human
That was a cracking good shot, Bently, he said.
gpt
He never knew what stopped him.
human
I wouldn't have been the one to take that dog's life for anything in the world! he exclaimed.
gpt
I'd pretty near as soon have killed a man. It never entered my head that any tame animal would come leaping out of the woods that way at this time of night. He loomed up nearly as big as a lion when the moon shone out on him. The next minute it was all dark again, and I heard his big soft feet come pattering through the leaves, straight on toward me. It flashed over me that it must be one of those escaped circus animals, so I just let loose and blazed away at him.
human
It's too bad, he said.
gpt
He was a grand old dog, the finest St. Bernard I ever saw. How that little girl loved him! It will just about break her heart when she finds out what's happened to him.
human
Don't! begged the sentry, huskily.
gpt
Don't say anything like that. I feel bad enough about it now, goodness knows, without your harrowing up my feelings, talking of the way _she's_ going to feel.
human
For heaven's sake, Mac, don't leave him lying there on the picket-line where I've got to see him every time I pass. Send somebody to take him away. I'm all unnerved. I feel as if I'd shot one of my own comrades.