human
Some important, I takes it, buddy?
gpt
Very, if we happen to be lucky enough to get close to the hideout of the gang. This little scrap of paper has a history, Perk. It was carried from the mountains where this crowd hold out, to Los Angeles by a feathered post.
human
I doan't jest get yeou, partner--what's a feathered post--I never yet seen anything like that--yeou got me sunk, Jack, boy.
gpt
You know what a carrier pigeon is, of course, Perk--well, one of the two agents who were sent out on this case several months ago conceived the bright idea of carrying a bird with him. Just as he feared might be the case they were eventually discovered, and brought to bay in a rocky canyon--the men wolves had them bottled up, so they must either surrender and take the consequences, or perish of hunger and thirst. He wrote this message in code on this thin tissue paper, fastened it under the wing of his bird, and tossed the pigeon up in the air. It may have been fired at, but since it showed up at its home cote in Angeles it escaped being killed, or even crippled.
human
Great work that, partner, snapped the intensely interested Perk;
gpt
I shore takes off my hat to the lad who could think up sech a neat dodge. An' right there clost to the tigers' den he could set daown an' write a 'portant message in code, so's to send off his little birdie. That's a new trick on me, I own up--a stunt worth while.