human
He's married, he went on, returning to the original subject.
gpt
I took him an' his wife up to the Jack-o'-Lantern last night. Come in on the nine forty-seven from the Junction. Reckon they're goin' to stay a spell, 'cause they've got trunks--one of a reasonable size, an' 'nother that looks like a dog-house. Box, too, that's got lead in it.
human
Books, maybe, suggested the blacksmith, with unexpected discernment.
gpt
Schoolteacher boarded to our house wunst an' she had most a car-load of 'em. Educated folks has to have books to keep from losin' their education.
human
Don't take much stock in it myself, remarked the driver.
gpt
It spiles most folks. As soon as they get some, they begin to pine an' hanker for more. I knowed a feller wunst that begun with one book dropped on the road near the sanitarium, an' he never stopped till he was plum through college. An' a woman up there sent my darter a book wunst, an' I took it right back to her. 'My darter's got a book,' says I, 'an' she ain't a-needin' of no duplicates. Keep it,' says I, 'fer somebody that ain't got no book.
human
Do you reckon, asked the blacksmith, after a long silence,
gpt
I ain't a-sayin', answered Mr. Blake, cautiously.
human
They're educated, an' there's no tellin' what educated folks is goin' to do. This young lady, now, that come up with him last night, she said it was 'a dear old place an' she loved it a'ready.' Them's her very words!
gpt
Do tell!
human
That's c'rrect, an' as I said before, when you're dealin' with educated folks, you're swimmin' in deep water with the shore clean out o' sight. Education was what ailed him.
gpt
I've hearn, he went on, taking a fresh bite from his morning purchase of
human
gpt
Do you reckon, asked the blacksmith,
human
Company, snickered Mr. Blake,
gpt
Hush! warned the blacksmith, in a harsh whisper.
human
He's a-comin'!
gpt
City feller,
human
Good-morning, said Harlan, pleasantly, though not without an air of condescension.
gpt
Can you tell me where I can find the stage-driver?
human
That's me, grunted Mr. Blake.
gpt
Be you wantin' anythin'?
human
Only to pay you for taking us up to the house last night, and to arrange about our trunks. Can you deliver them this afternoon?
gpt
I ain't a-runnin' of no livery, but I can take 'em up, if that's what you're wantin'.
human
Exactly, said Harlan,
gpt
Must sure have a ailment, he commented,
human
Reckon it's true enough. I took a ham wunst up to the sanitarium for a young sprig of a doctor that was too proud to carry it himself. He was goin' that way, too--walkin' up to save money--so I charged him for carryin' up the ham just what I'd have took both for. 'Pigs is high,' I told him, 'same price for one as for 'nother,' but he didn't pay no attention to it an' never raised no kick about the price. Thinkin' 'bout sunthin' else, most likely--most of 'em are.
gpt
In fact, he was possessed by portentous uneasiness. There was well-defined doubt in his mind regarding his reception at the Jack-o'-Lantern. Dorothy's parting words had been plain--almost to the point of rudeness, he reflected, unhappily, and he was not sure that