human
The supply of game for London is going steadily up, it ran.
gpt
Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper, and for preservation of your hen pheasant's life.
human
You look a little bewildered,
gpt
I cannot see how such a message as this could inspire horror. It seems to me to be rather grotesque than otherwise.
human
Very likely. Yet the fact remains that the reader, who was a fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it, as if it had been the butt-end of a pistol.
gpt
You arouse my curiosity, said I.
human
But why did you say just now that there were very particular reasons why I should study this case?
gpt
Because it was the first in which I was ever engaged.