human
I thought the Germans must have brought the knowledge to the country, she said.
gpt
How long have you known it?
human
Oh, since my boyhood, and he gave a smile.
gpt
I heard a very old man say once that Noah set his sons to work in the Ark making fishing-nets. Perhaps Mrs. Noah set her daughter-in-laws to crocheting, as you call it. Forty days was a pretty long spell of rainy weather, when they had no books or papers to read, and couldn't go out to work in the garden.
human
Didn't they have any books?
gpt
All their writing was done on stone tablets, and very little of that.
human
I think I wouldn't have liked living then. Books are so splendid. And you get to know about so many people. But there was the Bible,
gpt
Still, if Moses wrote the first books, that was a long while after the Flood.