human
I'm going to start from the very beginning, she said, with something akin to enthusiasm.
gpt
I'm going to start here--right here, on my very own farm. Surely the rudiments must lie here--the rudiments that must be mastered before the greater task of reading that story is begun. She turned toward the blue hills, where the summer clouds were wrapped about the glistening snowcaps.
human
Yes, she cried, clasping her hands enthusiastically,
gpt
I want to learn it all--all. Suddenly she turned back and looked at him with a wonderful, smiling simplicity.
human
Will you help me? she said eagerly.
gpt
Perhaps--in odd moments? Will you help me with those--lessons?
human
It'll be dead easy for you to learn, he said, a new deep note sounding in his voice.
gpt
You'll learn anything I know, an' much more, in no time. You can't help but learn. You'll be quicker to understand, quicker to feel all those things. Y' see I've got no sort of cleverness--nor nuthin'. I jest look around an' see things--an' then, then I think I know. He laughed quietly at his own conceit.
human
Oh, yes! sometimes I guess I know it all. An' then I get sorry for folks that don't, an' I jest wonder how it comes everybody don't understand--same as me. Then something happens.
gpt
Yes, yes.
human
Something happens, same as it did yesterday, he went on.
gpt
Oh, it's big--it sure is!
human
You mean--the storm?
gpt
That--an' the other.
human
What--other?
gpt
The washout,
human
You ain't heard? Why, there was a washout on Devil's Hill, where for nigh a year they bin lookin' for gold. Y' see they knew the gold was there, but couldn't jest locate it. For months an' months they ain't seen a sign o' color. They bin right down to 'hard pan.' They wer' jest starvin' their lives clear out. But they'd sank the'r pile in that hill, an' couldn't bring 'emselves to quit. Then along comes the storm, an' right wher' they're working it washes a great lump o' the hill down. Hundreds o' thousands o' tons of rock an' stuff it would have needed a train load of dynamite to shift.
gpt
Yes, yes. Joan's eagerness brought her a step nearer to him.
human
And they found----
gpt
Gold! Buck laughed.
human
Lumps of it.
gpt
Gold--in lumps!
human
Why aren't you there?
gpt
Can't jest say. Buck shrugged.
human
Maybe it's because they bin lookin' fer gold, an'--wal, I haven't.
gpt
Gold--in lumps!
human
Sure. An' they kind o' blame you for it. They sort o' fancy you brought 'em their luck. Y' see it came when you got around their hut. They say ther' wasn't no luck to the place till you brought it. An' now----
gpt
Oh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad I've brought them----