human
There! cried Cap'n Amazon, with boyish relief.
gpt
That don't show nothin', said Betty Gallup from the doorway. She had removed her hat and coat and was revealed now as a woman approaching seventy, her iron-gray hair twisted into a
human
so that it could be completely hidden when she had the hat on her head.
gpt
That don't show nothin',
human
Why don't it, I want to know?
gpt
Blind!
human
It can't be,
gpt
I found that out a year an' more ago, Betty announced.
human
Didn't want to tell Cap'n Abe--he was that foolish about the old bird. Jerry's used to Cap'n Abe chirping to him and putting his finger 'twixt the slats of the cage for him to perch on. He just thinks you're Cap'n Abe.
gpt
Blind! he repeated.
human
I want to know! Both his deadlights out. Too bad! Too bad!
gpt
I s'pose that's somebody come aboard for a yard o' tape, or the seizings of a pair of shoes, he growled.
human
I'd ought to hauled in the gang-plank when we set down.
gpt
Cap'n Abe.
human
Give me coupla dozen clothespins and a big darnin' needle, Cap'n Abe. I got my wash ready to hang out and found them pesky young 'uns of Myra Stout's had got holt o' my pin bag and fouled the pins all up usin' 'em for markers in their garden. I want--land sakes! Who--what---- _Where's_ Cap'n Abe?
gpt
He ain't here just now, Cap'n Amazon replied.
human
I'm his brother. You'll have to pick out the needle you want. I can find and count the clothespins, I guess. Two dozen, you say?
gpt
Land sakes! Cap'n Abe gone away? Don't seem possible.
human
There's a hull lot of seemin' impossible things in this world that come to pass just the same, the substitute storekeeper made answer, with some tartness.
gpt
Here's the needle drawer. Find what you want, ma'am.