human
Twenty-nine cents.
gpt
A pound?
human
Yes,
gpt
What did you sell butter at a loss for? the inquisitor demanded.
human
It hasn't been down that low anywhere that I know of since the war.
gpt
I meant butterine,
human
the
gpt
Well, you've hit it about right, by accident, of course. Now, let's see if you know anything more about grocery business. What did you sell eggs and potatoes for the last day you worked?
human
I didn't sell any.
gpt
All you sold was butter?
human
Yes.
gpt
You mean butterine, don't you?
human
No, I sold butter and butterine and a few other things.
gpt
And buttermilk and cheese,
human
How much did you charge for butter?
gpt
Fifty cents a pound,
human
Do you know that butter is selling now for thirty-nine or forty cents a pound?
gpt
Then it's come down.
human
No, it hasn't. It's been around forty cents a pound for several months.
gpt
The trouble is, you haven't done your wife's grocery shopping, or you could tell a more plausible string of lies, Mr. Buckley commented.
human
Now, let me tell you this: It's been a long time since you saw the inside of a grocery store.
gpt
If you don't want to believe me, it's up to you,
human
Now, Mr. Howard, the inquisitor continued,
gpt
I run a grocery boat on the river, he said.
human
I don't do much clerking, but supply groceries to several stores from a wholesale house.
gpt
So that is your explanation for not being very familiar with retail prices, is it?
human
Yes.
gpt
Well, the Government
human
went on,
gpt
You don't want it to hang together, the prisoner snapped.
human
You're here to make me out a liar. You don't want the truth. You haven't got no right to keep me here.
gpt
He claimed the rights of a citizen of the United States and defied us to interfere with him,
human
How's that?
gpt
Why, Mr. Perry's son and I pulled guns on him and his three companions, when they threatened us with clubs, and this fellow pointed out what he said was the international boundary line between them and us and defied us to cross over and capture them. I made my bull-dog look at him squarely in the eye and hypnotized him over onto this side of the boundary line between the United States and Canada and made a prisoner of him.
human
Where is that international boundary line?
gpt
Right here,