human
Why, ain't it a part of my business to start the fire every time? demanded the party in question, who was on his knees;
gpt
But we want supper, and we don't mean to sit around here an hour or two, just watchin' you tinker with that silly old bow and stick, twirling away like you had to saw through to China. How about that, Thad?
human
Bumpus is right, Giraffe, the other said, kindly but firmly.
gpt
You're welcome to spend all the time you want with that contraption, after you've started our cooking fire; but it wouldn't be fair to hold up the whole bunch just to please yourself. Your own good sense tells you that, Giraffe.
human
Just when I had a new scheme in my head, too, that I just know would have made the fire come, he grumbled, as he hung the little bow on a twig of a tree near by, and produced flint and steel, and a little bag in which he kept tinder, in the shape of tiny shavings which he was always preparing at odd moments;
gpt
And that's the way it'll be after I've just got that one little snag passed, he took occasion to remark, for the benefit of the fat scout, who was hovering near by.
human
Everything's easy as tumbling off a log, once you know how. P'raps you remember what a time you had learnin' to ride a bike; and yet now you can cut around corners, and even stand on the saddle while she's going. Well, you wait and see my smoke.
gpt
Huh! that's all I ever will see, I'm afraid,