human
On our way, sez I,
gpt
And well worth it! sez he,
human
I know it, Josiah; you've acted luny about it. And if jest hearin' about it harrers your nerve so, what would seein' it do?
gpt
My nerve ain't harrered,
human
Can you deny I have had to give you quarts of catnip after you have had a seancy with Serenus about that frivolous spot, full of hilarity and temptation?
gpt
Because you have drownded out my insides with catnip, it hain't no sign I needed it. And I tell you, Samantha Allen, you may demean that grand glorious place all you're a minter; I shall see it ere long. It is the shinin' gole I have rared up in front of me and I'm bound to set on it.
human
If you hain't got any nobler gole than that ahead on you I pity you from the bottom of my heart. And to kinder skair him I sez agin,
gpt
Do you, a Christian deacon, want to act frisky and go pleasure-huntin' at your age?
human
Why, sez he,
gpt
Serenus sez it is the most entrancin'ly beautiful and fascinatin' spot on earth. He sez, and can prove, it is the biggest playground in the hull world, to say nothin' of what you can learn there, and folks come from foreign countries jest to see it. Their first question when they land is, 'Where is Coney Island? Lead me to it!'
human
Oh shaw!
gpt
Well, it is so, and why should such droves of folks go there if it hain't worth it? Serenus sez and can prove, that a million folks go there in one day sometimes, and hundreds of thousands most every day.
human
Do you remember the him, 'Broad is the road that leads,' you know where. 'And thousands walk together there.' Do you want to walk with 'em, Josiah?
gpt
Yes, I do, and lay out to.