human
Ah, I'm Bridget McCartey, you know, an' you were hurted by the lads throwin' a baseball into your ribs. It's lyin' here a week sick you've been, and, savin' your pardon, the sooner you tell me where your folks live the better. They'll be fair wild about you.
gpt
I have no family at all,
human
Sure an' don't I know how 'tis. Pat an' I left every one of our kith behind us, mostly, when we come away, and it's that hungry for thim that I get. I dare say it ill becomes me to say it, but the first thing I says to myself when I see you was how like you are to one of my father's brothers in County Kerry. It's been a real comfort to have you here sick, as though I had some of my own kin near. _His_ name was Jerry. It's not possible, is't, that the J. on your handkerchief stands for Jerry, too?
gpt
My name is Jeroboam Mordecai.
human
Exactly to a hair like Uncle Jerry's! cried Mrs. McCartey, overjoyed by the coincidence.
gpt
Except that his J. stood for Jeremiah and his M. for Michael. If you will tell me your last name, too, I'll try and lambaste the children into callin' you proper. Not havin' sorra name to speak of you by, and hearin' me say to Pat how you favored my father's brother, haven't they taken to callin' _you_ Uncle Jerry--more shame to them!
human
But you have so little space for all your family--you should not have taken me in; where can the children sleep?
gpt
human
Now lay still, Uncle Jerry, and kape yourself cool. The name slipped out unnoticed in her hospitable fervor
gpt
Wasn't it the least we could do when 'twas our own Mike's ball that came near killin' you? An' the children--the boys, that is, that this is their room--isn't it out in the barn they're sleepin' on the hay? An' that pleased with it. Pat and I were thinkin' that now was a good chance to teach them to give up things--when you've no old folks about you, the children are so apt to grow up selfish-like--but they think the barn's better nor the house, bless them, so don't _you_ worry.
human
Now thin, you've talked enough, she said.
gpt
Take a sup of sleep for a while.