a hyste. Can you manage it?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Deal hotter in here, messmate. Just take hold o' my hind legs, as if they was part of a wheelbarrow, and give 'em a lift and a shove at the same time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; that's good. Steady!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Steady it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now another. With a will, my lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right. How far are yer in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up to the middle, lad; and if yer give another shove I can get a bit of a pull here. That's yer sort."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't get you up no farder, messmate, said Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I can, if you clap your foots together. I'll plant my hands again 'em, and ram yer along that way. Ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ready,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you goes then, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now another. I'll shove yer feet with my hands."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he goes. I've sent him in as far as I can reach. He must do the rest hisself."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bob!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't get any farder, mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm too big."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, then, come back and let me try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't, mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have it off, my lads. Only one, my braves. And below there, be quiet all of you. Make a movement, and I'll shoot you down like dogs."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you sure you can't get any farther?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sartain, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then make another trial and get back at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense, I cried, speaking sharply to inspirit him;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No it arn't, cause it's like a rat-trap, and the corners and things keeps you from getting back, sir."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bob, lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hullo, mate!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and Barney get hold of a leg each, and haul me back, or I shall be suffocated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yah! not you; wiggle yourself back, matey."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There arn't no wiggle left in me, lad, and it's so hot that I can't breathe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have another try,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No go, lads. Look sharp and have me out, or I'm a goner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get out, growled Bob, quite excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't half try."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, mate, but I'm getting worse, came back faintly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm a-swelling up and fitting tighter every moment. Can't yer get me out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, ketch hold of one o' his legs, Barney, growled Bob, hurriedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must have him out somehow. Got him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There arn't no room, messmate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lie up close to me and reach in together. Head in too."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't make a row, lad, we're doing our best, came in a distant voice which sounded as far away as poor Dumlow's groans."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got him, matey?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both together. Yo ho, ahoy!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, quick! I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have him out, or they'll hear on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy! Ahoy! Haul away--hoy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now again. All together."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's worked himself on till he's regularly jammed in, growled Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, once more; we must have him, or he'll be a dead 'un. Haul. Now then!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, we've got his legs, anyhow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, messmate, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's his uppards and head come too. Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. Are you hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurt?--yes! I said angrily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he's all right, sir, said Barney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We didn't break him. He's all out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he arn't all right, growled Bob, who was feeling about in the dark."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's in a reg'lar muddle, I dunno what's the matter with him. Strikes me we've pulled him inside out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on with yer. It's all right. It's on'y his jersey pulled right over his head and shoulders, and most off his arms. That's the way. There you are. You're all right now, arn't you, Neb?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my heye! muttered the great fellow, and I felt a profound sense of satisfaction in hearing him speak again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I began to think I was a goner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Warn't the skin all off o' me, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, not it, lad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure? Felt as if you was a-stripping of it all off o' me when I began to come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, you're in your skin right enough, messmate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, Barney? 'Cause I feel precious sore uppards."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure? Yes. There, I'm glad we got you out without breaking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So'm I, mate, werry glad indeed. I'm two sizes too big for a hole like that, and I don't think it's any use for me to try again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, we know you're there. Look here, Mr Dale, sir. I'm two sizes smaller than Neb; I'm going to have a try."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you'd better not, Bob, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's wait and try to break through the hatch."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, sir, we ought to get along with them if we could. I'll just try, I'm quite two sizes smaller than Neb, and I won't be such an old silly as to go and ram myself in fast. Say I may go, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, let him go, said Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll take some o' the conceit out on him when he gets stuck fast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well then, go, Bob, but pray be careful."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay, sir, I'll be careful, for I've got a great respeck for Bob Hampton, mariner. But you'll lend a hand, Neb, if I want hauling out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I just wall, growled the big fellow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have it, messmate."
}
]
|
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