human
Graves! exclaimed he.
gpt
Why, what do you call them graves for, Billy? There isn't any thing buried in them.
human
Oh, nothin'! he said.
gpt
That's only a silly way o' puttin' it.
human
I don't think so, Billy, said Nelly.
gpt
I think it's real true. Don't you know, Rob, how awfully you and I felt when we thought we'd found that mine up in the Pass, and it turned out nothing but mica? We felt just as if we'd lost something.
human
I didn't, said Rob;
gpt
I just felt mad; and it makes me feel mad now to think of it: how we lugged those heavy old stones all that way. I wish I'd saved some for my museum though. All the boys here have museums, a man told me, and perhaps I won't find any of that kind of stone here.