human
Here, you keep that cannon aimed the other way, if you please! cried Giraffe, dodging behind a convenient tree.
gpt
You ought to be marked with a red flag 'dangerous--dynamite!' that's what I think!
human
Come, let's get back to camp, remarked Thad.
gpt
There's little chance of Old Cale coming back here to-night. He got the scare of his life when that flashlight burst on him so sudden like. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought a rapid-fire machine gun was opening on him; or else that lightning had taken to camping on his trail.
human
Anyhow, remarked Allan,
gpt
Well, can you blame him? asked Thad.
human
Makes me think of the old fable, when the lion and the donkey went hunting together. The lion took up his station at the mouth of the cave where some goats had hidden, while the donkey went in; and made all sorts of terrible noises, braying. So the goats ran out, and the lion killed as many as he wanted. When the donkey came out he asked his partner if he had done the job in good shape. 'Fine,' said the lion, 'and you would have frightened me too, if I hadn't known that you were only a donkey.' And that's the way with us, fellows; we were on to the game in advance, or some of us might have taken to our heels too.
gpt
Here, that sounds mighty much like you were calling me a donkey,
human
Oh! not in the least,
gpt
If the shoe fits, put it on, jeered Giraffe.
human
You know they say that wherever you see smoke, there's sure to be fire.
gpt
Not much there ain't, burst out Bumpus, with a grin.
human
I've seen _heaps_ of smoke started, without a sign of a blaze,
gpt
Did you get a good picture, Davy?
human
Seemed like it to me, was the reply.
gpt
It was just when you were all laughing at what Eli here was saying. He had his hand up, like he was going to smack it down in the palm of the other, to emphasize a telling point in his story. Say, wouldn't it be a great stunt now, if, when I developed that plate, I found a face sticking out of the bushes across yonder; and Jim here recognized it as belonging to that big terror of the pine woods, Cale Martin!
human
Say, that would be just great!