human
Some time we are going to have a flag of our own to fly atop there,
gpt
I’ve got a good-sized flag over in camp that you may have; it will do till you can get a bigger,
human
What else do you do besides build stone things?
gpt
Oh, lots of things.
human
You fish off the rocks, I suppose.
gpt
Yes, plenty of fish round here. We go off in the boat with father, too, to tend the lobster-pots.
human
Lobster-pots! what are they?
gpt
What you catch lobsters in. Didn’t you ever see a lobster-pot? There’s some there on the grass.
human
What! these cages? How do you catch them with these?
gpt
See, this hole grows small at the back of it, and the lobster is so anxious to get the bait inside that he squeezes through; but after he is in he doesn’t know how to double his claws back and get out, so he just don’t; he stays.
human
And you catch him?
gpt
He catches himself,
human
All we do is to set the pot,--that is, we bait it,--and then we anchor it off somewhere, and after a while we go back for it and get the lobsters.
gpt
How do you get them out?
human
See these little doors up above? We open them, and reach in there.
gpt
Don’t they bite?
human
If you don’t know where to catch ’em they nip, I tell you.
gpt
Of course you swim like fish, both of you,
human
Can’t swim.
gpt
Can’t swim? What fellows you are! Why don’t you learn? What if you should tumble overboard? what would you do then?
human
Go to the bottom,
gpt
See here, you two fellows; get your father to let you come over to our camp every day, and before our camp-life is over we will teach you so you can swim like fish.