human
You goin' on this ship?
gpt
I hope so. I've just come down to see how the chances are.
human
Push that had been listening mostly in quarter and three-quarter face, wheeled about, and all their
gpt
What do they usually give?
human
Oh, I don't know,
gpt
Push
human
Thirty shillings,
gpt
Is that what you get?
human
You hask thirty shillings then,
gpt
What are ye all talking about? he said.
human
I tell ye what it is, now, he went on, turning to the stranger.
gpt
There's some of these fellers go over for tin shillin's; the most of them don't get more'n a pound, and when it's getting cold here you'll find 'em runnin' round and saying, 'I'll go for fifteen shillin's, mister.' But if ye came down from beyant in the cars yourself ye're all right. You fellers that come down from The Great Plains goes on with your own cattle on the ships if ye want.
human
Push
gpt
Want more than ten shillings, said the subject of their discussion.
human
Ten shillings for across the Atlantic! Good Lord!
gpt
There now! What was I tellin' ye?
human
What does he want comin' round?
gpt
Did ye come down on the cars?
human
No--I didn't come down with cattle. I can't tell them that so as to get on.
gpt
There you are then!
human
Well, young feller, he said,