human
Now, Daddy, cried Peggy happily when luncheon ended,
gpt
A stable and a paddock for an old salt like me, laughed her father.
human
I wonder if I shall know a horse's hock from his withers? Yet it DOES seem good to see them, and smell the grass and woods and know it's all mine and that YOU are mine, he cried, slipping his arm through hers and pacing off with her.
gpt
Some day, he added,
human
I am coming here to settle down with you to enjoy it all, and when I do I mean to let four legs carry me whenever there is the least excuse for so doing. My own have done enough pacing of the quarter-deck to have earned that indulgence.
gpt
And won't it be just--paradise,
human
Massa Captain,
gpt
Good Lord, where DO they all come from, Peggy? Have they all been born since my last visit? There were not so many here then.
human
Not quite all, answered Peggy laughing.
gpt
Most of them were here before that, though there are some new arrivals either in the course of nature or new help. You see the business is growing, Daddy, and I've had to take on new hands.
human
Yes, yes--I dare say,
gpt
I want you to see THIS family. It is Joshua Jozadak Jubal Jones'. They might all be of an age, but they are not--quite. Come here, boys, and see Master Captain,