human
Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Brooks; Major Kielmansegge--Captain Jack Brooks.
gpt
Pooh, pooh, Prevost, exclaimed the other.
human
Call me by my right name. I war Captain Brooks long agone. I'm new christened, and called Woodchuck now--that's because I burrow, major. Them Ingians are wonderful circumdiferous; but they have found that, when they try tricks with me, I can burrow under them; and so they call me Woodchuck, 'cause it's a burrowing sort of a beast.
gpt
I do not exactly understand you, replied the gentleman who had been called Major Kielmansegge;
human
It means just circumventing like, answered the Woodchuck.
gpt
First and foremost, there's many of the Ingians--the Aloquin, for a sample--that never tell a word of truth. No, no, not they. One of them told me so plainly, one day: 'Woodchuck,' says he, 'Ingian seldom tell truth; he know better than that. Truth too good a thing to be used every day: keep that for time of need.' I believe, at that precious moment, he spoke the truth, the first time for forty years.