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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which way are we going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's try west; we may perhaps see ostriches." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, don't talk about them, cried Dyke;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do get so tired of the wretches. I say, that young cock number two showed fight at me this morning, and kicked. He just missed my leg." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What? Oh, you must be careful, old chap. I can't afford to have your leg broken. But, I say, I had a look at the stores this morning before we started." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw you, and wondered what you were doing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The mealie bag is nearly empty. One of us will have to take the wagon across to old Morgenstein's and buy stores." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why not both go? It would make a change." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you, little un. When we got back, half the birds would be dead, and the other half all over the veldt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, bother those old ostriches! they're always in the way, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, Joe; I'll stop and mind them, only don't be longer than you can help." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't see how it can be done in less than ten days, old fellow, said Emson thoughtfully;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right; I won't mind, said Dyke with a sigh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll take care of the place, and I'm going to try some new plans. There shan't be a single bird die. I say, oughtn't those young birds to be out by now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've been expecting them every day for a week, said Emson, rather dolefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, look here, little un: if you took Jack with you, do you think you could manage the journey yourself?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's the driving." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack would drive," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the inspanning and outspanning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which he could see to." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And camping out in the wagon alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes: you'd want good fires every night; but I can't help it, old fellow. Only one could go, and you'd be happier with the work and excitement than you would be moping at the house, all alone, and watching for me to come back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But that would be just as bad for you, Joe; and you'd be thinking that the lions had got me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I shouldn't; but I should be trembling for the oxen, my boy. There, I've made up my mind to send you, and you'll go." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'll go, said Dyke sturdily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know all that, little un, said Emson;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I'll go to old Morningstar's." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You won't mind going?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, I shall, because it will be so lonely; but I'll go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like sending you, little un; and there's another difficulty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, never mind that; it's all difficulties out here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True; but some are bigger than others." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what's the big one now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! Jack? Yes, he'd better be, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he gives me any of his nonsense, he'll have a rap over the head with the barrel of my gun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How much of that is honest pluck, old chap, and how much bunkum?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, cried Dyke, colouring;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think there's any bounce in it, Joe. I meant it honestly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But he is a man, and you are a boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, he's a man, and he bullies and threatens Tanta Sal, and makes believe that he is going to spear her, and directly she rushes at him, he runs. I don't think I should be afraid of Jack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Neither do I, little un, cried Emson warmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That will do. I was nervous about this. I felt that he might begin to show off as soon as you two were away from me, and if he fancied that you were afraid of him, he would be master to the end of the journey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if it came to a row, Joe, and I was horribly afraid of him, I wouldn't let him see it. Perhaps I should be, but--Oh no, I wouldn't let him know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That'll do, old fellow, said Emson, looking at his brother proudly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall go, and I'll take care of the stock and--Here! Look, look!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not what I should have chosen for food, said Emson at last;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's something better, said Dyke, pointing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know they are good." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, we know they are good," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They haven't noticed us, said Emson, after a pause." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mixed us up with the zebras, perhaps." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're coming nearer. Why, there's quite a herd of them!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never saw anything like this, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Few people ever have in these days, old fellow, said Emson, as he feasted his eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This must be like it used to be in the old times before so much hunting took place. It shows what an enormous tract of unexplored land there must be off to the north-west." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And will they stay about here now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What for? To starve? Why, Dyke, lad, there is nothing hardly to keep one herd. No; I daresay by this time to-morrow there will hardly be a hoof. They will all have gone off to the north or back to the west. It is quite a migration." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose they take us for some kind of six-legged horse, or they would not come so near." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At present. Be ready; they may take flight at any moment, and we must not let our fresh-meat supply get out of range." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but it soon will be." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to shoot at?--the springbok, and then mount and gallop after them and shoot again, like the Boers do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! with big antelope about? No, boy; we want our larder filling up too badly. Look: impalas; and at those grand elands." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see them; but they must be a mile away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite; but they are coming in this direction. Dyke, boy, we must make up our mind to get one of these." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we could never get it home. They're bigger than bullocks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's shoot one, and then talk of getting it home. What about a span of oxen and a couple of hurdles! We could drag it back, and it would make biltong, and so last us for weeks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh! Leather!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And give us plenty of fresh meat for present eating, and fat to cook for months." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't make my mouth water too much, Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! Be quiet now; move close up to your horse's shoulder, rest your gun across it, and then you will be better hidden. Are you loaded all right?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bullet in each barrel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will do. Now mind, if we do get a chance at one, you will aim just at the shoulder. Try and don't be flurried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give him both barrels, so as to make sure. Try and fire when I do." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's shoot;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll give them a few minutes longer, Dyke, whispered Emson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wouldn't it be better to pick off a couple of these?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; we must have one of those elands. We shall have to ride one down, and when we get close, leap off and fire. Be ready for when I say `Mount.'" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you see that fat young bull with the dark markings on its back and shoulders?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is the one we must ride for.--Ready! Mount, and off." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bravo! splendid! panted Emson, as he and his brother met by the side of the dead eland, upon whose flank Duke had mounted, and stood with his red tongue out, too much run down to bark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, Dyke, lad, how did you manage it? Right through the shoulder. You couldn't have done better at a stationary target." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All chance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tired?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thirsty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you must bear, then, till I come back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To fetch Jack and a span of bullocks. I won't be longer than I can help. Keep Duke with you, but don't leave the game. One moment: make a fire, and cook yourself a steak." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stop and have some, Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No time," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I didn't reckon upon this, said Dyke, as he lay upon his side watching his brother's figure grow slowly more distant, for he was walking beside his horse, which hung its head, and kept giving its tail an uneasy twitch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very cheerful to wait here hours upon hours; and how does he know that I've got any matches? Fortunately I have." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it was all chance, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The first shot was an awful miss. Good job for us there was so much to shoot at. I could hardly miss hitting that time. What a bit of luck, though. A big bit of luck, for we wanted the fresh meat very badly." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a good--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And if I do, he said to himself," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let 'em come, he said bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I won't run away like that. Why, I could only have done this if a lion as big as that one we shot were already here." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi, Duke! Hey there, good old boy! Lost--lost! Seek them! Good dog, then! Seek--seek! Lost!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What an idiot I was not to think of that before! said the boy to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He'll find it, as sure as sure." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder whether other fellows of my age are so ready to take fright at everything. It's so stupid, just because the place is open and lonely. Fancy wanting to keep Duke back when he is pretty well sure to find my cartridge pouch, and bring it here. It's a good job no one knows what we feel sometimes. If any one did, how stupid we should look." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plenty to cut at," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wish I'd brought a bit of salt," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't want that kind of salt peppered over it," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Done to a turn," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "De--licious! he sighed," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roast beef's nothing to it, he said softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wish old Joe had been here to have a bit while it's so tender, and poor old Duke, too. Never mind, he shall have double allowance when he does come--triple if he brings my pouch. I wonder whether he has found it. It's wonderful what he can do in that way." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "He can't be hungry!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall never do it, muttered Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor old Breezy! he was frightened. I can't blame him, but I don't get any nearer. He's going on as fast as I am, and I shall be obliged to get up and run." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fellow can't do that without pen, ink, and paper, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's too big a sum to do on sand, and, besides, I don't know how fast I am going, nor B for Breezy either. But oh, how hot I am!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care; I'll die game. He shan't kill me for nothing." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can go no farther," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall never do it! I shall never do it!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wo-ho, lad! wo-ho, lad!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My word! muttered the boy to himself," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know how I managed to stick on!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do believe I was dropping off to sleep, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That won't do. I shall be off.--Go on, Breezy, old boy. You had a good long rest, and didn't have to crawl on your knees. How far is it now?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fine chance for a lion," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say a fine chance for a lion," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No: couldn't catch," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here! Hi! Little one. Wake up!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; all right!--What's the matter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Matter? why, you're asleep, you stupid fellow: a lion might have come upon you in that state." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lion? Come upon? Did--did you speak to me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak to you? of course. Why, you foolish, careless fellow, what was the matter? Afraid to stay by the game?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't know--what you mean," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean it was very cowardly of you to forsake your charge, boy, said Emson sternly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's vital for us to save that meat, and I trusted you to watch it. Now you've come away, and it will be horribly mauled by the jackals; perhaps we shall find half a hundred vultures feeding upon it when we get there. Hang it, Dyke! you might have stayed till I came back." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, don't stare at me in that idiotic way. Come along; let's try and save something. Look sharp! One of us must ride on, or we shall not find it before it's dark." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, look up, old chap, he said;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talked about the jackals and vultures, Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes; but I was in a pet, little un--vexed at the idea of losing our stock of good fresh meat. That's all over now, so say no more about it. Began to think I was never coming, didn't you? Well, I was long." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talked about the jackals and vultures, Joe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, I did; but never mind now, old chap." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you didn't say a word about the lions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? cried Emson excitedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have had no lions there, surely?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Dyke, bitterly now, for he was waking up, and felt deeply aggrieved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Two great beasts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But in open day?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why didn't you fire? A shot or two would have scared them away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, continued the boy in the same bitter tone;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you had plenty when we started. I filled your pouch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but it came undone in the ride after the eland. It's lost. I sent Duke to try and find it, and he didn't come back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My poor old chap! cried Emson, leaning forward to grasp his brother's shoulder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not know of this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you couldn't know of it, but you were precious hard upon me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear old chap, I spoke to you like a brute. I ought not to have left you, but I was so delighted with the way in which you had brought down the game, and, as it were, filled our larder, that I thought you ought to have all the honour of keeping guard, while I played drudge and went to fetch the sledge to carry the meat home. But tell me: the lions came?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One did, said Dyke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dyke, old chap, I shall never forgive myself, said Emson, grasping his brother's hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd do anything to recall my words." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it's all right, cried the boy, clinging to the hand that pressed his;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm better now. I was so exhausted, Joe, that I suppose I couldn't keep awake. I say, how was it I didn't fall off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The cob was standing quite still when I came up, and looked half asleep himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor old Breezy! He had such a fright too. I thought I should never catch up to him. But I did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you forgive me, old fellow?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can I what? Oh, I say, Joe! Don't say any more, please. Here, give me some cartridges to put in my pocket. I'm all right now, and there are sure to be some more lions there. But, I say, I don't think I should like to shoot at that first one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you going to do, Joe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Discretion is the better part of valour, said Emson quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be dark by the time we got there, and on your own showing, the field is in possession of the enemy. Why, Dyke, old fellow, it would be about as mad a thing as we could do to drive a couple of bullocks up to where perhaps half-a-dozen lions are feasting. I ought to have known better, but it did not occur to me. These brutes must have been following the herds. There's only one thing to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's that? Go near and fire to scare them away?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To come back again, after they had left us the mangled remains of the eland. No good, Dyke: we shall be safer in our own beds. It's only another failure, old chap. Never mind: we may get game to-morrow." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, hullo! he cried;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, I'm quite right," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why don't you eat?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because I wanted you to make up for the past, said the boy, laughing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm a meal ahead of you. I had such a splendid dinner yesterday off the eland." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it's all right, Joe, said Dyke;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but you must scout off after some meal and coffee; we can't get on without those." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And sugar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And sugar. What do you say to starting to-morrow?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm ready," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, said Emson at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think I need say any more to you, old fellow. Jack knows the way well enough. Set him to drive the bullocks, and you ride beside and drive him. Keep a tight rein, and if he shows his teeth and isn't obedient, tell him you'll shoot him, and take aim at once, or he won't believe you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rather sharp practice, Joe, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not with a man like that. He'll be ready to play upon you in every way, and you must let him see that you do not mean to be imposed upon. Sounds harsh, but I know Master Jack by heart." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You do think he'll take me straight to all the water?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't a doubt about it, old fellow, said Emson, smiling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack isn't an ostrich, and must drink at least once a day, so you need not be nervous about that.--There, he continued, mounting;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must be off. Good-bye." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet; I'm going to ride a little way back with you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, you are not, lad. Rest yourself and your horse.--Here! Hi! Jack!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Drive your bullocks carefully, and bring them back in good condition." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's right. Go along and have your sleep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take your time, but don't lose any, old fellow, he said;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six days and nights at the least, said Dyke to himself with a sigh," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't matter, said Dyke;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! das is goot. How you vas, mein bube?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, I say, cried Dyke, as the big German shook hands with him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hey? You vas bube. Not gall yourself mans, long time ago to gom. Bube ist poy, goot poy. Zo you gom vrom Kopfontein all py youzelf to puy mealies and dea, and goffee and sugars?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, not quite all alone; I've got our Kaffir with me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! ten: why you not make him drive die pullock? Lazy tog!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's in the wagon, bad. I've had to drive the bullocks, and inspan and outspan all by myself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! wonterful! All py youself. Goot poy. Ant you are hot, und sehr dursty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, horribly thirsty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goot! Die Frau shall make you zom of mein beaudiful goffees. Das is good vor dursdy.--Hi!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goot! Now led me see der pad mensch. Zo you haf put you Kaffir in you wagon, and give him a pig ride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; I thought he was going to die." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Ah! zom beebles would haf left him oonter a dree, und zay do him: `Mein vrient, you had petter make youself guite well as zoon as you gan. I muss nicht shtop. Goot-bye.' But you did bring him in dem wagon, hey?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes: I could not leave him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are a goot poy, my young vrient. And how is der big bruder?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why did he not gom too? I like den big bruder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Too busy minding the young ostriches." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach zo! Of goorse. Ant you make blenty of money--you gut off der vedders, and zend dem to der Gape?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh no. We're doing very badly: the young birds die so fast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo? Das ist sehr, very bad. You had petter zell mealie und gorn, und dea und sugars. It ist mooch petters as neffer vas, and you not haf to gom five, zigs, zeven days to me. Now let us zee den Kaffirs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tunder! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Der Kaffir tog is gone mad!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; that is our dog Duke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! Und is he pad too?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes: a leopard came and seized him one night and carried him off from under the wagon; but I ran out and fired, and I suppose I hit the beast, for there was a lot of snarling and Duke got away; but I thought he would have died." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! boor togs den. What you do to him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bathed the places with water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goot!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he licked the wounds himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Besser." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And curled himself up, and went to sleep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Das vas der best of all, mein young vrient. Aha! Goot tog, den. You let me zee how you vas pad. I am your master's vrient; das ist zo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das ist goot, said the old German trader." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach! yaas; you haf been pite on dem pack, und scratch, scratch along bofe your zides; boot you are a prave tog, and zoon be guite well again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Und now vere is der poy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Get into the wagon," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, said the trader softly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, vas it den? Boor mans! you zeem as bad as neffer can be. You doomble off dem vagon, und dread on your vace like dot?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! groaned Jack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baas killum." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did he den. Der baas kill der boor vellow dead? Then suddenly changing his tone from one full of soft sympathy to a burst of fierce anger, he roared out:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dunder und lightning! You get oot of dis, you oogly black, idle tog. You got sore head, und lazy as big bullock. Out you vas!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, you vait till I gom und get das 'noceros whip, und make you tance, you lazy tog. You go take den pferd to water, or you haf no zopper to-night. Roon!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know whad is der madder mit dose poy. He is guide well as neffer vas, und lie und shleep and say he gannod vork a leedle pid. How game he do domble und gut den kopf?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He did not tumble, said the boy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hit him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zo? Mit dem shdick?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, faltered Dyke;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! das ist not goot. You mide break den gun. Der whip handle is der bess. Why you vas hit him on dem het?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would not see to the bullocks. Almost directly after we had started--I mean the next day--he got at the meat and ate all there was." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! yas. He look as if he had den gros shdomach. And zo he eat him all?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; everything." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Und what den?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then he went to sleep and wasted a whole day, and I had to do everything, and cut wood for the fire, and watch to keep off the wild beasts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! boor vellow! he vas shleepy, after eat himself so vull." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Und der next day?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The next day he said it was too soon to start, and that I must go and shoot something for him to eat, while he kept up a good fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zo? He is a glever vellow, said the Boer, nodding his head, and with his eyes twinkling." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und did you go and shoot zom more meat vor den boor poy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. I told him he must get up, and help to get the wagon along." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und he said he vould not move?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Dyke;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah zo; und what den?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He jumped up, and threatened to spear me with his assegai." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zo; und what den?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hit him over the head with the gun barrel, and he fell down, and has not been up since. I was afraid I had killed him, for he lay with his eyes shut." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und you goot oop your shirt to die oop his het, und you veed him, und drink him, und waid upon him effer since as neffer vas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; I've had to do everything, said Dyke sadly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Vot? My goot younger vrient, you should, und hit him more hart as dot. A lazy, pad tog. He is a cheating rascal. A man is neffer bad when he look guide well as dot. I know dot sort o' poy, und he shall pe ferry sorry when he go pack, or I keep him here. Now you gom und wash, and meine alt voman shall give you blendy do eat und drink, und den you shall haf a creat big shlafen, und wake oop do-morrow morning as guide well as neffer vas. Gom along. Und zo die ozdridge birds go todt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go how?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Todt, dead--vall ashleep, and neffer wake oop no more. Ah, vell, I am zorry for den pig bruder. He ist a ver goot mans. He bay for all he puy at mein shdore, und dot is vot die oder beobles do not alvays do.-- Frau, he continued, as they entered the homely and rather untidy but scrupulously clean house," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goot poy: alvays dake gare of your goot horse youzelf," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are petter as offer you vas, heh? cried the old trader, thrusting his face in between the canvas curtains of the wagon end." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, quite well. Good-morning." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ach zo. It is a goot mornings. Ant how is der tog? You vill say how to you are to dem alt Oom Morgenstern. He is goot tog ten, and getting himself mended ferry quickly. How vas it he shall pe scratch and pite all ofer hims, heh?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach yes, ten, he is a ferry goot togs, and he shall pe effer zo much petter zoon. Ant zo der pig spotty gat gom und dake him, heh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, poor fellow, one of the great brutes pounced upon him suddenly, and fetched him from right under the wagon, said Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were bad, weren't you, Duke, old chap?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! he vas pad, den, said the old man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But das ist goot vizzick for goots und pites. Der tog's tongue ist as goot as his tooses ist pad. Ant zo you zhoot hims, heh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What!--the leopard? said Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I shot and hit him, I suppose; but I was afraid of hitting the dog. I fired, though, as a last chance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was guide right, said the old man, nodding his head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You do not shoode--you do noding, and der leopards garry away den hund. You do shoode, und if you shoode him, it is petter than for hims to be eaten oop alife, und you may shoode den leopard. Zo! I am happy das you hafe zave den tog. He is a goot tog, und a goot tog ist a goot vrient out in der veldt. Now you gom mit me, und die alte voman give us bode zom fruhstuck. You know what ist das?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das ist goot Deutsch for breakfass, mein young vrient." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I see, cried Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never learnt Dutch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nein, nein, nein, goot bube. Not Dutch. I did say Deutsch--Sharmans." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you are a Boer, are you not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nein. I did gom ofer from Sharmany dwenty year ago. Dere ist blendy of Dutch Boer varder on. I am Deutsch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll recollect, said Dyke eagerly.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how is Jack the Kaffir? Is he lying down under the wagon?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nein, cried the old man sharply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As zoon as he zee me gom, shoost when it ist morgen, und he zee mein big shdick, he shoomp oop und go und veed den pferd horse, as he know he should. He's guide well, dank you, now, and work ferry hart, like a goot poy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am zorry, he said, suddenly growing serious;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I want to get back again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das ist goot, bud you moost haf a goot long resht, und go guide well again. Und now, my younger vrient, I will dell you zomedings to dell dem bruder. You dell him der osdridge ist no goot. I haf dried, boot dey go zick, und guarrel, und fight, und ghick von anoder und efery bodies, und preak die legs; und die hens lay dere nests vull of pig eggs, und die ghocks gom und shoomp upon 'em, und make der feet all ovaire gustard und shell, und den no jickens gom. You dell dem bruder dot your beebles haf been vinding die diamonds in der veldt, und he had petter go und look vor die brescious shdones, und nod preak hish hart like der gock osdridge preak die eggs his weibs lays." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll tell him, Herr Morgenstern. I did want him to come and look for gold." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! der golt ist no goot, bube. Effery potty goes to look for den golt. You dell him to go und look for die diamonds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but where?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dunder und lightning! If I know, I should dake two pig wagon to dem place, all vull of mealies und goot dings, und dell die beebles die diamonds vas here; und vhen dey gom to vind, I should zell mein goot dings und go und vetch zom move. You must go und vind die places everyvere all ofers, und dell me. I ken not, bood der are diamonds to be found. Now you shdop dat ruck a dongue of yours, und do not dalk zo motch like an old vool, und gom und hafe zom breakfast, or the old frau vill gom after us mit a shdick." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ach zo! cried the old man," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You zee now, my younger vrient, he ist like a pig shild dot has been oop der shimney. You must hid him hart negs dime. You did hid doo zoft." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Soft! cried Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I thought I had killed him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach, yes, you dought zo; but der plack man's het is sehr dick. You hid an Englishman, or a Deutschman, or a Boer, and his het ist tin; but a plack man's het is dick. I dink zomdimes ven he ist so shdupid dot it ist all hart bone right froo. But it ist not zo; it is only dot dey are shdupid liddle shildren, und dink of noting bud eat und drink und shleep demselfs as long as ever dey gan; dot is all. You can neffer make a whide man oud of a plack man, if you wash him mid all der zoap in der world. Now den, der tog is right, und der horse, und die pullocks, so you shall gom to my shdore." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My brother knows all that, sir, said Dyke frankly, as he paid the money at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He said he would send me to you instead of to Oom Schlagen, because, he said, you would be just." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did your pig bruder say dot?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes. He said I should come to you, though it was twenty long miles farther." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ach! den now I shall go und shmoke mein piggest bibe for a dreat. Dot does me goot. Oom Schlagen is a pig fool; zo ist effery man who does not lofe his neighbour and zay his brayers effery night. You oondershtand, mein younger vriend." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zom men gome out here into die veldt and zay: `Ach! it is a pig open blace, und nopody gan zee me here, und I zhall do whad I like,' und den dey rob und sheat, und kill die plack poys, und drink more as ist goot for demselfs, und all pecause they are pig fools. For you haf read for youselfs, mein younger vrient, dot God is effery where und zees effery dings, und you gannot hide youselfs, or what you do. Und dot's mein sermon, und it is a goot one, hey? Pecause it is zo short. Bud dot's all. Now den, he continued, as he took down a great pipe, and began to fill it from a keg of tobacco," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to shmoke mein bibe, pecause I veel as if I vas a goot poy." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wait dill I haf finish mein bibe, und we vill all go to vork, und pack dese dings in dem wagon. Now you look here. I dell you about die diamonds--und der is hartly any potty yet as know--und as zoon as I haf dell you, I zay to myselfs: `Ach! Hans Morgenstern, you are not a man: you are chattering old frau, who gannot keep a zecret. You go dell effery potty.' Und I vas ferry zorry pecause I vas soch an old dumkopf--you know what dot is?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something head," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yaas, it ist your thick head, poy, shdupid head, und I vas gross mit myzelf, bud now I am glad. Der pig bruder zaid I vas honest mans, und just. I am a magistrate, und I dry to be, und I vall out mit den Boers, und zom oder white men, pecause I zay der Kaffir is a pig shdupid shild, und you must make him do what you want; but you shall not beat und kill him for nodings. Ach! you laugh yourselfs pecause I use den shdick. Neffer mind. I am just, und die Kaffirs know it, und gom und work for den alt man, und gom pack again. I am glad now I did dell you about die diamonds. Your bruder ist a gendlemans, und you dell him not to wasde his dime over die long shanks, and to go for die diamonds, und if he wands shdores, to gom mit his wagon, und get all he wands, und if he gannot bay me, id does not madder. Zom day he will ged das money, und he gan bay me den. Ach! he zaid I vas a honest man, und he is mein vrient, und dot is der zweetest bibe of dobacco I ever shmoke. Now gom und help load den wagon, like a goot poy, and zom day, when you grow a pig man, you may learn to shmoke doo. Boot it ist not goot for poys." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, mein vrient, said the old man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Das ist goot. Now you are going to Kopfontein." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Das ist good, too. Now I dell you dis: if Kaffir Jack--you know Kaffir Jack--dot is him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yaas, you know him; und I dell you dot if he does not work, you are to bide him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Und then, mein goot tog, if you do dot, he vill be ferry pad, und perhaps go mad. I mean, if you bide him, hey?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dot is right; und now Kaffir Jack will drive die oxen, und pe a goot poy. Now you go. _Trek_!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dalk all dot nonsense do vrighten him like a shild, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He vill pe a goot poy now till he begin to forget, und den you must vrighten him doo. Now goot-pye, und der goot God bless you, mein sohn." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "How slowly and deliberately those beasts do move," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? said Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad you are so near home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No see Tanta Sal night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes, we will, replied Dyke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean to be home before we sleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll see, my fine fellow, said Dyke to himself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you are going to begin any games just for a finish off on the last day, you'll find you'll be startled. I'll set Duke at him, and scare the beggar," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Might have known, he said to himself bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Everything was going on too easily. But the rain might have stopped for another day or two." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that, he said dismally," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe knows I'm overdue, he said," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to kick him--a lazy brute! Dyke said to himself;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a lot of stuff one can fancy! said Dyke to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, it's early yet, and poor old Joe hasn't got up. I'll give him such a rouser." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morning, Tant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joe, old man, what is it? Are you ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No makee noisy, cried the woman;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe--Joe, old fellow, don't you know me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak to me! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long have you been ill? What is it, Joe? Tell me. What am I to do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long has he been ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; he will be better soon. When was he taken ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die, said the woman with horrible persistence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No eat-- no drink--no sleep. Go die." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go away! cried Dyke wildly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are as bad as one of those horrible birds. Get out!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe! cried Dyke wildly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't you speak to me, old chap? Can't you tell me what to do? I want to help you, but I am so stupid and ignorant. What can I do?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die.--Jack?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Jack is coming. Go, quick! fetch water." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And if it will do this, Dyke thought," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No good. Failure, failure--nothing succeeds. It is of no use." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Dyke! So hard for him." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no good, Duke, old chap, said Dyke sadly;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Herr Hans Morgenstern, at the Store." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack, he said," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack bring wagon all alone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I know; but you must go back again. Take plenty of mealies, and go to Morgenstern's and give him that." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jack bring wagon all alone," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no; he will live if we help, cried Dyke wildly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, tell Jack he must go back at once, as soon as he has had some mealies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baas Joe go die," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hold your tongue! roared Dyke angrily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You understand what I mean. Jack is to go back.--Do you hear, Jack? Go back, and take that to Morgenstern's." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "They understand me, both of them, he cried bitterly;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I can't leave here! I can't leave here! groaned Dyke;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm here, Joe, old chap. Can't you see me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No use: tell him no use. Madness to come. All are dying. Poor Dyke! So hard--so hard." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go die," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Joe." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't be such a coward as to break down now, Joe, old chap, he said softly, and as if it were a confidential whisper which his brother heard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was so tired, and I was frightened to see you like this, but I'm going to try and play the man now, and--and I'll stick to you, Joe, to the--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Till--till you get better, old man, and I can help you to go and sit in my old corner in the shade among the rocks. For you're going to be better soon, old chap; and though you're very bad, and it's dark, and help is so far away, we're not alone, Joe--we're not alone." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe dead?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Duke, old chap, I'd forgotten you," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, Duke, old man, Baas Joe is not dead yet, whispered Dyke, as he gazed at his brother's face;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop and watch," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's always squatting over a fire," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe die?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here! roared Dyke fiercely:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, I want you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baas want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes: go and begin milking the cows. I'll send Tant to you directly." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Baas Joe go die," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Baas Joe go live, cried Dyke fiercely," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you? he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do they want?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have heard from Tant that Joe is dying, and I suppose I'm nobody. They are hanging about to share everything in the place with our two; but--" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I will, too, he said through his teeth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll let 'em see." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Duke, that's right, said Dyke." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall want you. You can keep watch for me when I go away." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's of no use to threaten him, said Dyke to himself, as he went back;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare not leave him to them. I should never see him again alive." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no, cried the boy passionately;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know I wouldn't neglect you, old chap, he said affectionately, as he bent over the couch and gazed in the sunken features;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be close by, and will keep on coming in." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Joe!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alone! alone! muttered Dyke with a groan;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I do!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is only one thing you can do, my poor, heartsore, weary one: sleep. Rest, and gain strength for the fight to come." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get out, you old rascal, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know you've no business to do that." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been asleep! I've been asleep!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! he muttered angrily," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, look at me, old chap, and see what a lazy, thoughtless brute I am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There: down! Oh, how could I sleep like that?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he found himself saying, as he ran over his last night's discovery," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he is better, I'm sure.--Here, Duke: hungry? Come along, old man." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, who's going to starve?" } ]