human
You like it: don't you, Nelly?
gpt
Yes, indeed! said Nelly:
human
I think it's fun. And the people are all so kind: that Swede woman kissed me because I look so much like her little girl. I am going there again to-day. They keep boarders, you know; and she wants eggs every time I come, she said. I thought perhaps they'd take Rob's trout too.
gpt
Oh, no! they won't, said Lucinda.
human
Trout is too dear eatin' for such boarders 's they keep. You take the trout right up to Miss Clapp's. She'll take 'em all, an' as many more 's you can ketch.
gpt
Lucinda! Lucinda! we've sold every thing; and we've got five dollars and seventy-five cents! Now what do you say? Won't mamma be glad? Couldn't anybody get very rich this way, if they only kept on? Isn't it splendid?
human
You dear little innocent lambs, said Lucinda:
gpt
Why, we are poor now; very, very poor: papa said so, interrupted Nelly.
human
That's the reason he lets us sell things.
gpt
Oh, well! your pa don't know nothin' about bein' real poor, said Lucinda:
human
Yes; papa said we were a real help, said Nelly:
gpt
Luce, exclaimed Rob,
human
Oh! not so nice as Mrs. Clapp, Rob,
gpt
Yes, they are too; lots nicer. They don't speak so fine and mincing: but I like them lots better; they're some fun. And Luce, he continued,
human
It makes her cry, though, said Nelly.
gpt
I wish she wouldn't.
human
But what is this Jan is going to make you? asked Lucinda:
gpt
Why not? said Nelly:
human
Well, you know how the ox-yoke looks on old Starbuckle and Jim, said Rob.
gpt
It's a good deal like that: I saw one in the picture-book.
human
But we're not going to be yoked together, said Nelly.
gpt
It can't look like that.
human
No, no, said Lucinda,
gpt
Then I shall wear it, no matter how it looks,
human
We needn't wear them in the streets, said Rob:
gpt
Now, Rob, exclaimed Nelly,
human
I'd be ashamed to do that! That would look as if we were too proud to be seen in them. I shall wear mine into all the houses.
gpt
Wait till you see how it feels, Nelly, said Lucinda.
human
Perhaps you won't like it so well's you think.