human
Ralph, said he, looking up suddenly,
gpt
I don't feel a bit sleepy, and yet I'm tired enough.
human
You are smoking too much, perhaps,
gpt
It's not that, cried Jack;
human
Base insinuation!
gpt
Then it must be the monkey. That's it. Roast monkey does not agree with you.
human
Do you know, I shouldn't wonder if you were right; and it's a pity, too, for we shall have to live a good deal on such fare, I believe. However, I suppose we shall get used to it.--But I say, boys, isn't it jolly to be out here living like savages? I declare it seems to me like a dream or a romance.--Just look, Ralph, at the strange wild creepers that are festooned overhead, and the great tropical leaves behind us, and the clear sky above, with the moon--ah! the moon; yes, that's one comfort--the moon is unchanged. The same moon that smiles down upon us through a tangled mesh-work of palm-leaves and wild vines and monkeys' tails, is peeping down the chimney-pots of London and Edinburgh and Dublin!
gpt
Why, Peterkin, you must have studied hard in early life to be so good a geographer.
human
Rather,
gpt
Yes; and look at the strange character of the tree-stems, said I, unwilling to allow the subject to drop.
human
See those huge palmettoes like--like--
gpt
Overgrown cabbages, suggested Peterkin; and he continued,
human
Observe the quaint originality of form in the body and limbs of that bloated old spider that is crawling up your leg, Ralph!
gpt
Where is it? oh! I see,