human
Captain Price!
gpt
So long as our affectionate children have suggested it!
human
Suggested--what?
gpt
Let's give 'em something to cry about!
human
Alfred!
gpt
Look here: we are two old fools; so they say, anyway. Let's live up to their opinion. I'll get a house for Cyrus and Gussie--and your girl can live with 'em, if she wants to!
human
She could live here,
gpt
What do you say?
human
Do you want to leave Old Chester?
gpt
You know I don't,
human
She'd take you away to-morrow, he threatened,
gpt
She sha'n't know it.
human
Well, then, we've got to get spliced to-morrow.
gpt
Oh, Alfred, no! I don't believe Dr. Lavendar would--
human
I'll have no dealings with Lavendar, the Captain said, with sudden stiffness;
gpt
Oh, no, no!
human
Cyrus and Gussie can go and live by themselves, said the Captain, joyously,
gpt
And I'll make a cake! And I'll take care of your clothes; you really are dreadfully shabby ; she turned him round to the light, and brushed off some ashes. The Captain beamed.
human
Poor Alfred! and there's a button gone! that daughter-in-law of yours can't sew any more than a cat (and she _is_ a cat!). But I love to mend. Mary has saved me all that. She's such a good daughter--poor Mary. But she's unmarried, poor child.
gpt
Daniel, the man in that vehicle is either blind and deaf, or else he has something on his conscience; in either case he won't mind our dust, so we'll cut in ahead at the watering-trough. G'on, Goliath!
human
Now, look here, Dr. Lavendar remonstrated,
gpt
But Goliath plunged his nose down into the cool depths of the great iron caldron, into which, from a hollow log, ran a musical drip of water. Dr. Lavendar and Danny, awaiting his pleasure, could hear a murmur of voices from the depths of the eccentric vehicle which put up a hood on such a day; when suddenly Dr. Lavendar's eye fell on the hind legs of the other horse.
human
That's Cipher's trotter, he said to himself, and leaning out, cried:
gpt
Hi! Cy?
human
Where! Where's Cyrus? Then he caught sight of Dr. Lavendar.
gpt
Look out!
human
I am somewhat hurried,