human
Look at it, Ned! he said, with energy.
gpt
Not only do both of these wretched nations come down to this new state of things, themselves, including the newspapers and the magazines and the floods of books, but they are clubbing together to force innovations upon all the rest of the world. They are a partnership concern now, and which of them is the meanest I don't know. The British are choking their inventions down the throats of China, India, Africa, and a lot of other unlucky continents and islands. We Americans are working in the same way with Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines and Magatapatanglew.
human
Where on earth is that?
gpt
Where is it? sadly responded his uncle, shaking his head.
human
I really don't know. Nobody else knows where half of these new places are, with long-tail names. I've a kind of notion it's near the junction.
gpt
What junction?
human
Why! exclaimed Uncle Jack.
gpt
The junction? You don't know? It is at the corner where the Congo River crosses the Ganges. It is very near the point where the Ural Mountains pour down into the Red Sea.
human
Oh, I know where that is! I've been to Grammar School Sixty-eight. I know! It's down near the custom house.
gpt
I declare! said his uncle.
human
Boys know too much, anyhow, nowadays. You would learn a great deal more, though, if you'd take an army and a steamer, and go and conquer England. Your mother has dozens of cousins there, too. But you had better buy return excursion tickets before you start. That's what I did, and it helped me to get back home. Let's go to dinner.
gpt
It's about dinner-time,
human
I like the English for one thing, he said.
gpt
They cook good dinners. I hate 'em for another thing, though: if you go to an English dinner-party, you have to wait till the last man gets there before they will give you anything to eat. I conquered them a little on that, anyhow, for I always went two hours late, myself. So I generally had to wait only about half an hour or so.