human
What are they doing now?
gpt
They are mostly asleep, on the Place. It is all over hillocks of rags.
human
In the rain?
gpt
So it seems; it does not wet that sort.
human
They must be hungry.
gpt
Not at all. They have each his or her bottle of drink; besides, they roasted and ate our comrade's horse that they shot by the light of their bonfire. It was looking on at a cannibal's feast to see them dancing round it, men and women.
human
More so had it been an ass's carcase, perhaps.
gpt
Say a wolf's. If there is a breed of human wolves, I have had it proved to me to-night. The difference between these and the kind in the Menagerie is that it is we who are within the bars.
human
You need not offer the breed as a novelty; I saw plenty of them at Eaux Tranquilles.