human
I didn't suppose you'd want me round the house when you were getting things to rights; men are always in the way; so I told Fred Bascom I'd go home with him.
gpt
Home with Fred! Our only man! Sole prop of the House of Carey! exclaimed his mother with consummate tact.
human
Why, Gilly dear, I shall want your advice every hour! And who will know about the planting,--for we are only 'women folks'; and who will do all the hammering and carpenter work? You are so wonderful with tools that you'll be worth all the rest of us put together!
gpt
Oh, well, if you need me so much as that I'll go along, of course, said Gilbert,
human
remarked Mrs. Carey,
gpt
Now, mother, you've never seen Fred Bascom more than half a dozen times!
human
No; and I don't remember at all what I saw in him the last five of them, for I found out everything needful the first time he came to visit us! returned Mrs. Carey quietly.
gpt
Still, he's a likable, agreeable sort of boy.
human
And no doubt he'll succeed in destroying the pig in him before he grows up, said Nancy, passing through the room.
gpt
I thought it gobbled and snuffled a good deal when we last met!