human
Aunt, what makes you keep that gander year after year? said I one evening, as we were sitting on the lawn before the door.
gpt
Is it because he is a kind of watchdog, and keeps troublesome people away?
human
No, child, no; I do not wish to keep most people away--not well-behaved people--nor to distress nor annoy any one. The fact is, there is a story about that gander that I do not like to speak of to every one--something that makes me feel tender toward him; so that if he needs a whipping I would rather do it. He knows something that no one else knows. I could not have him killed or sent away. You have heard me speak of Nathaniel, my oldest boy?
gpt
Yes.