human
Well, and what do you think of this country, Mr Sellon?
gpt
I think various things, Mrs Selwood, was the ready reply.
human
Parts of it are lovely, and parts of it are grand, and one gets a fine opportunity of seeing it all during a fortnight's journey behind three horses. But other parts, on the other hand, and notably the latitudes inhabited by friend Fanning here, reminded me forcibly of the Yankee's reply to the same question.
gpt
And what was that?
human
Why, he was travelling in that awful Karroo during a drought, and somebody asked him what he thought of the country, `What do I think of your country?' says he. `See here, stranger, if I owned a section of your country I guess I'd enclose that section well around, and send out for a paint-pot and paint it green.'
gpt
Well, that wouldn't hold good of our part,
human
Oh no, no, assented the stranger, hurriedly.
gpt
Let me clear myself of that charge of heresy without delay. Words are inadequate to describe the beauties of the road as soon as we got into these mountains. I'm serious, mind.
human
Well, we must contrive to show you more of them, said his hostess.
gpt
Are you fond of shooting, Mr Sellon?
human
He just is, put in Renshaw.
gpt
He kept us in game all along the road, and in chronic hot water with all the Dutchmen whose places we passed, by knocking over springboks under their very windows without so much as a `by your leave.'
human
Well, it's better to be the shooter than the shootee, eh, Fanning? But that joke'll keep,
gpt
We can show you plenty of fun in that line here, said Christopher.
human
The mountains are swarming with rhybok, and there are any amount of partridges and quail. Plenty of bushbucks, too, in the kloofs, and guinea-fowl. Hallo, by Jove! it's time to go and count in,