human
You have very pleasant rooms, Mrs. Norton,
gpt
Yes, we have as good as we can afford. Twenty dollars a month is a good deal for us to pay, but then we are comfortable, and that makes us work more cheerfully.
human
How do you like being a policeman, Mr. Norton?
gpt
I don't like it much, but it pays as well as anything I can get.
human
I sometimes feel anxious about him, said Mrs. Norton.
gpt
He is liable to be attacked by ruffians at any time. The day he came home with his face covered with blood, I was frightened then, I can tell you.
human
How did it happen?
gpt
I was called in to arrest a man who was beating his wife, said the policeman.
human
He was raging with drink at the time. He seized one of his wife's flatirons and threw it at me. It was a stunner. However, I managed to arrest him, and had the satisfaction of knowing that he would be kept in confinement for a few months. I have to deal with some tough customers. A policeman down in this part of the city has to take his life in his hand. He never knows when he's going to have a stormy time.
gpt
I wish my husband were in some other business,
human
There are plenty of men that would like my position, said her husband.
gpt
It's sure pay, and just as good in dull times as in good. Besides, some people think it's easy work, just walking around all day. They'd better try it.
human
There's one part Mr. Norton likes, said his wife slyly.
gpt
It's showing ladies across the street.
human
I don't know about that, rejoined the policeman.
gpt
It gets rather monotonous crossing the street continually, and there's some danger in it too. Poor Morgan was run over only three months ago, and injured so much that he's been obliged to leave the force. Then some of the ladies get frightened when they're halfway over, and make a scene. I remember one old woman, who let go my arm, and ran screaming in among the carriages, and it was a miracle that she didn't get run over. If she had clung to me, she'd have got over all right.
human
I don't think I'll be a policeman, said Sam.
gpt
I might have to take you up, Paul, and I shouldn't like to do that.
human
Paul isn't bad, said Jimmy, who was very apt to take a joke seriously, and who always resented any imputation upon his brother.
gpt
He never got took up in his life.
human
Then he wasn't found out, I suppose,
gpt
He never did anything bad,
human
Thank you, Jimmy, said Paul, laughing.
gpt
I'll come to you when I want a first-class recommendation. If I never did anything bad, I suppose you won't call that horse bad that I drew the other day.
human
It was a bad picture, said the little boy;
gpt
That's lucky, said Sam,
human
Where is it?