human
How be you this fine day, miss? the old fellow asked sociably.
gpt
It's enough to put new marrer in old bones, this weather. Cold weather lays me up same's any old hulk. An' I been used to work, I have, all my life. Warn't none of 'em any better'n me in my day.
human
You have done your share, I am sure, Mr. Gallup, the girl said, smiling cheerfully down upon him.
gpt
Yours is the time for rest.
human
Rest? How you talk! exclaimed Washy.
gpt
A man ought to be able to aim his own pollock and potaters, or else he might's well give up the ship. I tell 'em if I was only back in my young days where I could do a full day's work, I'd be satisfied.
human
Them's curious critters. All crabs is.
gpt
I think they are curious, Louise agreed.
human
Like a cross-eyed man. Look one way and run another.
gpt
Surely--surely. Talk about a curiosity--the curiousest-osity I ever see was a crab they have in Japanese waters; big around's a clam-bucket and dangling gre't long laigs to it like a sea-going giraffe.