human
Did they come with Sam Baker's team?
gpt
Yes.
human
Last July?
gpt
Yes.
human
And Sam drove the horses here for a bite?
gpt
I believe so.
human
And them's your relations?
gpt
They are.
human
They don't--have--this--child--then!
gpt
But why?
human
Oh, why? I saw them! That's why, and enough! You can't play any such gay and festive skeletons on this poor baby for flesh and blood parents. No, sir!
gpt
I think you judge them hastily, Miss Bessy, said North, secretly amused;
human
What! that dried cuttle-fish, with nothing livin' about her but her eyes? James North, ye may be a fool like the old woman,--perhaps it's in the family,--but ye ain't a devil, like that gal! That ends it.