human
Much obliged to you indeed; but I don't want it yet.
gpt
Want what?
human
Your leg, which you are kind enough to hold out for me to sit on. I must go and see after my wife for a few minutes. Dear me! what a troublesome business a family is! (though the idle little rogue did nothing at all, but left his poor wife to lay all the eggs by herself).
gpt
When I come back, I shall be glad of it, if you'll be so good as to keep it sticking out just so;
human
Ah, you were tired waiting? Well, your other leg will do as well.
gpt
So you live under the water? It's a low place. I lived there for some time, and was very shabby and dirty. But I didn't choose that that should last. So I turned respectable, and came up to the top, and put on this suit. It's a business-like suit, don't you think?
human
Very neat and quiet indeed,
gpt
Yes, one must be quiet and neat and respectable, and all that sort of thing for a little, when one becomes a family man. But I'm tired of it, that's the truth. I've done quite enough business, I consider, in the last week, to last me my life. So I shall put on a ball dress, and go out and be a smart man, and see the gay world, and have a dance or two. Why shouldn't one be jolly if one can?
human
And what will become of your wife?
gpt
Oh! she is a very plain, stupid creature, and that's the truth; and thinks about nothing but eggs. If she chooses to come, why she may; and if not, why I go without her; and here I go.
human
Why, you're ill!
gpt
You're dead,
human
No, I ain't! answered a little squeaking voice over his head.
gpt
This is me up here, in my ball dress; and that's my skin. Ha, ha! you could not do such a trick as that!