human
A nice kind of a chump you are! Let a feller burn your house down, an' then pay him fifteen cents for doin' it! After that, when I make up my mind to give him the dose he needs, you turn against me to help him! I s'pose that's what you call bein' a chum of mine?
gpt
That's exactly what it is, Dan, Seth replied soothingly.
human
After you've cooled off a bit you'll be glad I didn't let you pitch into a feller who wouldn't raise his hands.
gpt
He didn't 'cause he don't dare.
human
If a feller had any spunk about him he would dare to do all he could while somebody else was thumpin' him. Jip feels bad for what he did to us, an' would stand still to let you pound him; but it couldn't have done you any good, Dan. You don't want to get the name of bein' a bruiser.
gpt
I'd be willin' to take 'most any kind of a name rather'n let Jip Collins off without so much as turnin' a hair on his head!
human
That's the way you feel jest now 'cause you're off your base; but wait a couple of hours, an' then you'll talk different.
gpt
I won't if I live to be twice as gray-headed as ever Methuselah was, for it's a downright shame to let him go with money in his pockets after tryin' to kill us.
human
He was hungry.
gpt
It would do him solid good to starve to death.
human
He turned in the alarm, an' if he hadn't done that we'd been burned to death.
gpt
I notice he didn't do it till the fire got a mighty good start, an' then I reckon it was only 'cause he grew scared. If you're so 'fraid of gettin' your name up for fightin', you might er stood still and let me have a whack at him. I don't see how that could have hindered your slippin' into the Department. I wouldn't be quite so mad if you hadn't given him the money.
human
He was hungry, Dan, an' I'd do that much for the biggest duffer in the town.