human
I'd advise you, mom, to soak your feet and go to bed.
gpt
What tempted you, Josiah Allen, to make a perfect fool of yourself--a show for hollow worldlings to sneer at!
human
Fool! sez he in bitter axents,
gpt
sez he bitterly,
human
Do you pretend to say, Josiah, that you did this to please me?
gpt
Yes mom, I do! I did it to please you, and to take that woman's part. You hearn her say she wanted to dance, but no man wuz forthcomin'.
human
Dance! sez I,
gpt
She hain't much more'n eighty, sez he,
human
I don't believe. But anyway, you won't git me into such a scrape agin. Your sect may be trod on for all that I care. They may set round till they grow to their chairs and be trompled down into the ground--and I jest as soon tromple on a few myself,