human
concluded Cap'n Amazon.
gpt
Helped make the owners rich, and the Old Man, too. Course, I got my sheer; but a boy's sheer on a whaler them days wouldn't buy him no house and lot. So I went to sea again.
human
You must have been at sea almost all your life, Cap'n Amazon.
gpt
Pretty nigh. I ain't never lazed around on shore when there was a berth in a seaworthy craft to be had for the askin'. I let Abe do that,
human
Why, I don't believe Uncle Abram has a lazy bone in his body! See the nice business he has built up here. And he told me he owned shares in several vessels and other property.
gpt
That's true, Cap'n Amazon agreed promptly.
human
And a tidy sum in the Paulmouth National Bank. I got a letter to the bank folks he left to introduce me, if I needed cash. Yes, Abe's done well enough that way. But he's the first Silt, I swanny! that ever stayed ashore.
gpt
And now you are going to remain ashore yourself,
human
I'm going to try it, Louise. I've done my sheer of roaming about. Mebbe I'll settle down here for good.
gpt
With Cap'n Abe? Won't that be fine?
human
Yep. With Abe,