human
Oh, Tanta, Tanta, just look at them, cried Polly in a rapture.
gpt
And which is to be mine?
human
None of those spindle-legs yonder, was Peggy's amused answer.
gpt
They will be running at large for a long time yet. I don't even begin training them until they are a year old--at least not in anything but loving and obeying me. But most of them learn that very quickly. You must look in this paddock for Silver Star, Miss Polly. Shall I call him?
human
Will he really come?
gpt
We used to have a much simpler fastening, but they learned how to undo it and make their escape. For that reason we are obliged to have these high fences. They have a strain of hunter blood and a six-foot barrier doesn't mean much to some of them.