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41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My curb rein is broken!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got to stop him! exclaimed Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got to catch Spitfire and stop him, or Paul may be hurt! That brute isn't fit to ride. Come, Rex!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, fellows, keep up as well as you can!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't do it! Wait! I'll catch you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, Rex old man, we must do better than this. We can beat Spitfire, spoke Dick gently, patting his horse on the neck. Rex understood and let out a few more"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A little better, boy, a little better,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have him in another minute,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jove, he'll crash into that car! cried Dick aloud."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't they keep that infernal horn still? It's making him wilder,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got to get in ahead of him, and ride him off to one side, thought our hero."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rex, old boy, I hate to do it, but--just a touch."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well ridden! Excellently well ridden!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, old man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, but I might not have been a little later. I should have looked to my reins. Thanks--for coming as you did,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You knew I'd come. Now let's see if we can mend that leather and ride back. Are you game?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, sure. I fancy Spitfire has had all he wanted for to-day."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't spur up so suddenly when other horses are too near you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg your pardon, old man--and yours, Captain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, answered Dick easily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll take it a little more slowly now."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A pretty strenuous day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and there'll be another to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must get in some good football practice, for I expect the two coaches soon, perhaps to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then Martin and Spencer are both coming?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, the good salary and the influence of the old grads, including dad, brought them around."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad of it. Now Kentfield will do something."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Line up! Line up! called Teddy Naylor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get together fellows! Where are you scrubs? We're going to send all of you to the hospital. Come on, Dick, run through some signals."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down indeed, but too soon,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May I ask--perhaps you don't know it, but only members of the academy are allowed out here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but we were sent for, remarked one of the strangers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We just came, and we were interested in seeing you play."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were sent for?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that is----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, isn't this Mr. Martin?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, was the answer from the man with a small black moustache."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm Mr. Martin and this is Mr. Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fellows, the coaches have come! cried Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now to learn how to play football!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hadn't we better start?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, we'll wait a few minutes longer. Porter and Weston aren't here, and I want them to come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those fellows will never train for the eleven."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes they will. There is good material in both of them. Here they are now. I guess we've got enough. Will you start her off, or shall I?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, you'd better, Teddy. I'll say something later if it's necessary. Better introduce 'em formally first, and let 'em do most of the talking,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellows, began Teddy, arising and moving forward a bit nervously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, Teddy! called someone encouragingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say it over, we missed part of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are here----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because we're here!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, hang it all! We've met to discuss football! cried the captain in desperation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The athletic committee feels that something should be done--you all know how Blue Hill turned us down--we've got to play better. We now have two of the best coaches in the country, and they're going to have charge. I take pleasure in introducing to you Mr. Burke Martin of Yale, and Mr. Wilson Spencer of Princeton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three cheers for both of 'em!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad to see you all so enthusiastic, he began."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know why the services of Mr. Martin and myself were secured, and I assure you that we will do our best to get your team into shape. To do this we may have to tell you some unpleasant truths, and some of you who imagine yourself good players may find that you cannot make the team--at least not at once. But I hope there will be no hard feelings. Now to begin with, I want to say something about training, as that is my specialty, and afterward Mr. Martin will give you a little talk about playing the game to win."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The care a player takes of himself in the summer determines in a great measure how soon he can get into condition in the fall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We had pretty good training on Dick's yacht,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I propose that we start at the beginning, went on the coach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have some setting-up exercises, some track work, and general gymnastics, and then we'll get in a position to pick the men for the Varsity by a series of try-outs."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Demoralize your opponents by the quickness with which you jump into formations, said the Yale man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as one play is finished be ready for the next. In defense, never give up, no matter how the game seems to be going against you. Hold hard, tire out the other side, and then you may have a chance to get the ball and--win!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to say that I'm sure none of us will feel any resentment if, after a fair trial, it is decided by the two new coaches that he isn't fit for the team, went on the stout lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know my own failings and I'll be trying to get my weight down----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't eat so much,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm going to train hard, he concluded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess that will be all this evening."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we'll try a little practice game, between the first and second teams, proposed Mr. Martin, about a week after the arrival of himself and his colleague."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be in the nature of a try-out, for probably those who do the best work will be put in the first squad, and from that the men for the Varsity will be picked. That does not mean, however, that those who fail to make good this time will be barred. We will keep on the lookout for good material all the while."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I want you boys to feel that you are always being watched, added Mr. Spencer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll have our eyes on you when you least expect it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what we want, declared Dick with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We want the best team possible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes--Hamilton's team,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He'll be sure to make it, anyhow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he does, and I don't, I'll kick up a row,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better not get caught with any of that bottled stuff,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry. They will have to be pretty foxy to spot me, but I'm not going to be a temperance crank just because those coaches say so. Come ahead and we'll have some fun. It will be stiff enough work to-morrow."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Touchdown! Touchdown! came the triumphant cry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Varsity touchdown!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it wouldn't have been one except for Hamilton, remarked Mr. Martin grimly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naylor, how did it happen that you couldn't hold the ball?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't have that, remarked Mr. Spencer with a dubious shake of his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, try for goal."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will be enough for to-day, announced the coaches."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are going to make some changes to-morrow. The list of the first squad will be posted in the gym."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, if I don't make it, reflected Dick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will have so much more time to try and get on the trail of Mr. Duncaster. But--I want to play football."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, Dick! cried Paul excitedly, as he burst into the room where his chum was industriously boning away over the pages of his trigonometry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurry up!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's the rush, son?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Haven't you heard? The list of the Varsity players has just been posted in the gym."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who told you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Toots. He was whistling 'Just Before the Battle, Mother,' when I spotted him, and he sung out that the list was up. I want to see if my name is there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It sure is--you played your head off yesterday,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's no sure sign. I wish I had your chances."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't you ever coming? asked Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jove! I can't wait."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I'm coming, answered his roommate, as he tossed the book upon a heap of others."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No use getting excited though."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's Beeby--lucky dog--he's made it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he was too fat,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Hall--he's on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and there's Dutton and Stiver, both on the first team."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say--look--Teddy hasn't made it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure not! Look, he's on the scrub."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor Teddy. That's because of that fumble yesterday. Who's got his place?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't see. Oh, yes, it's Coleton!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, did you hear that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it's bad news. But Teddy will be on before we get through the season. He's a better all around player than Coleton. Can you get up there now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess so. Come on. Say, let a fellow up, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Porter is off,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought he'd be, came from Jim Watkins."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He made two bad fumbles yesterday, and he isn't quick enough for an end."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you see, Dick? asked Paul, as he clung to the side of his companion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is your name there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know yet--Hey, Frank, get your head out of my way for a second; will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure thing, Dick. Tough about Teddy; isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but don't worry. We'll have him back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now can you see?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your name----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there all right. You're on the Varsity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What position?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Left guard--where you wanted to play."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what about you, Dick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'm down at quarter all right,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, old man! cried Paul fervently as he clasped his chum's hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew you'd make it. Now we'll see what sort of a team we'll have with the two changes. Are those the only ones made?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Porter and Naylor are off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who's got Porter's place?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hal Foster--a good fellow, too."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, come on, invited Paul to Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll treat you to a soda on the strength of this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think it will put us out of training?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One can't. We've got to celebrate in some way."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder if Porter's heard?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he hasn't he soon will. I'm sorry for him. He's a brilliant player, but careless. He may come back before the season is over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He isn't much of an addition to the team--too snobby for me,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you've heard the news I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About the announcements being made?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--about me being off the team."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I'm sorry, but perhaps----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, yes; you're sorry! snapped Porter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I notice that _your_ name is down all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We all know why you're on the Varsity. It isn't because of your star playing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never claimed to be a star, was the calm answer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you didn't! fairly shouted Porter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were picked because it is your money that's paying the salaries of the coaches and they were afraid if they didn't pick you that they'd lose their jobs. That's why you're on the Varsity, Dick Hamilton, and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait one minute, Mr. Porter, called Dick in a strangely quiet voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to say something to you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, let me say it,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I thought you were going to say something, half-snarled Porter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you are, put some steam on. We're in a hurry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You made an accusation just now,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, and I think I can back it up. Why it's plain to everybody how the thing is worked. It's even known as Hamilton's football team, and no wonder he is picked to play on it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It isn't my team at all!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, you're paying for the coaches, put in Weston."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's why they----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't know a thing about it! cried Paul Drew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's what I want to say. From the beginning it was feared that something like this might crop up, and so Dick arranged to hand the money to the athletic committee, of which I happen to be a member. Our committee pays the salaries of the coaches, and also for their board, and the coaches themselves only know that much. They have no more idea that Dick is footing the bills than that an inhabitant of Mars is doing it, and if any one makes a statement to the contrary--well, we have a way of dealing with such persons at Kentfield,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does that satisfy you? asked Dick quietly, as Paul paused."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would have told you the same thing, but perhaps it is just as well to come from a member of the committee. I am only too glad to help out the team by hiring the coaches, but they don't know me from any other player, and I took my chances with all of you. If I had been turned down, as I half expected to be, it would have made no difference."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wait until you get turned down, and then you'll sing a different tune,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry, said the young millionaire gently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The coaches don't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's plenty of chance yet, went on Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are to have another practice game this week, and there may be a turn about in some players."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have a large sized gold framed picture of 'em naming me, exclaimed Porter with sarcasm."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I take back what I said about your money getting you on. It did seem so, at first."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps naturally, agreed Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But your apology is accepted, and he held out his hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope we can be friends,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I presume Mr. Weston seconds what his friend says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, yes, and it was with rather an obvious effort that the crony made reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, Porter, or the best billiard tables will all be occupied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I'm glad that's over, remarked Dick to Paul, as they turned away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was afraid this would crop up, and it's just as well to settle it. I only hope it does settle it, and that no other fellows will think as Porter and Weston did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, some of them are bound to think it anyhow, said Paul easily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't mind it, for it will wear away sooner or later. I'm afraid, though, that the team will be known as yours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want that, Paul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't be helped, old man. After all it's a high honor. I wish I could afford a football team, and a steam yacht."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe you will some day. And, come to think of it I may not have a steam yacht much longer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, are you going to sell it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but dad's finances are in a bad way, and may become worse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't mean to say he's lost all his money?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, we have enough to keep the wolf from howling under the parlor windows, and I don't expect to have to go to work in Uncle Ezra's woolen mill right away, but dad is involved in some trolley deal, and it's 'crimping' him, as he says. He's got most of his money tied up in it now, and some men, of whom Porter's father is one are trying to get the road away from dad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does Porter know this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He doesn't know it's my father whom his father is fighting, and I'd just as soon he wouldn't. But I've got to do something to help out, and one thing is to locate a Mr. Duncaster,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll help if I can,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He lives in a place called Hardvale, wrote Dick,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We certainly have our work cut out for us, remarked Dick, after a particularly gruelling day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm as lame as a fellow who's tumbled downstairs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Same here, agreed Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some one walked all over me in that last scrimmage."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're picking up, declared Dick, as he ducked under a shower bath in the gymnasium."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll be able to challenge Blue Hill again, and they won't dare turn us down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we're going to try on some other team first, said Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard the coaches talking about it. But say, who's going to be our captain--have you heard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a word about it. Maybe it will fall on you, since Teddy is out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jove! it would be an honor, but I don't hope for it. I'd like to see you fill that berth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! exclaimed Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess--blub--glub--ugh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wow! That was a wet one!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dutton would like to be captain, I hear, put in George Hall, who was in the next shower to Paul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He says he's going to try for it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he'd be a good one,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "See Duncaster by all means, read part of the message,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll make a trip out there Monday, decided Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whew! Things are beginning to happen evidently."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grit may come in handy if Duncaster sets his dogs on us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, do you expect trouble?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not exactly, but I imagine he hasn't much use for me. He didn't act very friendly the last time we met, and then the sight of the auto may make him angry, remembering how we ran him down. But it's too slow to take a horse. I hope we find him at home."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I don't believe he'll see you, she added."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's just woke up from his afternoon nap, and he's always a little riled then."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum, mused our hero,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I s'pose so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Polite,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wants to know what you want,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to see him, and explain in person, said the young millionaire,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, you do; eh? snarled a voice behind the housekeeper, and the wizzened and rather scowling face of Mr. Duncaster was thrust out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So that's why you called on me, Dick Hamilton? I haven't forgotten you, as you'll note. Ha! There's another of the tin soldiers, he sneered as he caught sight of Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I had my way you'd all be breaking stone on the road, and you wouldn't have those soldier suits on, either,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I called in reference to the Midvale stock, explained Dick, trying hard to keep down his anger and speak politely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My father told me to offer you ten above par for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten; eh? and Mr. Duncaster chuckled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did he say you were to go higher in case I refused that offer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he did not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well then you can go back where you came from and tell your father that I won't sell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mean for that price? Do you want more money? I can wire my father, and say----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't say anything for me! snapped the crabbed man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't sell at that price, nor any other he can offer me. I've had a better offer than his, you can tell him, but I won't do business with him. Now get away from here! This isn't war time and I don't want a couple of tin soldiers on my front steps,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't you consider any offer at all from my father? asked the young millionaire, wondering if the other bid for the stock had come from Mr. Porter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will send him a message, telling him you----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I told you that you needn't tell him anything from me! snapped Mr. Duncaster."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't sell, and that's all there is to it! Now get out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Turned down! Well I'll have to try some other way. It will be a disappointment for dad though."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get some water for the radiator. It's almost out. I see a well over here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here! Keep away from that well! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shan't have any of my water for your old rip-snorting contraption. I believe you are the fellow who ran into me the other night. Get away from there and water your machine somewhere else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum! You're a cheerful companion for yourself in your old age,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, I'll go to some place down the road where they're not so careful of their water,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you enough to run on?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if your machine needs a drink, perhaps you will too, said the farmer's wife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've just made some hot coffee, and I'd like you all to come in and have some."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a difference in people,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't worry, he advised,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might take a crowd of the fellows out to his house some night and haze him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me go along if you do, begged Paul eagerly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to get even with him for calling us tin soldiers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid it can't be done, and Dick sighed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have to think of something else."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No team is perfect, declared Mr. Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And they're not quite as fast as I'd like to see them, added Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They don't snap back into place quickly enough after each play. Now try it again. Get in the habit of running back into place instead of walking. Be lively!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish poor Teddy was back on the Varsity, confided Dick to Paul, as they finished the day's practice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's feeling it very much, and he's falling off in form."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I was afraid of that. I wonder if we couldn't do something?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid not. Porter is playing well on the scrub though. He's much faster than he was in getting down on kicks, and he tackles fiercely. Did you ever have him come at you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed I have, answered Paul ruefully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got a lump on my head yet where he threw me down last week. But that's the way to play the game."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure. Say, don't you think it's rather queer not to have a captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and it's evident that Teddy isn't going to stand any show for it now. It will be some one of the present team, I fancy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably. Have you heard any rumors?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, George Hall would like it--in fact every fellow would, but Dutton is the hottest after it. He's pulling wires all he can--in a legitimate way, of course, and lots of the fellows like him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't blame him. Well, I'll vote for him, when the election is held."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I'm going to vote for you, old man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! I don't know as I want it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You deserve it, which is more. No one has done as much for the Kentfield eleven since the academy was started as you have this one season, and you ought to be captain. Then you couldn't kick when they called it Dick Hamilton's football team."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, get out!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nominations to-morrow night! cried Paul one afternoon as he burst into the room he and Dick shared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dutton's name is sure to go up. I'm going to nominate you and I've got the promise of nearly enough votes to put you through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here! began Dick,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't want----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It doesn't matter what you want! cried Paul, clapping his chum on the back, and doing a sort of war dance around him,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I nominate Ray Dutton!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I nominate Dick Hamilton!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Second it!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three cheers for the candidates!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any more nominations?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well there's luck in odd numbers, I nominate Frank Rutley! called out Porter with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We might as well have a good choice while we're at it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what do you think of it, Dick?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad I'm nominated, of course, but----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, but me no buts, what is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dutton is very popular, and I can't help remembering how he was against me when I first came here. But I'll take my chance with him!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And you're going to win! declared Paul with enthusiasm, as he clapped his chum on the back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've got nearly enough votes promised right now, and I know I can gain over more of the fellows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But say, old man, don't make such a fuss. You make me feel----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No matter how you feel, you're going to be captain! I'm sure of it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, there's no use saying I don't care how the election goes, for I do, declared Dick honestly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather it was some one else than Dutton though, who was against me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you're not afraid of him; are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, but you remember the old rivalry. I'm afraid it will make talk, but I want to say right here and now that if he is elected he won't have any better friend than I, and I'll play my head off to help his team win!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We all know that! cried Paul, looking at his chum admiringly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It goes without saying. Now I'm off to see some more of the first year fellows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't make too much of a fuss about it, begged Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't make it look as though I'd give my head to be elected. I want it, of course, but----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hear you won't have one vote, 'Ham,'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, half-seriously assented our hero."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I told all my friends to vote for you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So I heard. Kind of you. Come on over and I'll buy you a soda."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. They're on the forbidden training menu now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's so, I nearly forgot. Well, come on up to the Sacred Pig, and we'll have some toast and tea,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you've got heaps of chances yet, Dick, declared Paul,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have them play the Dunkirk Military Academy next Saturday, announced Mr. Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have great hopes of them, declared Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course they ought to beat Dunkirk, for it's a smaller academy than this, but if they roll up a big score, bigger than Blue Hill did against the same team last year, Blue Hill can hardly refuse to play our boys, and I understand that their refusal to meet Kentfield is a sore point."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly is. Oh, we'll whip our lads into shape yet, and then Blue Hill can look to her laurels."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I'll get them! he told himself fiercely as he looked at the list in his hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are some new fellows I haven't seen yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, go to bed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not very well, answered Paul dubiously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire! Fire! Fire! came in startled tones from a voice they recognized as that of Toots."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire in the ammunition house!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove! The ammunition house is blazing! cried Paul aghast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If that goes up----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's far enough removed from the main buildings, cried Dick, as he began hurriedly to dress,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean? Grit in there--in the ammunition house?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he's there, came the reply, and the young millionaire never turned around as he sped down the corridor that was rapidly filling with half-dressed cadets who had been aroused by the cries of the janitors."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They're repairing the stable where I keep him nights, and as it was unlocked I put Grit in the powder house so no one would steal him. Now it's on fire!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll get him! cried Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, fellows, Dick's dog is in there!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there a good water pressure?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, answered Dick, as he ran on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was the other day when we had fire drill, but maybe just when we want it there won't be any."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurry! Hurry!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Use the hose! Turn on the water! cried Ray Dutton, who was just ahead of Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why don't you turn on the pressure?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess they don't know how to do it, answered the young millionaire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of those men is a new hand. Come on, boys, I can't see Grit burned to death!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's howling now,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm coming, Grit! I'm coming!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep back, boys! Keep back! cried Major Webster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There may be an explosion any moment. Keep back!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my dog is in there! shouted Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must get Grit out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't. It's madness to go too close!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to! replied Dick grimly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll put out the fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then use the hose--don't go too close with the buckets. That wooden shed should never have been built where it is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on! Get the hose into action!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the stuff! shouted Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll soon have you out of there, Grit! Wait a minute, old boy!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's lucky that the door of the powder house is thick, murmured Major Webster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will take some time to burn through. But if it does----"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get the other hose into action! cried the major, for there were two small lines available for use at the powder house."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll never get it out with one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll attend to it!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurry! Hurry!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we can only keep the fire away from the door a little longer, murmured the colonel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are subduing it, don't you think, Major?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are doing good work--plucky lads. It takes an emergency like this to show their mettle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think the door will catch?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope not, but----"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too late! groaned the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must get the boys back! We shall have to let it burn. Get back, boys! Get back!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll have it out in another minute! yelled Dick, as he turned on the water from his line."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to save Grit!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will be 'roast pig' in a few minutes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say yes, agreed Dutton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we won't let it happen. If only the water holds out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor dog!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't stand that--I'm going to save him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how can you? You can't get near the place."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I can--there's a side window. I wonder some of us didn't think of it before. I can reach it by a short ladder, and break open the window with an axe. Here goes. You handle the hose in my place."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, Dutton?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To get Dick's dog--out through the window. I can do it all right."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm in! Look out for Grit. Here he comes--through the window!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grit! Through the window! cried Dick in amazement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why--how----?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ray went in after him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's the dog."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, old man!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come out, Dutton, come out! cried Major Webster."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come out at once."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The beginning of the end! remarked the colonel gravely."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get back, everyone! I order it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Ray Dutton is in there! cried Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He may be injured and can't get out. I'm going to save him!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back at once!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not until I save him! answered Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He risked his life to save my dog, and now I'll rescue him! Go back, Grit. Wait for me."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ray--are you alive--are you all right?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He may be overcome by the powder fumes, said the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor lads--they may both be killed."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's got him! He's got him!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back! Get back everybody! panted the young millionaire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's going up! There's a fire inside! Get back--quick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me help you!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back! Get back! cried Dick again, as his schoolmates crowded up around him and Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The explosion will come any minute! There's fire in there!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back this instant, every one of you! You can't do anything more!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is Dutton dead?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dead--and not hurt much, I hope, answered Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was overcome by the powder fumes--there was a little explosion almost as soon as he got inside--some sparks must have blown in the window. But he saved Grit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And you saved him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come on, we'd better get farther back! cried the young millionaire as Paul hesitated, and was about to lay Dutton down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The force of it will----"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jove, I hope none of the chunks of concrete come this way! cried Paul as he got up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you hurt, Dick?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a bit of it. Look at Dutton though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He doesn't seem to be,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh--I'm--I'm all right, gasped Dutton, as he slowly sat up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What happened?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My it sounds good to hear you speak again! cried Dick, as he put his arms around his friend and assisted him to arise."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You were overcome in there when you went in to get Grit, and I took you out. Now the whole thing has gone up, but it doesn't seem to have done much damage."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamilton, let me congratulate you on your pluck and daring in saving your comrade's life, said the colonel gravely, as he shook hands with Dick in the light of several lanterns that had been brought up."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was a brave act."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he saved Grit, and it was the only way I could pay him back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I couldn't bear to hear Grit howl, explained Ray, who had now recovered from the powder fumes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go see if the Sacred Pig is much damaged,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I fancy the building is not much harmed, spoke the colonel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most of the force of the explosion was upward. You young gentlemen deserve a vote of thanks from the faculty for the manner in which you acquitted yourselves to-night, and I will see that you get it. Now we had better go back to the dormitories. The night is rather chilly."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was careless on my part to allow the shed to be there, said the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When we rebuild the ammunition house I will have it placed farther off, and there will be no wooden structures attached to it. We must not risk another accident like this."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the pluckiest and nerviest thing I ever saw done, declared Harvey Nolan, one of the new cadets, who had hitherto resisted Paul's pleadings, being firm for Dutton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I like Ray immensely, but I think I'll vote for Hamilton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this keeps on it will be unanimous for him,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand you are now ready to proceed with the election for a captain and a manager,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are three candidates, went on the coach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Dutton and Mr. Rutley. How will you vote, by ballot or acclimation?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ballot--ballot!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, then I will appoint the tellers, and you----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment, if you please, interrupted Dutton, as he arose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There has been a slight mistake made. There are only two candidates in the field--Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Rutley. I wish to withdraw in favor of Mr. Hamilton. You--you all know what he did last night--for me, faltered Ray, and his voice was a trifle husky."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After that I could not stand against him in the election."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you will--I insist! cried Dick, jumping up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want you to withdraw."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can't help yourself, old man! cried Ray heartily, playfully shaking his fist at Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want all you fellows who were going to vote for me to vote for Dick Hamilton--that is unless you are committed to Frank Rutley,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No one can vote for me--I'm out of it! called out Frank."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm for Hamilton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hurray!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three cheers for Dick Hamilton!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do I understand that both you young gentlemen withdraw?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Same here!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then, as there is but one candidate in the field, perhaps it is unnecessary----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I move that Dick Hamilton be unanimously elected captain of the Kentfield football eleven, by acclimation, and long may he wave o'er the team of the strong and the team of the brave!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Second it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All those in favor of this motion will signify it by saying 'yes,'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "YES!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then Dick Hamilton is the football captain, and I beg to extend him my congratulations,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I, also,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is rather a disadvantage not to open on your own grounds, said Mr. Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Dunkirk is hardly in your class, put in Mr. Martin,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue Hill beat Dunkirk twenty-six to nothing last year,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you want to take their measure about forty-six to nothing, remarked Mr. Martin,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well I guess I'd better go to the railroad station and arrange about getting the tickets for the team to go to Dunkirk to-morrow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You needn't get any tickets for the team and substitutes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because I've hired some touring automobiles that will take us over and bring us back."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have! Say, Hamilton, there's class to you all right! You're a brick! This will be great, and we'll save the money in the treasury. We need it, too. I hope we get a good crowd to swell the gate receipts."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a good start all right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and I hope the coming back will be even better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you're not afraid of not beating them; are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not exactly afraid, but I never was captain of a big football eleven before, and I guess I'm a bit nervous. Of course we'll beat Dunkirk, but I want it to be by a big score."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, don't worry. We'll make out all right."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There come our fellows,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, and they've got their voices with them, said Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're great shouters."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're friendly all right, remarked Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, fellows, we'll line up and run through some signals."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are a fast, snappy, little lot, but I think we have them for weight,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nail him, fellows, cried Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't let him gain much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch out now, boys,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the way to do it! cried Dick in delight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold 'em, boys! Hold 'em!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They'll have to kick, cried Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Watch out!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now to see what we can do!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's going some!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walk up for a touchdown!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll do it!"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our first points! cried Dick in delight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now the team is beginning to play."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our only hope now is to hold you down. You're better off now than Blue Hill was against us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's what we're after, declared the young millionaire."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to wallop Blue Hill when we get the chance, too."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm going to make a touchdown! he declared."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me try, Dick."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dick Hamilton's team,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but I feel good!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You look like a peach, said Paul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One eye is half closed and your nose looks as if some one had hammered brass work on it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They did, I guess. But you're no picture either. Look at your left ear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wish I could. But never mind. We beat 'em!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what do you boys think of yourselves?"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, did we do so rotten?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had we ought to have piled up a bigger score?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We did make a few fumbles--at least I did, and once I didn't take care of my man, admitted Jim Watkins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I haven't a bit of fault to find, went on Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was just wondering whether you felt more confident of your playing ability than you did before we came. I want to get a sort of line on my ability."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, put in Mr. Spencer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish we could beat Blue Hill to a standstill,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then wallop Mooretown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say, can't we challenge Blue Hill now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, let's do it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better wait, advised Mr. Martin with a laugh and a quick look at his colleague."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you sent Blue Hill another challenge so soon, they'd only laugh at you, and very likely they would say you arranged the whole coaching plan merely to beat them. If you will permit us to suggest something, we have another scheme."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will play some other strong team before we again ask Blue Hill to let us have a chance at them, suggested Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then, if we win, as I hope we shall, we will be more in their class. Beating Dunkirk hardly put us there, even though we made a bigger score against them than Blue Hill did. And then, after you get your second wind, so to speak, we will consider getting into the Military League. Do you agree to that plan?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then we'll go ahead on that understanding, proceeded the coach."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now for the second part of the plan. You know it is of little benefit to play some team weaker than you are. What you want to do is to take on some eleven that you know is going to be hard to beat. That will bring out whatever good points we have not yet discovered. Is that clear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I making myself clear?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Sure. Go ahead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then the plan of Mr. Spencer and myself is this, went on Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will put you through some hard practice in the next week, and then we will challenge Haskell University."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haskell University,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Champions of the Military League year before last,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And likely to be again this year,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he wants us to tackle them--us the tail-enders, muttered Jim Watkins."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can't be did! We'd all be in the hospital, fellows, and our team would be crippled."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Haskell will take us on, we'll play them, he said simply, as he arose in his seat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But will they, after Blue Hill turned us down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad that at least your captain isn't afraid, spoke Mr. Spencer, for he and his colleague had heard the half-suppressed whispers of objection."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know it sounds like a big thing to you, for I know what a strong team Haskell has. But I believe it will do you good to play that eleven. Of course if you don't feel that you could stand the pace, or----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on! Challenge 'em! We'll play 'em."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course we will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And beat 'em, too!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad to hear that, commented Mr. Martin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then if Manager Hatfield will confer with us after the meeting and practice, we will arrange to get a date with them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But will they play us? asked Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know they always like to arrange big games, and they may not want to take us on."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I fancy that can be arranged, spoke Mr. Martin easily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Spencer and I know the coach there and he is a good friend of ours. I am acquainted with the captain, too, and I am almost sure they will give us a game. Now let me congratulate you once more on the showing you made yesterday, and suggest that we get out to practice. We can't get any too much if we are to play Haskell--and beat them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beat 'em! We'll be lucky if we hold 'em down to as much as the score by which we beat Dunkirk,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here! None of that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That treason talk, replied Dick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want you all to feel that we're going to win, or there isn't much use playing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, well, just as you say, agreed George with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think we'll win, Paul Drew?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, we'll have you in shape to tackle Haskell before you know it,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you heard whether or not Haskell will play us? asked Paul of Dick one night, as they sat in their room studying and waiting for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I haven't. I meant to ask Hatfield to-day whether he had heard from their manager, but I was so busy drilling a squad of raw recruits that I didn't get a chance. Guess I'll go to his room now and ask him. I'll have time I think."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too late!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll chance it, ventured Dick."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can cross to his dormitory by the rear path, and the sentries are hardly posted yet. Besides, I guess they won't report me when they know it's football matters. I'm anxious to know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better stay here--morning will do,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm going, I'll be right back,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sounds like a storm, mused the young millionaire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope it keeps clear long enough for the Haskell game--that is if they'll play us."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guess I'll go see how Grit is, before I go to Hatfield's room, said Dick half aloud, for his pet was now kept in one of the stable barracks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor old fellow, I wish they'd let me keep him with me nights; but they won't."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hope that's a friend of mine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Halt!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who goes there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Friend."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Advance friend, and give the countersign."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I'm afraid I haven't the countersign, faltered Dick, who was somewhat annoyed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it actually necessary?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course it is, was the snapping answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Otherwise I shouldn't have asked for it. If you haven't it, you're under arrest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm Dick Hamilton, said our hero,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some time ago, was the curt reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides Hatfield's rooms aren't in the stable."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know, but I wanted to see if my dog Grit was safely fastened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh. Well, I'm sorry, but there was no contrition expressed in the voice,"
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess it's all right--you might remember the countersign for me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not much!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I certainly do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's--it's so unusual."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just the reason I'm doing it. They make a fellow do guard duty on a frosty night, to catch guard-runners, and then some one kicks when he does it. No, I'm in earnest, and if some of the other fellows who do sentry-go would be the same, they'd stop this. I don't care enough about war tactics to be a sentry, but as long as I am here no one can run the guard on me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't running the guard. I told you where I was going. I want to see if Hatfield had heard from the Haskell team yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I find you headed toward the stable where your dog is kept, so I can believe you or not as I choose."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, answered Dick, as quietly as he could,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll report to the major. Good night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Um!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not well--bad. I was caught."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By whom?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Porter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Porter. Hum! Was he in earnest about it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He seemed so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, there's something in what he says, agreed Paul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sentry-go is no fun, but as long as we're at a military school we have to do it once in a while. Still if enough of us enforced the rules, as I suppose we ought to do, there'd be one of two things happen. They'd either abolish it, or running the guard would stop, and there wouldn't be anything for the sentries to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's so. Well, I'm the goat to-night. Might as well have a bad job over with. I'm going to report."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you didn't see Hatfield?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, we'll have to wait until morning to hear."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hum! Well, don't do it again. You may write me out a page of field tactics and consider yourself relieved of arrest. Don't do it again. Good night, Captain Hamilton."
}
]
|
41410 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's not a circumstance to what we used to do, eh, Ned, when we were camped near some city and wanted to go in and have a good time?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right,"
}
]
|
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