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35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Provisional Council,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colonel Duncan Lyon, though he never held any military position; but his title clung to him, and even his brothers in New Hampshire always spoke of him as the"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will find the mansion of your late brother in perfect order, Mr. Lyon, said Colonel Cosgrove, as they rose from the dinner-table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was over there yesterday, and satisfied myself that every thing was in condition for your reception.... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far is it from this town to Barcreek?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifteen miles; and as the roads are not in the best condition at this season of the year, it will take about two hours and a half to make the trip, replied the lawyer."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have started Pink over to the place with all your baggage, Major Lyon, and I am ready to leave with the family when you say the word,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not a major, Mr. Bedford,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your brother was not exa... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will find at least thirty more of them when you get to Riverlawn."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which meant that his judgment and knowledge had ripened beyond his years. Without being a"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to see you!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to see you, mars'r! shouted a score of the tribe in unison."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad to see you, missus!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gib you welcome to Barcreek, mars'r and missus!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad to se... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Diana, Mrs. Lyon, the cook and housekeeper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Diana, missus, and not Dinah,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will always call you Diana, and never Dinah, replied Mrs. Lyon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help you take your things off, missus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We should like to go to our rooms, Diana, replied the lady."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose they are all ready for us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All ready, m... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit here, if you please, Levi, and always consider yourself as one of the family,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Major Lyon, replied he, as he took the place assigned to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I always sat at the table with Colonel Lyon, even when he had guests; but it isn't always the rule with planters to have the overseer at his table, and I am much o... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to be opened till five years from the date of my death. Duncan Lyon."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course you heard what your mother said about her visit to Titus's house to-day, Dexter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not well help hearing it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there is anything in this world I abominate, it is a family qua... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you up to, Deck?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing particular, replied the one on the bridge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Up the creek, answered Artie very indefinitely."
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you do, Titus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it is about time for me to have some talk with you, Noah, replied Titus, ignoring the offered hand, and bestowing a frowning look upon Deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send that boy away."... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have had an awful time since you called upon me this morning, said she, wiping her eyes with her handkerchief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know what we are coming to at our house. For the first time in my life my husband struck me after we got up from di... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you don't object, Deck, I would like to pull the forward oar,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is all the same to me which oar I take,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to talk with you, and I can do it better when you are in front of me,"
},
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder where Levi stands in the row that is brewing all over the country, said Deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't hear him say anything of any consequence, though he may have talked to father. He did not come from New England, and I don't know whether he ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That lifts the bow higher out of the water,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So much the better, replied Deck, proceeding to give philosophical and scientific reasons to explain what experienced boatmen know by instinct, as it were."
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now light your match, and start the fire, Artie. We shall lose no time by this arrangement, and we shall get back to the house before morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps, after you understand the nature of the enterprise, you will not be willing to go wit... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to be excited, Titus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have good reason to be excited, growled the angry man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My wife has acted like a fool and a traitor to me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorr... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder that you keep that fellow on the place, said Titus, as Levi rode off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In my opinion, and I have seen more of him than you have, Noah, he is a rascal;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think he is a very useful man,... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I take Levi as I find him, and I have been very much pleased with him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I did not come over here to talk about that dirty shote, continued Titus, suddenly bracing himself up to attack the subject of the grievances which had gnawed li... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I voted for Lincoln, and I believe in the Union,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; and there is five hundred men in this county that would like to drive you out of the State, and burn your house over your head! exclaimed Titus, becoming not a little excited."
},
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't meet all nor a tenth part of the people, and you don't know what is running in their heads, protested the Secessionist."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and your two boys keep on howling for the Union when the people round here are all dead set agin it. W... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a man has two brothers, and one of them goes back on him, is that any reason why the other should go back on him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sunday lingo,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Decidedly not, replied Noah very promptly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the contrary, he ought to stand by the brother if he has been wronged."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is just exactly what you have not done, Noah Lyon! exclaimed Titus, s... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll look the thing over again when I go home, for I want to be fair and right in everything I do, said Titus, after he had sought in vain for an argument with which he could upset the theory of Noah."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only claimed that you owed me hal... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think you are drunk, Brother Titus, as tipplers understand the word, but you are under the influence of liquor, and it affects your judgment,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you mean that I _am_ drunk!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THEN YOU... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, Levi?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't know but you might want me,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't want you for anything just now, Levi,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, you scoundrel, by stickin' your nose in where you're not wanted?"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate that villain!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he despises you as thoroughly as you hate him; so there is no love lost. But I think you had better conduct yourself a little more peaceably, Titus; for I do not like to have the people on the plantation see tha... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not to sell one of the niggers for five years! he exclaimed when he had finished it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is another outrage! And you are not to open that other letter for the same time. Give it to me, Noah, and I will open it now!"
},
{
"from"... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems that story about the arms and ammunition has no truth at all in it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So Titus says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meely was terribly excited about it, and said she ought not to have said a word about it. She begge... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where in the world have you been, boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have been exploring the creek, and we have been a good ways up, as far as the rocky hills,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you catch any fish?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While you are here, boys, I want to tell you that your Aunt Amelia has been at the house all the afternoon, said Mrs. Lyon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She came to take back that story she told me this morning in her own house about the arms and ammunition. She mi... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You never explained why you were out so late that night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wanted to look into the matter a little more before I said anything, for I didn't care to make a fool of myself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have a habit of... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could hear every word they said; and the man who was bossing the job, whatever it was, satisfied me that he was Uncle Titus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncle Titus!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not the least doubt of it; and more than this, I so... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The next load was brought by four men; and I could see by the way they handled it that it was very heavy. I stopped till they had brought down two more boxes, and then I thought it was time for me to be going. When the party had all left the shore I rowed along by the bushes tha... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Uncle Titus has been here this afternoon, and I have had a long talk with him on the bridge; but his first business here was to disclaim any knowledge of the arms and ammunition concealed on the river, said Mr. Lyon, before the boys had an opportunity to open with the story... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you laughing at, boys? interposed their father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is a serious matter as your uncle looks upon it; and I suppose such a rumor circulated about the county might get him and his sons into trouble. The Unionists regard the Home... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were the boxes all of the same kind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They were not the same, replied Deck, taking a paper from his pocket, on which he had written down a list of the cases."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lid of one of the two in which... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It almost breaks my heart to have my only living brother associated with, and even leading, these conspirators against the Union, Mr. Lyon resumed, as he wiped some tears from his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But when it comes to the defence of the old flag u... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, boys! I did not intend to make a scene like this; but the finding of the arms and ammunition convinces me that your Uncle Titus and his villanous associates mean to make war upon loyal men in this county. When you join the ranks of the Union army, you will find them all i... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am in doubt, Levi, and I have sent for you, Mr. Lyon began."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you are aware, I have never talked politics with you, and have not known to which party you belong."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't belong to any part... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am with you in this matter, Major Lyon, on its merits, though I like to be on your side; but these ruffians who are trying to make civil war in the State of Kentucky must be checked, he replied, when the planter had hurried through his statement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We may want the mast and sail, interposed Levi;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we have no boatman, and none of us know how to manage the sail, argued Deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would be a bad time to get upset, and we have no time to in... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and everything was as true, as high, as big, as handsome, as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Moses in de bulrushes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faraway had been a pet word with the one to whom the planter had given this name. They were all reliable se... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drop your oars!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ought to say 'let fall,' Mars'r Levi,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No talk, General. Now gather up, and pull away!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give way!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are fairly started, and this boat seems to be making at least five miles an hour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More than that, I should say, Major Lyon. I don't believe the hands can keep up this gait all the way; but we shall get to the sink about midnight,"
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop rowing, said Levi, when they came to a bend five miles above the bridge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now rest yourselves for five minutes, boys."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't need no rest, mars'r, said General, as he drew his arm over his... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, not one of you must speak a loud word, or make any noise, continued Levi, when he had seen that the oars were all properly muffled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must excuse me, Major, if I request all in this part of the boat to keep still also; for we are... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you may put your muscle into your oars, boys,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on, here, boys! called the overseer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have gone too far, for here is the mouth of the brook, and I reckon the flatboat is under that heap of stuff; and he pointed to a mound of branches by the shore of the inlet."
},
{
"f... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is about twenty feet to the opening, said Levi, as he measured the distance with his eye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The roof is not more than five feet high half the way; and, if their skulls are not harder than the limestone, General and Dummy will be likely... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Rosebud, and the rest of you, take hold of this rope, and when the word comes up to you from General, haul up the box which is made fast to the other end of it, continued Levi."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As soon as you get it up here, unhitch the line, and t... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Above there! called the overseer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now haul steady on the rope! Ease it out of the opening, General."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't take long to do the job at this rate, said Mr. Lyon when the overseer joined him."... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seceshers"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go 'way dar, niggers! exclaimed General, waving his hand for the others to get out of the way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cotch hold ob de end ob de shooter, Dummy, and we uns will tote it in de boat!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When your precious brother visits that cavern next time, he will be likely to wonder what has become of his arms and ammunition, said Levi, wiping the perspiration from his brow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, boys, go down into that hole again, and see that we ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you won't tip the sailboat over, Levi,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I do I shall not spill you out, either of you; for I want you to take charge of the flatboat, with two of the hands, replied the overseer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I s... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dexter, Artemas! shouted the planter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wake up! The cruise is ended."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are we stopping here for, father? Has anything broken?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing but your slumbers, my son, replied the planter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't you got your eyes open yet? Can't you see that you have got home?"
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, boys, you can sleep all the rest of the day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We haven't seen any men on the watch, said Levi, while he was placing some boards over the windows of the building,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they were in the road ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he called the gang with whom the Northern"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shavings was the most skilful of them, and was the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at any job to be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gouge and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bitts"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many horses are there on the place now, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thirty-five in all, Major,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they all fit for service?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, sir; six of them are breeding mares,... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we shall be in condition to stand a siege by to-morrow night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks so now, replied Mr. Lyon as he went into the building."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have made remarkable progress for one day. But I want... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to try this little persuader,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will improve with more experience, Major; but I reckon you could hit a bushwhacker if he wasn't more than ten feet from you; and these tools generally come into use at short range. How were you going up to Big Bend, Major?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose, if there should be any trouble at the schoolhouse, and I should be protected by my negroes, it would tend to aggravate the charge against me of being an abolitionist; and that seems to be about the worst thing that can be said against a man in this county."
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is generally understood about here that you called this Union meeting,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suggested it, for we ought to know who's who; and it remains to be seen how many will have the pluck to attend the meeting. Titus believes that a large majority... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I beg leave to inform those who are struggling to create a disturbance, that this is a Union meeting, called as such, and as such only, said the orator, shaking with indignation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was called for Union men only! It is a gathering of th... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has the time come when free speech in behalf of this glorious Union is to be put down? And then the ruffians howled again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Has it come to this in the State of Kentucky, the second to be admitted into the Union? and, with the help of God... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you go'n' to do about it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you a Union man?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I'm not!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you were not invited here, and you will leave!"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HE GRAPPLED WITH THE FELLOW."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do for the present,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think we had better station a guard at the door, and challenge every man who wants to come in,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a good idea, for it is the evident intention of the black... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you a Union man?"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pass in,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put the same question, Artie,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to the cause of the Union, with which to start a cavalry company; and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I can _find_ arms for the men,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will also contribute twenty horses,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you a Union man, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I am not!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you can't go in,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who says I can't?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a Union meeting... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And do you see that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take yourself off!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Isn't this a free building?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Free to Union men to-nigh... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three cheers for the boys!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No matter for them, said the chairman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us go on with this meeting, and when they come in, if they do so, we will take care of them. The boys will keep watch, and let us know if they approach the schoolhouse."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you a Union man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you can't go into this meeting,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no weapons, as you have, boys, and I have something to say to this meeting, said Titus, after he had meditated for two or three minutes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to go in; but I shall not stop there many minutes."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can't let you in, Uncle Titus, and we don't want to shoot you, interposed Artie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will call Colonel Cosgrove, and you can make your request to him;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I am going in,"
},
{
"from"... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Chairman, I have the honor to present Captain Titus Lyon of Barcreek to the meeting, said the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He claims to have something of importance to communicate. He is not a Union man, as is well known, but I trust no objection will ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Them arms and ammernition has been stole, continued Titus, waxing indignant in spite of his effort to keep cool, and relapsing into his everyday speech."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it was done by what you call Union men, and I cal'late I know jest who do... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Lyon, said Colonel Cosgrove, when the tumult had subsided in a measure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I haven't; I've said my say, and fire and blood is the next thing,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want Major Lyon and his two cubs!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want Major Lyon and his cubs! repeated Buck Lagger, in a voice loud enough to be heard all over the building."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't mean to meddle with nobody else, and all the rest o' you uns can go home without no trouble. Hand over Major Lyon ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, I am grateful for your support and promise of protection to me and my boys, said Noah Lyon, who had descended from the platform to the floor, where the boys had joined him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It appears from what the messenger of the ruffians ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been fooled! shouted Buck Lagger, as he started after the column."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is Major Lyon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is not here,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is he?"
},
{
"from": "h... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have come back safe and sound, Major,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the skin of our teeth we have,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you have had trouble over there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; some of the ruffians tried to... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't think Captain Titus would show himself in the meeting, said Levi, as they walked up to the fort."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That Buck Lagger is one of the biggest villains that goes unhung; and hanging would do him good. I should say that the ball had op... |
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