human
Major Blossom, I presume?
gpt
My name,
human
I have received orders to report to you, sir.
gpt
Ah! bad business! bad business!
human
How, sir?
gpt
Atrocious business! dangerous service! Can't see why they sent me.
human
I came, Major, to inquire the nature of the service, so that I may have my men in order for it.
gpt
Dangerous service!
human
It is?
gpt
Infernal cut-throats! thousands of 'em in the bushes--bore a man through as soon as wink. Those yellow devils are worse than--!
human
Can't see why they picked _me_ out. There's Myers, and Wayne, and Wood, not half my size, and that thin scare-the-crows Allen; but no--the general wants _me_ killed. Die soon enough in this infernal nest of centipedes without being shot in the chaparral! I wish the chaparral was--!
gpt
and the