human
Hurrah!
gpt
Shame on you, Peterkin, said I, as I reloaded his rifle for him--
human
Ha, boy! it's all very well for you to say that now, but you know well enough that you would rather have lost your ears than have missed such a chance as this. But, I say, it'll puzzle you to stuff that fellow, won't it?
gpt
No doubt of it, answered Jack, as he drew a percussion cap from his pouch, and placed it carefully on the nipple of his rifle.
human
Ralph will not find it easy; and it's a pity, too, not to take it home with us, for under a glass case it would make such a pretty and appropriate _pendant_, in his museum, to that interesting frog with which you--
gpt
Oh, you sneaking eavesdropper! cried Peterkin, laughing.
human
It is really too bad that a fellow can't have a little _tete-a-tete_ with a friend but you and Ralph must be thrusting your impertinent noses in the way.
gpt
Not to mention the rhinoceros,
human
Ah! to be sure--the rhinoceros; yes, I might have expected to find you in such low company, for `birds of a feather,' you know, are said to `flock together.'
gpt
If there be any truth in that, said I,
human
As Shakespeare has it. Well, well, who would have thought that so conversable and intelligent a creature should have come to such a melancholy end?