human
Now we want an axe,
gpt
There's a queer fellow below with an axe, volunteered one of those who had come up by the lower deck.
human
Here he comes.
gpt
Here you are! Roll it away--roll that away now, rolled the bale over himself so that it fell apart as in compressed cakes or slices.
human
Well, if you won't roll, carry away, carry away, he went on, hitting the next bale; and, dodging his axe, the
gpt
Push gathered armfuls and hastened off to shake and to tease out these armfuls into the strong pens ranged all round the ship's sides and down the ship's centre, ranged so closely that if two men passed abreast they had need to be slender men. Hardly had they finished coming and going on this employment than the ki-yi-ing of men's voices, and the lowing of beasts caused the bedders-down to pause and give ear. The man who had broken open the bales suddenly appeared again, screaming oaths.
human
Come along here, and tie up!