human
What are salmon?
gpt
Fish, you eft, great fish, nice fish to eat. They are the lords of the fish, and we are lords of the salmon; and she laughed again.
human
We hunt them up and down the pools, and drive them up into a corner, the silly things; they are so proud, and bully the little trout, and the minnows, till they see us coming, and then they are so meek all at once; and we catch them, but we disdain to eat them all; we just bite off their soft throats and suck their sweet juice--Oh, so good! --(and she licked her wicked lips)--
gpt
And where do they come from?
human
Out of the sea, eft, the great, wide sea, where they might stay and be safe if they liked. [Footnote: Salmon live in the sea, as the otter says, but each autumn they go up the rivers to spawn.] But out of the sea the silly things come, into the great river down below, and we come up to watch for them; and when they go down again, we go down and follow them. And there we fish for the bass and the pollock, and have jolly days along the shore, and toss and roll in the breakers, and sleep snug in the warm dry crags. Ah, that is a merry life, too, children, if it were not for those horrid men.
gpt
What are men?
human
Two-legged things, eft; and, now I come to look at you, they are actually something like you, if you had not a tail (she was determined that Tom should have a tail),