human
Why now I take it you must be jesting at length exclaimed the Aid-de-Camp doubtingly, dropping at the same time the chair upon the floor, yet keeping it before him as though not quite safe in the presence of this self-confessed anthropophagos;
gpt
I rather calculate not Mister, sneered the settler.
human
Besides I don't eat the United States subjects; consequently they've no claim to interfere.
gpt
Who the devil do you eat then, asked Jackson, gathering courage with his curiosity, and advancing a pace or two nearer the fire,
human
I reckon that's no hum, he said, producing and throwing upon the table a piece of dark dry flesh, that resembled in appearance the upper part of a human arm.
gpt
If you're fond of a relish, he pursued with a fierce laugh;
human
Why you don't really mean to say that's part of a man? demanded Jackson, advancing cautiously to the table, and turning over the shrivelled mass with the point of his dagger.
gpt
Why, I declare, its just the color of my dried beef.
human
But I do though--and what's more, of my own killin' and dryin'. Purty naturist you must be not to see that's off an Ingin's arm.
gpt
Oh an Ingin's only, is it? returned the Aid-de-Camp, whose apprehension began rapidly to subside, now that he had obtained the conviction that it was not the flesh of a white man.
human
Well, I'm sure! who'd have thought it. I take it, old cock, you've been in the wars as well as myself.
gpt
A little or so I reckon, and I expect to be in them agin shortly--as soon as my stock of food's out. I've only a thigh bone to pick after this, and then I'm off. But why don't you take your seat at the fire. There's nothin' so out of the way in the sight of a naked arm, is there? I reckon if you're a soger, you must have seen many a one lopped off in the wars.
human
Yes, friend, said Jackson, altering the position of the table and placing it between the settler and himself;
gpt
Jist so, and go without my own supper I suppose, to please you. But tarnation, while you're eatin' a bit of your hung beef I'll try a snack of mine.