human
Are you countin' on their lettin' us hang 'round the engine-house?
gpt
Course not. The firemen can't do anythin' like that, you know. We was mighty lucky to get a bed there last night, an' wouldn't had it except that we'd been burned out.
human
Then what are you goin' up this way for?
gpt
There's jest as much chance 'round here as anywhere, an' of course I'd sooner live near Ninety-four, 'cause I do a good deal of shinin' for the men. Then ag'in, I don't want to lose run of 'em, for perhaps some day 'Lish Davis'll give me a lift into the Department.
human
There's no use lookin' here, 'cause we'd known if there was any place that would suit us.
gpt
I ain't so sure of that. You see, we wasn't lookin' for one, an' now if we go along with our eyes open there's no tellin' but what we may run----
human
That sounds like Ninety-four.
gpt
Course it is. I'd know her if she was in the middle of a hundred, an' all of 'em comin' straight for me.
human
and although Dan did not share in the aspirations of his friend, he was equally excited by the prospect of