human
You are only a lad, John Drogue, but I bear witness that you display the patience and good temper of a grown man. For if Charlie Cady, here, had picked on me as he has on you, he sure had tasted my rifle-butt before now!
gpt
Neighbors must bear with one another in such times, said I,
human
Damn you! shouts Cady at a halt,
gpt
I shall not stir a step more to be insulted. I shall not budge one inch, bell or no bell, call or no call!----
human
A pair of real tree-cats, old Tom and little Kit! I'm in half a mind to turn them back!
gpt
They but answer their nature, which is to nose about and smell out what's a-frying, growled Putman.
human
Shall we turn them back and be done with them? It will mean civil war in Fonda's Bush.
gpt
Watched hens never lay, said I.
human
Let them come with us. While they remain under our eyes the stale old plan they brood will addle like a cluck-egg.
gpt
So that I can see my enemy, growled he,
human
I have no care concerning him. But let him out o' sight and I fret like a chained beagle.