human
Watch! I say, watch! I heard a voice whisper,
gpt
How should I know? I growled;
human
Oh, yes, I dare say, it replied;
gpt
What's to be done?
human
Hold your tongues, if we've nothing to say,
gpt
Oh, but I've a lot to say, went on this irrepressible chatterbox;
human
said I, angrily;
gpt
But it's not through my carelessness; it was through the hole in the pocket you got down here.
human
If you had half the sense of a--
gpt
Of a nickel watch, let us say, said the watered ribbon, losing his temper;
human
If you had half the sense of a blade of grass, you would have been able to prevent it.
gpt
But you see I hadn't half the sense of a blade of grass, or a quarter, or an eighth, or a sixteenth. If I had I should have known better than to lend my moral support to a good-for-nothing, tarnished, ill- regulated, mendacious piece of Britannia metal, that chooses to call itself a silver watch. Ha, ha! what do you think of that?