human
How handy it would be to jest onmoor the woodhouse and row over to the main land and git the year's stock of wood, and then row back agin, cast anchor and hitch it onto the house agin.
gpt
Once a year! sez Josiah.
human
You forgit how much kindlin' wood a woman uses. Sez he,
gpt
When she that wuz Arvilly Nash worked here I believe we used a woodhouse full a day. If we had a floatin' woodhouse here, we should had to embark on it once a day at least and load it up with shavin's and kindlin' wood. Samantha is more eqinomical,
human
But, sez Uncle Nate,
gpt
I hearn that Whitfield's folks wuz layin' out to use a coal oil stove durin' the summer.
human
So they be,
gpt
How handy it would be for a picnic, jest fill the woodhouse full of Highlariers and set off, baskets, bundles and all. It would do away with parasols; no jabbin' 'em into a man's eyes, or proddin' his ears with the pints of umbrells. Or on funeral occasions, sez he,
human
What if it should break loose in the night and start off by itself? It would be a danger to the hull river. How would boats feel to meet a woodhouse? It would jam right into 'em and sink 'em--sunk by a woodhouse! It wouldn't sound well. And row boats would always be afraid of it, they'd be thinkin' it would be liable to come onto 'em at any time onbeknown to 'em, 'twouldn't have no whistle or anything.
gpt
Yes it would, sez Josiah hautily;
human
I laid out to fix it somehow with a whistle.
gpt
But it couldn't whistle itself if it sot off alone.
human
Well, sez Josiah, scratchin' his head,
gpt
I hain't got that idee quite perfected, but I might have a self actin' whistle, a stationary self movin' gong, or sunthin' of that kind.