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{
"from": "human",
"value": "For fresh food, sir? said Walters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't they be very small?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For food, my dear young friend? he said in his quiet way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are being sent out by an acclimatisation society, in the hope that they will assist to furnish Australia and New Zealand with a good supply of salmon and trout. Look at the little beauties, how strong and healthy, and bright and well they seem!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, how I should like to kick that fish chap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because he is so soft and fat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, youngsters, you can find a seat at this table,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come and sit by me, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I, sir, said that gentleman bluffly, and as I moved towards where my new friend was seated, Walters said sharply in my ear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that's it, is it? Well, you are a sneak!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; what's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, pray go and fetch the doctor. Some of that meat we had has upset me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh dear, oh dear, he groaned,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never felt so bad as this before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shan't be long, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't, don't ask any questions, he cried, half-angrily;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor fellow!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're doing that on purpose, groaned Walters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, do, do call for help."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'd better run and fetch Mr--Mr--what's the doctor's name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We never heard his name, moaned my messmate;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I ate a lot of it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, you'll have it directly. Oh dear, oh dear! I am so bad--why did I ever come to sea?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll complain to the owners myself, if the captain doesn't take it up. It's too bad. Oh, do make haste--the doctor--the doctor--I'm dying. Then with a good deal of energy he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you're laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course I am, I said, giving way now to my mirth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you're only a bit sea-sick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not, he snapped out;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm poisoned by that bad meat we had. Oh, the doctor, the doctor!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's only sea-sickness. Why, I should have thought you could stand it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, help--help!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush, don't make that noise!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then fetch the doctor, oh, pray, pray!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, I cried quickly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Walters is very ill. Where's the doctor's cabin?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well done, youngster, cried the man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've been at sea before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, often, I replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll show you, sir. Number three's his cabin. Next but two to the skipper's. But your messmate's only got the Channel chump, has he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think he's only sea-sick, but he says it was the meat last night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clck!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what they all says, sir, he continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sea-sick, sure as my name's Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There you are, sir; two rollers at night, and a shake the bottle in the morning. That's Mr Frewen's cabin; I must get back on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you get up, please, sir? Walters is very bad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So will some more be, I heard him say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, louder,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait a minute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought it was your voice, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He thinks the meat we had last night has poisoned him, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rubbish! The rough sea. But I'll come and have a look at him directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is he coming soon? moaned Walters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear! He'll be too late. I know I'm dying; and if I do, don't--don't let 'em throw me overboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not so bad as that,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you don't know. Go and tell him to make haste before he is too late."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, squire, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, doctor, oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, doctor, oh! Don't make that noise like an old woman of sixty. Pretty sort of a fellow you are to come to sea."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear, oh dear! I know I'm dying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you are precious clever, my lad. Bah! There's nothing the matter with you but the sea tossing you up and down. Lie still, you'll soon come round."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It--isn't--sea--sick--ick--ickness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it's uncommonly like it, that's all I can say, cried the doctor, laughing. Then, turning to me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, you needn't be alarmed about him, my lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't sir, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told him that was what ailed him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And quite right. I suppose you'll have a turn next if this rough weather keeps on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But do, do give me something, doctor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your messmate will get you some tea presently, said the doctor, quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, I must go and finish dressing."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's so good of you, he used to say;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not used to the sea, and if I get worse, do please go and see to my poor fish."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, they shan't be neglected, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I think the sea's going down, and you'll be all right, sir, then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How is our sick friend?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, Walters, my messmate?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, the passenger, Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I haven't seen him, but the steward said he seemed pretty well, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible. In such a delicate state of health. Have you seen the lady?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, she has not been on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. It would be too rough, sighed the poor fellow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that? he cried, excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go and see,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And sarve him jolly well right,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, shouted the captain,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, doctor, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brymer told him and another of the men to go up aloft, and he refused. I heard him, and ordered him to go at once, and he said, loud enough for Miss Denning to hear--never mind what. Here she comes;--and I knocked him down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, my dear young lady, he continued, taking off his cap,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I apologise to you for that scene. But a captain must be master of his ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very sorry too, she replied sadly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seemed so shocking for you to strike the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, now, now, my dear, don't you scold me, an old fellow who has to play the part of father to you and your brother on this voyage. It was a pity perhaps, but I was obliged. But there, there, it's all over now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hope it be, grumbled a voice behind me, and I turned sharply to see that Hampton was close alongside."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, he said again,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope it be, but chaps who wears earrings has got tempers like spiteful women, and that chap Jarette arn't the sort to forget a blow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did the captain hit him very hard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hard? Did the skipper hit him hard, sir? What says you, Barney, and you, Neb Dumlow?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did he hit him hard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what I said, messmate; don't get chewin' o' my words over five hundred times to show off afore our young orficer. Did he hit him hard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orfle!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why didn't you say so afore, 'stead o' getting into bad habits, a-saying things for the sake o' talking. Now, Neb Dumlow, just look the young gent straight in the face and say what you thinks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Couldn't ha' hit him no harder,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not with one hand, acquiesced Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he continued, turning to me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dunno,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it's a good job for you as I do, mate. Ay, the skipper did give Master Jarette a floorer, and I'm sorry for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you see, sir, it's like this; if me or Neb or Barney there had scared one of the officers, and the skipper had knocked us down, why, we shouldn't ha' liked it--eh, mates?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course not; but then we're Englishmen, and knowing as we was in the wrong, why, next day we should have forgot all about it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But strikes me, sir--you needn't tell the skipper I says so, because p'r'aps I'm wrong--strikes me as that chap won't forget it, and I should be sorry for there to be any more rows with ladies on board, 'cause they don't like it. But I say, sir!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought as Mr Walters as had been to sea afore was going to put you through it all. When's he going to show on deck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, he'll come up as soon as he's well enough,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I was skipper, he'd be well enough now, said the sailor, roughly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More you gives way to being sea-sick, more you may. I don't say as it's nice, far from it; but if a man shows fight, he soon gets too many for it. Here's him been a voyage, and you arn't. He lies below, below, below in his bunk, and you goes about just as if you was at home."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I haven't been ill,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, you arn't; but if I was you, I'd soon go down and cure him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Physic, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, what physic?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bucket o' water, sir,--take a hair o' the dog as bit you, as the Scotch chaps say,--fresh dipped."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rubbish, Bob Hampton; how could he drink a bucket of salt water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who said anything about drinking it, sir? I meant as lotion, `Outward application only,' as Mr Frewen puts on his bottles o' stuff sometimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! bathe him with salt water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, on'y we calls it dowsin'. Sharp and sudden like. Furst dollop fails, give him another, and keep it up till he walks on deck to get dry; then call me to swab up the cabin, and he's all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll tell Mr Walters what you say, Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir, I wouldn't do that; 'cause if you do, he'll have his knife into me. I on'y meant it as good advice. He on'y wants rousin' up. Why, if you was to set some of us to rattle a chain over his head, and then make a rash, and you went down and telled him the ship was sinking, he'd be quite well, thank ye, and come on deck and look out for a place in the first boat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're too hard upon him,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, doctor. If I feel unwell I will ask you to help me. I'm quite right, only half-suffocated by being down so long."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very good, Mr Denning. I only thought you might wish to avail yourself of my services."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you; yes--of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, Lena, I know, he said;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I want you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I'll say good-morning, said the captain, smiling at Miss Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only wanted to say I was glad to see you on deck, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, captain; but don't go. I can't help being a bit irritable; I've had so much to do with doctors that I hate them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John, dear!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, so I do, Lena. I was dying for want of some fresh air, and as soon as I get on deck, captain, down swoops the doctor as if he were a vulture and I was so much carrion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, come, come, my lad, you won't talk like that when you've been on deck a bit. Nothing like fresh air, sir. Keep yourself warm, though, and we mustn't have you wet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, captain, don't, pray,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, then, I won't. Look here, then. If it gets too rough, come into my cabin and have a cigar and a chat. You won't mind a little smoke, my dear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, Captain Berriman; not at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right. You know where my cabin is, and don't you mind me calling you my dear. I've got three girls at home as old or older than you, and a son as big as Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, he continued, with a twinkle of the eye."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just had a telegram from old Neptune. He says the gale's pretty well over, and he's going to give us some fine weather now. He was obliged to blow up a bit because the waves were getting sulky and idle, and the winds were all gone to sleep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And look here, Mr Denning, he continued, turning back after taking a few steps toward the man at the wheel;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And don't know anything about it, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I've fished at sea hundreds of times, sir, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whiffing, long line, trot, and bulter; and we used to go out to the rocks off Falmouth to set small trammels."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you're quite a sailor, Dale, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, my lad, you'll do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I like Captain Berriman, Lena, said Mr Denning, thoughtfully;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you on deck when there was that disturbance?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The captain knocked the man down, didn't he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; sent him sprawling upon the deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I had been on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, there wasn't much to see, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His cheek was cut, and bled."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So much the better. Let Mr Frewen go and attend him. But the man was insolent, wasn't he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very, I believe; and Captain Berriman said he would have proper discipline in his ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, of course. I should have liked to see the captain knock him down. Perhaps it will make him spiteful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, why shouldn't I? he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One likes to see a few exciting scenes now and then. Life is so dull."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can spend a little time with the sick passenger, Dale, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean when he wants you. Poor fellow, I'm afraid he's in a bad way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Dale, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; off with you."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in, I heard in quite a squeak; and then as I opened the door--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is that Doctor Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sir, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've come to ask you to get up and come on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On deck! Is there any danger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I replied;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too ill, too much prostrated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Berriman said something about seeing to your fish, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My fish! Ah, yes; you shall look at them for me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it really is nice and fresh on deck, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it seems to be doing Mr Denning and his sister ever so much good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss--They are not on deck? he said eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, Mr and Miss Denning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I said, looking at him wonderingly, for he appeared to be so excited."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes; he's sitting up there, looking at the sea, and his sister's standing by his chair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would--would you mind helping me on with a few of my things, Mr Dale? he said hurriedly, as he began to creep out of his berth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's so awkward dressing when the ship sways about so. It makes me feel giddy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes; I'll help you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you; it's very kind of you. The captain is quite right, and I'm not doing what I ought about those fish. I will go and see to them. So much time and expense was devoted to--oh, my gracious!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurt yourself much, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, horri--no, no, not much, thank you, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--I--haven't quite got my sea-legs yet, as you sailors call it. That's better. Now if you wouldn't mind, Mr Dale."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way, Mr Preddle. Now, if you get up on deck and don't think about the ship rolling, you will soon be better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe I should if I only could keep from thinking about the ship rolling. But it won't let me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but you'll soon get over it, I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll stop and help you up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, do please stop, he said hurriedly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should go along on the weather side, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may get splashed a bit; but you'll soon learn not to mind that. I've often been drenched when out in the yacht with father, but one soon got dry again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Didn't you catch a bad cold?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a very good job, isn't it, that I don't have to shave? I'm sure I couldn't use a razor with the ship rising and falling like this."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that? he cried, excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there any danger?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Danger? No, I said with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was only a wave. Good job you hadn't opened your window. Don't you ever shave, then, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said with a sigh;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it never will,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which one would you wear, Mr Dale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I don't know, I cried merrily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you're right, he said, eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And--you wouldn't mind, would you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind what, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Showing me how to tie a sailor's knot. I never could manage it properly."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very kind of you to help me, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should wear that, I said, pointing to a yachtsman's blue woollen peaked cap."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's so much wind, and it will keep on better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course; you are quite right, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's because you have had so much experience of the sea. But it isn't quite so becoming as the straw, is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should keep the straw hat for when we get down into the hot parts, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be sure; so I will. Do you know, that wash seems to have done me a lot of good, Mr Dale. I really think I feel better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you'll be all right now, sir. I should get the steward to give me a basin of soup."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't touch it, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't ask me. Not now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait till you've been on deck a bit, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do feel better, Mr Dale, he said, with a half-laugh,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad, to see you on deck, sir. There, you've got over your bit of trouble. It was rather a rough beginning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and of course I'm not much used to the sea, Captain Berriman,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, Mr Denning, another of your fellow-passengers has found out the advantage of coming on deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Preddle, hastily, as he took off his cap to Miss Denning, and then bowed to her brother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So fresh and bright after the clo--clo--clo--Oh dear me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how can you laugh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, sir, not hurt, I hope?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, not at all, thanks; sadly awkward though at first, he said, rather piteously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Dale--would you mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A little weak and giddy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, we have been rather unwell too. I turned quite giddy once."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they all laughing at me? Look."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I said, after a hasty glance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid we were all very rude, but every one meets with these accidents at sea."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg your pardon for laughing at you, Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You couldn't help it, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose I did look very ridiculous. It's because I'm so stout; p'r'aps being at sea will take it down."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You and Mr Preddle seem to be getting capital friends, Dale; how smart he had made himself look!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Accident? Hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, sir. He was going up to speak to Miss Denning and her brother, and the ship lurched, and he came down sitting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Dale, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's a little better this morning, sir, but not out of his bunk."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You go down and tell him that if he is not up on deck in a quarter of an hour, I'll send two of the men down to fetch him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't care. Let him send if he dares. I can't get up. I'll complain to the owners. It's a cruel shame, and it's a wonder I haven't died, left neglected down here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That you haven't been, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who said he could? cried Walters, with plenty of animation now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But where's the doctor? What's a doctor carried on a ship for if he isn't to attend to the sick people?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, but you're not sick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, not now, I replied, laughing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you were, but you're only qualmy now. Here, this place does smell stuffy. I'll open the window."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you won't; I don't want to catch a bad cold. Wish I hadn't come to sea in such a miserable ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense. Get up and dress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shan't!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you'd feel ever so much better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know? You go and tell the captain he's a brute, and I'm not going to get up till I'm better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I. It would only be a lie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are ever so much better. Shall I ask the steward to make you some tea?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I couldn't touch it, and he wouldn't make it if you did. This ain't a London hotel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course it isn't; but he'd make a cup if I asked him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he wouldn't. They're all brutes here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, I cried, as I saw how argumentative he could be, and that if he roused himself up he'd be better,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll lay hold of one leg, and pull you out on to the floor."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dare to touch me, and I'll give you the biggest hiding you ever had in your life."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not you. Come, get up, or the skipper will send down two fellows to fetch you out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let him at his peril,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I go and tell him that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you dare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I dare, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, you are better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not; I'm half dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am, you unfeeling brute; I am so weak, I can't stir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You said you were strong enough to give me a good hiding."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, when I'm better."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're better now, so get out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shan't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I to pull you out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You dare to touch me, and I'll half-kill you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here goes, then!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, I said good-temperedly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you weren't bad. Will you dress yourself, and come on deck if I get off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll half-kill you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then I'll sit here till you change your mind."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You beast! he snarled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only wait till my turn comes, and you shall have it for this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not I, my lad, I cried merrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll be as pleased as can be to-morrow, and thank me for doing you so much good. Why, Walters, old chap, you're growing stronger every minute. I thought you were so faint you couldn't move."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I am, and you're suffocating me by sitting on my chest, you cowardly wretch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not I. It makes the bellows work better, I cried, as I bumped gently up and down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good for you after lying there so long. Ready for another try?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, if I get off, will you wash and dress?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll thrash you till you can't stand,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not you. Be too grateful; and if you speak like that again I'll nip your ribs twice as hard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You wait till I get up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not going to get up, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll make you sorry for this, my fine fellow, as soon as I'm well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you had better do it at once, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, let's have no more nonsense, I said at last;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wo ho!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall repent all this, you wretch!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pooh! I said contemptuously, for my own temper was rising;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not afraid. There, get up and dress at once, and don't make an idiot of yourself."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! what's all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walters has got a fit, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't, he cried furiously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The captain said he was to get up, sir, I pleaded;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me see, said Mr Frewen, seriously, and he felt Walters' pulse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me look at your tongue, sir, he continued;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, I could hardly hold him, sir, I protested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's stronger than I am, only I got him down and sat upon him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sat upon him--got him down! Why, you might have killed him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't think he was bad, sir, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should have seen him a little while ago."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's looking for his breeches, said the doctor, changing his tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There, dress yourself, you cowardly sham! he cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great strong healthy lad like you, who has been to sea for eighteen months, to lay up like a sickly weak girl. You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dale ought to have tugged you out a couple of days ago, and given you a bucket of water. There, nothing whatever's the matter with him, Brymer. Come along, and I'll report the case to the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, to see the way he was showing fight, said the mate,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Weak? Pish! You did quite right, Dale. I'm sympathetic enough with any poor fellow who is really bad, but if there is anything that raises my dander it's a cowardly pitiful fellow who gives up for nothing. Look here, sir, if you're not on deck in a quarter of an hour, I shall suggest strong measures to the captain in answer to his order to come down and see how you were."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open that window, Dale, my lad, this place is stifling."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the first mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On deck in a quarter of an hour, sir, or you'll wish yourself on shore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A set of brutes! he grumbled;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, drop it now, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall stop and help you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll stop till I help you, he said through his clenched teeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shan't forget this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, have you got any beef-tea?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beef-tea, sir! he said, giving the lad with him a sharp look."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anything else, sir?--Turtle, sir; gravy, spring, or asparagus soup,-- like it now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Walters has been very queer and he's now getting up, can't you give me a basin of soup for him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soup, sir! Ah, now you're talking wisdom. I'll see what I can do; but to talk about beef-tea just when the butcher's shop round the corner's shut up--butcher's shop is shut up, arn't it, Tom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; all gone wrong. Trade was so bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, no chaff, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should think so, sir. Here, Tom, strain off some of the liquor from that Irish stoo."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like to try one yourself, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I cried eagerly, for the odour was tempting."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I said, resisting the temptation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give us hold,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hullo! he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Walters, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thankye, sir. I'll have it here. Did you put in the salt?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's not your duty, is it, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir. For Walters, sir, before he comes on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, I've brought you something to take,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better have it while it's hot,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look sharp, you must take it, I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I stand it down, it will slop over the side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, if you won't, I cried at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall eat it myself."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you know you deserve it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, shall I eat it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send a boy to fetch the empty basin from our cabin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No business of mine, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might do the same and practise up my French,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it's sad business, Alison Dale, Mr Preddle would say with a sigh, as he lifted a little trout out of one tray, or a tiny salmon from another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid that I shall not have many left by the time I arrive over in New Zealand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps they will get on better when we are in warmer parts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid they'll die faster then,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! are you going to light a fire to warm them, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no; don't you know that fish require plenty of air?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I've heard something of the kind, and that if a pond is frozen over, and the ice is not broken, the fish die."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Exactly, for want of air. Look at those fish in that trough."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, they're hungry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, they want air; there is not enough in the water. Now you'll see."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, you see, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he served the other troughs the same."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, look here, Alison Dale, he said, as he replaced the bellows, and locked the box,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll leave the key behind this trough, and if you would not mind, I should be greatly obliged if you would give the fish a little air now and then just to help me, for I should dearly like to keep the poor things alive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll do it whenever I have a chance, but I don't quite understand; I thought fish breathed water."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With air in it. If there is no air to mingle with the water, the fish soon die."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But air over the water, you mean,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; in the water; it will hold an enormous deal of air or gas. Look at soda-water, for instance, how full of gas that is, and how the tiny beads come bubbling out as soon as the pressure is removed. Now, if I only had a few fish in these troughs, there would be plenty of air for them naturally in the water, but with so many in my charge, he sighed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, then, we'll supply it artificially; but it looks very comic to be blowing the water with bellows instead of the fire, and if Walters catches me at it, he'll tell everybody that I've gone mad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you will help me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I'll help you, I replied, and he looked so big and boyish that I felt as if I ought to slap him over the back and call him"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, thank you, he said in his mild way;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eh? Was I? he said, looking quite red in the face, and uneasy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, it was nothing--nothing--I--er--I hardly know what I was about to say. Yes, I do, he cried, desperately;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I remember now. You were close to us this morning when Mr Denning spoke to me. Did you hear what he said?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I was too far off, I replied;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he does sometimes; I'm afraid that he does not like me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You worry him, I thought to myself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? said Mr Preddle;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, about what you said. He is irritable, you know, from bad health."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he said, quite in a whisper,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mais prenez-garde, mon ami. Prenez-garde."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought to myself;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know French enough for that. Take care of what? And why does he call Walters `my friend'? He's only a common sailor, and a midshipman even in a merchantman oughtn't to be friends in that way with the men."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How ready one is to find fault with people one doesn't like,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't speak, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; but I had gone into a brown study. There, the fish will do now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He must have heard something about them,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, what does it matter? I said to myself, as I roused myself from my musings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walters doesn't like Bob Hampton because Bob laughed at him, and that's why he hangs toward Jarette; pities him, perhaps, because they both got into trouble with the officers, and birds of a feather flock together."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, Captain Berriman said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You will let young Dale help me? said Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Want him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take him, then. He isn't much use, said the captain, laughingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I often wonder why the owners have boys on board. Better have young Walters, he's more of a sailor than this fellow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, said Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like Dale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, said the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't tumble overboard, Dale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll try not, sir, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So much the better, my lad, but it takes a long time to lower a boat down, and a man overboard gets left a long way behind when a ship is in full sail."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose there are plenty of fishing-lines on board, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's get right back beyond the man at the wheel, and fish from there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll go and see about the lines,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lines? Fishin'-lines, my lad?--no, I don't know of any."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, do you know anything about any fishing-lines?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I do, he replied in a contemptuous tone;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But where do they keep them--with the stores?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's going fishing? said Walters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! I'll come and help him; I like fishing,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't carry fishing-lines in my pockets. Ask old fat Preddle, he's a regular fisherman. But you won't catch any."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fishin'-lines, my lad? No, I don't think there's any aboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there are, growled Barney;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see Frenchy Jarette rigging some up t'other day, as if he meant to have a try."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette--Jarette!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Curse you, I'll--Ah, it's you, cher ami, he said, beginning fiercely, and changing his tone to a whisper."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, not yet, he continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jarette, I said wonderingly, for the man puzzled me--I had no key to his meaning then--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What--to fish! No, you wish to speak. Hist! I--ah, I see now, he cried quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is dark below. I see it is you, Mr Dale. Fishing-lines? Yes, I get you some."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you thought I was Mr Walters,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I?--my faith, no, sir. I was asleep and dreaming. Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There; it is a very long line and nearly new. I have not used it once, sir. Mister the captain objects to the men having these delassements, these untirings, when you are weary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, thank you, Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And here are these hooks, if the one at the end breaks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the good fortune to you. Good luck you say it."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cut 'em in long baits, sir, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they will taste too salt,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can a fish know whether the bait is salt when it takes it in salt water?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got a line and baits,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can take them back, said Mr Denning, shortly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not fish to-day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John dear!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, very well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was going to my cabin, but we will have a try."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But that piece of lead will be too heavy, cried Mr Denning, now full of interest in the fishing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will make the line hang straight down, and I keep seeing the fish play near the top."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will not sink six feet, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, well, I suppose you know best, he said, smiling."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I give a twist round one of the belaying-pins?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What for? he cried sharply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think I am too weak to hold it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I said quickly,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They don't like Walters,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had any bites?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, replied Mr Denning, coldly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have only just begun."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, I know what's the matter, he said suddenly, taking a couple of steps close up to Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your bait isn't right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind! I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're treading on the line."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, it won't hurt it, said Walters, roughly, and he kicked some of the rings up with one of his feet. Then to Mr Denning--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't as if I'd got on nailed boots. Here, let me pull in your bait and pat a proper one on. I've caught lots of fish. He doesn't know anything about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, said Mr Denning, coldly,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hooray! you've got him, cried Walters,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was your doing!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The line's broken,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; it was a monster, I said dolefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, what a pity!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Missed one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir; a great fellow, five feet long at least."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of the big albicores, I dare say, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are very strong in the water. But he has not broken your line, has he?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid so,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better luck to you this time,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall never get to be friends, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He always looks as if he was so jealous that he would like to throw me overboard."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I fasten the line this time, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no; not on any account, said Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would take away half the excitement, and I get so little in my life. Eh, Lena?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be ready to help if I hook a big one, he said to me;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not so strong as I used to be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll catch hold directly you tell me, I replied;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, go on, he whispered;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, when you went down? I said eagerly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I didn't, really."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right; I'm not blind, and I'm not a fool. Of course we're the favourite, and everything is to give way to us; but never mind, my lad, every dog has his day."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right, grin away, my lad; but the day may come when you'll laugh the wrong side of your mouth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, what a chap you are, Nic! I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never saw such a fellow. Come, let's be friends; I'm sure I want to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I don't, with a miserable sneak who is always trying to undermine me with people."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Under-grandmother you, I said in a low voice, so that Miss Denning should not hear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't talk such stuff."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on. Insult me as much as you like, he whispered back:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shan't say anything. You're setting everybody against me, so that instead of being friends, as a young officer should with his equals, I'm obliged to go and talk to the men."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right. You'll be sorry for it some day, and then--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here's another, Dale! Quick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, quick, quick,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a big one, Mr Denning, I said, as we both held on to the line-- holding on now with it across the rail."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let's give him a chance to run, and then haul in. Then he can run over again to tire himself."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop it now,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Walters, don't stand there with your hands in your pockets and let Dale do all the work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir, we can manage. Don't touch the line, Walters."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; don't touch the line!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bonito,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, albicore,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suppose we wait till it's fully caught,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Mr Denning to me,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, said the captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quite fresh to me, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly one of the mackerel family, by its head and the great crescent moon tail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and the short fins on front, top, and bottom. Never mind, it looks a good one for the table, and I congratulate you, Mr Denning, upon your luck. Going to try again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, said the invalid, peevishly, as he glanced quickly from his sister to the doctor and back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you for helping me, Alison Dale. Lena, your arm; I'll go below."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor chap, he said, with a sigh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Dale, Walters, carry the fish to the cook; Hampton--Dumlow, swabs and a bucket."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep tight hold,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you want to carry it yourself?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not at all. Too heavy."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! he cried,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Barney Blane, I said,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it is very unpleasant for me. I'm afraid the men will not stand much more of it. Do you think he is going mad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I feel sure that it is only a temporary trouble due to the heat and over-anxiety about the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he is getting worse; and twice over to-day I felt as if I ought to shut him up in his cabin and take charge altogether."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I should not do that, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the owners' sake, of course."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course. It is a very serious position for us both. But there, he may be better to-morrow. If not, we must hope for the improvement when we get further south."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you would not take command?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not, under the present circumstances."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halloa! cried Mr Brymer--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; it is I."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what are you doing there, listening?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was watching the phosphorescence of the sea, sir, and you came and stood close to me and began talking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you heard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every word, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And do you know that we were talking about Mr Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; you were talking about the captain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, Dale, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he was very strange, and a bit cross sometimes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Far worse than that. Look here, Dale, if you go chattering about what you have heard, said Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not likely to talk about it to anybody unless it be to Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then pray don't mention it to him. It would only make him and his sister uneasy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid they've seen enough for themselves, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, youngster, I shall speak plainly to you, because you are a sensible lad. If you spoke about what we have said, and it reached Captain Berriman's ear now he is in that excitable state, he would immediately think I was conspiring against him, go frantic, and there might be terrible mischief. So don't say a word, even to your messmate, or he'll go chattering to that French scoundrel and the rest of the men. By the way, Dale, let me give you a word of advice. I don't like the way in which young Walters is going on. It is not becoming for a midshipman or apprentice to make friends too readily with the sailors. Don't you follow his example."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Softly, my lad; I've seen you talking a good deal with that old fellow Hampton, and the two men with him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes; I have talked to them a good deal, I said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, well, be careful, my lad. Here, shake hands. I'm not cross with you, for you have behaved uncommonly well since you've been on board. There, that will do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good-night, Dale, said Mr Frewen, kindly;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some kind of night-bird,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That couldn't have been the captain, I thought;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it was Walters,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It couldn't have been a cabin passenger, I thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it was Jarette, I said to myself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's as light and active as a cat."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I shall have it all to myself to-night, I thought,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just going, sir,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; what is it?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out there, you, sir, cried a voice from behind me;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; where is he?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, open this, or I'll kick it off the hinges."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lie down!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jarette,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then it must be a mutiny,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, have you got him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you feel under the seats?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; there's no one on this deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did he go overboard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; he must have dodged us and dropped back from the rail."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was it? The doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; that whipper-snapper of a boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, him. Well, then he'd better come out of his hole, wherever he is,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear, boy? Come here, or I'll send a bullet to fetch you."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear? came in a fierce snarl,--"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, boy, I can see you; come out or I'll fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come out! Then he cannot see me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's not here, said Jarette, sharply;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down on guard at the cabin-door,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brook?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jackson?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sitting on the forksle-hatch."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sacre! Where's Bob Hampton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hee-ar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come up here and take the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here you are then, Bob Hampton. Behold you, my friend, though it's so dark I can't see you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that's a bull as arn't an Irish one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, yes, faith of a man, but don't you try to be funny, my man, said Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Horrid pity, messmet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain, if you please, Bob Hampton, and your friend if you are faithful. That will do. Now go to the wheel, and send the ship on her voyage south. She is rolling in the trough of the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right! said Bob."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes. Smoke and be comfortable; but you will mind how you steer, for I shall be a hard severe man. You understand, extremement severe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Course you will, said Bob, coolly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can choose my crew, Bob Hampton, said the Frenchman, in a peculiar tone of voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too much talk is only good for parrot birds. Go you and steer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are, cap'n,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You two stay here by the sky-light, and if any attempt is made to get on deck, shoot at once. If they are killed, their blood be on their own heads. Where's young Mr Walters?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you left him on guard with the others at the cabin-door,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fetch him here: I did,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I won't believe it, I thought the next moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nic Walters couldn't be such a miserable scoundrel as that."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And be dragged back long before I could get down, even if I could get down at all,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Join the mutineers,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here they come,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring 'em forward,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Steady there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Steady it is, growled Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, you Jarette, if you'll just have these ropes undone on the starboard side to let one o' my fins at liberty I'll fight yer one hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold you your tongue, fool."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shan't, so now then. Jest you have this rope undone and I'll take a pair on you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you hold that tongue, or shall I cut it out?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should just like to ketch you at it, yer sham make-believe English sailor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here, you two, you are brought before me, the captain of this ship, for me to see whether I am willing to let you off easy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you're the skipper, are yer? said Barney, spitting on the deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, yer don't look like it, messmet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence, shouted Jarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, look here, my lads, if I have you cut loose and forgive you for giving us so much trouble and knocking your mates about, will you join us and help us work the ship?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No! roared Dumlow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm blessed if I do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Same I says as my mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vairy good, then, my friends, we were going to offer you a happy life and a share in our prize, but you will not take them, so we shall have to pitch you both overboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As Neb says, I should just like to ketch yer at it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lookye here, Frenchy, cried Dumlow in his strange growl,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you join us, big idiot?"
}
]
|
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