human
I see something they have got in there. It is like a bear on end--you know--when it is dancing.
gpt
Try again, Rhoda Polly. Try the night-glass!
human
I can do better without it, Jack Jaikes--yes, I see better now--it is like a big boiler for washing clothes or boiling pig's-meat with the mouth tilted towards us. It looks as if it were mounted on a kind of cradle!
gpt
A mortar--I never thought of that--they have got a mortar. They were clearing a way for using it--at short range too. They can plug us anywhere now.