human
Go down and ask Mrs. Smithers for the clothes-line,
gpt
I won't,
human
You had better go yourself, Mrs. Carr, suggested Mrs. Holmes.
gpt
Willie is tired. He has played hard all day and needs rest. He must not on any account over-exert himself, and, besides, I never allow any one else to send my children on errands. They obey me and me alone.
human
Go yourself,
gpt
I'll go, wheezed Uncle Israel.
human
I can't sleep in no other bed. Ebeneezer's beds is all terrible drafty, and I took two colds at once sleepin' in one of 'em when I knowed better 'n to try it.
gpt
Was it not clever of Willie? whispered Mrs. Holmes, admiringly, to Dorothy.
human
So much ingenuity--such a fine sense of humor!
gpt
If he were my child, snapped Dorothy, at last losing her admirable control of a tempestuous temper,
human
I do not doubt it, replied Mrs. Holmes, contemptuously.
gpt
These married old maids, who have no children of their own, are always wholly out of sympathy with a child's nature.
human
When I was young, retorted Mrs. Carr,
gpt
And yet, Mrs. Holmes continued, meditatively,