human
Pat, said Mike,
gpt
We'll have to be cuttin' one, and with a jackknife, too, for we've nothin' else. But I'll have to be goin' now. I was to be back by four, you know.
human
Then we'll call the mother out and show her the surprise now, said Mike.
gpt
I'll make short work of cuttin' that hole after you're gone.
human
Will you be steppin' out, mother dear?
gpt
You'll not be roastin' by the stove no more this summer,
human
Sure, 'tis a nice, airy kitchen, so it is, she said.
gpt
And as for the surprise, 'tis jist the koind of a wan your father was always thinkin' up. As you say, I'll not be roastin' no more. But it's awful warm you've made my heart, b'ys. It's a warm heart that's good to have summer and winter. And then she broke down.
human
Niver do you moind me, b'ys, she went on after a moment.
gpt
Well, Mrs. Brady, ma'am, we're done, reported Pat at a few minutes before four.
human
Mike, he'd got up and dug all the holes before day, and it didn't take us so long.
gpt
And is the stove out?
human
It is, ma'am. Mike will be cookin' out there this evenin'. Mike's gettin' to be the cook, ma'am. I show him all I learn here, and he soon has it better than I have myself.
gpt
Perhaps you had better go over again this evening, she said,
human
Do you mean it, ma'am?
gpt
Yes.
human
Thank you, kindly. I'd like to go, but I wasn't goin' to ask. My mother says askin's a bad habit. Them that has it is apt to ask more than they'd ought to many times.