human
Here's your leg of mutton, marm!
gpt
Excuse me, marm, for coming in at the side door, but the back gate is kinder blocked up. You were making such a pounding I could not make anybody hear me knock at the side door.
human
But how did you make a path to the door? asked Mr. Peterkin.
gpt
You must have been working at it a long time. It must be near noon now.
human
I'm about on regular time, answered the butcher.
gpt
The town team has cleared out the high road, and the wind has been down the last half-hour. The storm is over.
human
And we were all up an hour earlier than usual,
gpt
If we had lain abed till the usual time, said Solomon John,
human
For here is the milkman!
gpt
It is a good thing to learn, said Mr. Peterkin,