human
Do you think the captain brought me up here for my pleasure? he said.
gpt
I have to stay by the boat while he's on shore, to see that the men don't run away. Why, if I didn't keep my eye on them, they'd be off like shots, and drunk as fiddlers by the time the captain came back.
human
I'm sorry you can't come, I said.
gpt
By the bye, talking of fiddlers, will you mind taking a fiddle on board to the boy who came with me,-- Larry Harrigan? I promised to send it to him, though I didn't expect so soon to have the opportunity.
human
With the greatest pleasure in the world, said Tom Pim.
gpt
Perhaps I may take a scrape on it myself. When I was a little fellow, I learned to play it.
human
You must have been a very little fellow,