human
Come, Jacob, let us adjourn to my sanctum; there may we commune without interruption. Thou shalt tell me thine adventures, and I will communicate to thee what hath been made known to me relative to those with whom thou wert acquainted.
gpt
First let me beg you to give me something to eat, for I am not a little hungry,
human
Verily shalt thou have all that we possess, Jacob; yet now, I think, that will not be much, seeing that I and our worthy matron did pick the bones of a shoulder of mutton, this having been our fourth day of repast upon it. She is out, yet I will venture to intrude into the privacy of her cupboard, for thy sake. Peradventure she may be wroth, yet will I risk her displeasure. So saying, the old Dominie opened the cupboard, and, one by one, handed to me the dishes with their contents.
gpt
Here Jacob are two hard dumplings from yesterday. Canst thou relish cold, hard, dumplings?--but, stop, here is something more savoury--half of a cold cabbage, which was left this day. We will look again. Here is meat--yes, it is meat; but now do I perceive it is a piece of lights reserved for the dinner of the cat to-morrow. I am fearful that we must not venture upon that, for the dame will be wroth.
human
Pray put it back, sir; I would not interfere with puss on any account.
gpt
Nay, then, Jacob, I see naught else, unless there may be viands on the upper shelf. Sir, here is bread, the staff of life, and also a fragment of cheese; and now, methinks, I discern something dark at the back of the shelf.