human
Do you mean you will give us both a shine for five cents?
gpt
Yes,
human
Well, see that they are good ones, now, or I'll not pay you a cent.
gpt
How would you like to climb down, Mort, and shine shoes for a living?
human
Perhaps I wouldn't mind it if I was stupid as the kid fumbling around your shoes seems to be,
gpt
Well, I think you looked even more stupid than this young Arab last night, when you lay upon the floor.
human
Well, I guess you would have felt stupid, too, if you had got such a clip as I did,
gpt
It was a stunning blow, for a fact. John L. Sullivan couldn't have done it neater. I didn't think, Mort, that that young countryman could hit such a clip, did you?
human
No, I didn't; and I'm mighty sure you don't realize now what a stinging blow he hit me. You talk about it as if it didn't amount to much. Well, all I've got to say is, I don't want to see you mauled so, but I wish you knew how good it felt to be floored the way I was.
gpt
No, thank you, said Peter;
human
I don't want any of it. But you looked so comical, as you fell sprawling, that I couldn't help laughing. I believe I would have laughed if you had been killed.
gpt
I couldn't see anything to laugh about,
human
That isn't very strange, either. You naturally wouldn't, under the circumstances,
gpt
Come, now, let up, said Felix.
human
Your turn may come.
gpt
I expect it will, if this young farmer ever gets after me.
human
But you don't expect him to get out, do you?
gpt
I hadn't thought much about it. My part of the programme was to get him into old Gunwagner's den, and I did it without any accident.