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15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me lead you, Cousin Morris,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used to lead you, Katy, Morris said, as he took his seat by the window,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My eyes are getting better, he said to her one day toward the latter part of August, when she came as usual to his room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew last night that Mrs. Hull's dress was blue, and I saw the sun shine through the shutters. Soon, very soon, I... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not need me as much as you did, she said to him one morning in September, when he complained of his loneliness, and told how he had waited for her the previous day until night shut down, and he knew she would not come."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can se... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sometimes think I need you more than I did then, and if you must stay away now, I am ungrateful enough to wish you had not come at all, Morris replied, and Katy's cheeks burned crimson as she felt that the dim eyes, seen through the green shades, were trying to study her as th... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot lose her now, was the thought constantly in Morris' mind, as he experienced more and more how desolate were the days which did not bring her to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is twenty months, just, since Wilford died; and George Washington asked Mar... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The rain won't hurt you an atom, she said, as Katy began to demur and glance at the lowering sky."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can wear your waterproof boots and my shaker, if you like, and I do so want Morris to have them to-night."
},
{
"from": "human... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm bound to fetch that 'round. It's a shame for two young folks, just fitted to each other, to live apart when they might be so happy, with Hannah, and Lucy, and me, close by, to see to 'em, and allus make their soap, and see to the butcherin', besides savin' peneryle and catni... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been so lonely, with no company but the rain,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ought not to stay. It is not proper, and my cap at home, too,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we have some thin slices of cold chicken to go with the jelly?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can go now, Reekie, Morris said, when the boiling water was poured into the silver kettle, and tea was on the table."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Katy, you can't go yet till I have said what's in my mind to say,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will Katy come? Will she be the wife of Cousin Morris?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It cannot be--oh, Morris, it cannot be, she sobbed, when he pressed her for answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't ask me why--don't ever mention it again, for I tell you it cannot be. My answer is final; it cannot be. I am sorry for you, so sorry. I wish you h... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What has become of your umberell? Your silk one, too. It's hopeful you haven't lost it. What has happened you? and coming closer to Katy, Aunt Betsy looked searchingly in her face. It was not so dark that she could not see the traces of recent tears, and instinctively suspecting... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I met Catherine, Aunt Betsy began,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not lived sixty-odd years for nothing, and I know the signs pretty well. I've been through the mill myself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's Joel Upham--you know Joel--keeps a tin shop now, and seats the folks in meetin'. He asked me once for my company,... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just the way I felt when I heard about Joel and Patty,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you of the same mind still?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; why shouldn't I be? Katy replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You better than any one else knew what passed between Wilford and me concerning Morris, and you can--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you love Morris?"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "More than I wish I did, seeing I must always tell him no. It's strange, too, how the love for him keeps coming in spite of all I can do. I have not been there since, nor spoken with him until last Sunday, but though I did not know he was coming, I knew the moment he entered the ... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He would catch his death of cold,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so you told me a falsehood the other day, and your conscience has troubled you ever since?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, Morris, and Katy dropped her stitch as she replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; that is, I told you I was sorry th... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be you two engaged?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are, was Katy's frank reply, which brought back all Aunt Betsy's visions of roasted fowls and frosted cake, and maybe a dance in the kitchen, to say nothing of the feather bed which she had not dared to offer Katy... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lieutenant Robert Reynolds and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thomas Tubbs, Helen read among the list of those just arrived at Annapolis, but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Mark Ray"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was preposterous to suppose Bob would expect it,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Copperhead principles,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it isn't for you to say whether he shall or shall not have Bell. She is of age. Let her speak for herself."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would marry Lieutenant Reynolds if he had only his ears left to hear me tell him how much I love and honor him! Arthur Grey! Don't talk to me of him! the craven coward, who will neither volunteer nor give a cent for our poor, suffering soldiers, but turns people off with: 'Gov... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Bob! how much he must have suffered,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My darling Bell, my promised wife, you don't know how much good this meeting does me!"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad--oh, so glad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not care for myself, Robert. Don't think I cared for myself, or was ever sorry a bit on my own account."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never were sorry and never cared! I can scarcely credi... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit here in the hall a moment, she said to him, as the servant admitted them both."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must see Mrs. Ray first."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Robert is at home; I have just come from there, and he told me--oh! Helen, can you bear it?--Mark is dead--shot twice as he jumped from the train taking him to another prison, Robert saw it, and knew that he was dead."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He cut it from his head just before we left the prison, and told me if he never got home and I did, to give the lock to you, and say that all was well between him and God--that your prayers had saved him. He wanted you to know that, because, he said, it would comfort you most of... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not plated-ware, but the gen-oo-ine article,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aunt Betsy complacently reflected as she contemplated the glittering array, end then hurried off to see what was burning on the stove, or"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Morris, it's you. I'm so glad you've come, for I wanted--"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, I know, but so much kissin' as I've seen the last fortni't is enough to turn a body's stomach. I guess old bachelders and widders is commonly wus than fresh hands at it."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes I think it wrong to be so happy when Helen is so sad. I pity her so much to-day."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if that heralded Mark's return, how happy I should be."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lovers' Rock,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God help me not to begrudge the price or think I paid too dearly for my country's rights. Oh, Mark, my murdered husband, I may be wrong, but you were dearer to me than many, many countries, and it is hard to give you up--hard to know that the notes of peace which even now float ... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us thank God together. You, too, have learned to pray."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor, darling Mark! that's where the cruel ball entered; but where is the other scar--the one made by the man who went to you in the fields, and who also fired, they said. I have tried so hard to hate him for firing at a fallen foe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rat... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play 'possum, Yank. Make b'lieve you're dead, and throw them hellhounds off the scent."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For three weeks longer I stayed up in that loft, and in that time three more escaped prisoners were brought there, and one Union refugee from North Carolina. We left in company one wild, rainy night, when the storm and darkness must have been sent for our special protection, and... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No words of mine, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Had a dead body risen from its grave, and walked into the farmhouse, carrying its coffin with it, it could not have created greater consternation, or made worse havoc with the people's wits than did my sudden ... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it hurts some, but nothin' to what the poor soldiers is hurt; and I wouldn't mind it an atom if I hadn't broke the dish with the heathenish name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "so confidently expected. The substantials were for the neighbors--those who would hav... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ain't Morris ever goin' home? He won't be dressed in time, as sure as the world, if he stays here much longer,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in here, Helen, I have something to show you,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I made the most of my time last night after receiving Mark's telegram, and had it modernized somewhat, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I brought your pearls, for you know you will be most as much a bride as Katy, and I have a pride in seeing my son's wif... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no, not sorry that I am to be your wife, she answered;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are waiting for you,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ephraim would not care an atom, a remark which brought from Mrs. Deacon Bannister a most withering look of reproach, and slightly endangered Aunt Betsy's standing in the church. Perhaps Bell Cameron suspected as much, for she replied that they were having a splendid time as it w... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are home at last--your home and mine, my precious, precious wife."
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it would not be quite pleasant for Katy to visit me there, and I mean to have her with me as much as possible, so the house went to strangers, and a less pretentious, but quite as comfortable, one was bought for Bell, so far uptown that Mrs. Cameron pronounced it quite in th... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and whose capeless shaker hangs often on the hall stand, just as it hangs now, while she, good soul, sits in the pleasant parlor, near the blazing fire, and darns the socks for Morris, taking as much pains as if it were a network of fine lace she was weaving, instead of a shocki... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Bob Reynolds,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was never so happy in my life as I am now, she wrote."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, I did not know that a married woman could be so happy; but then every woman has not a Bob for her husband, w... |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MARIAN HAZELTON."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truly, He doeth all things well to those who wait upon Him,"
}
] |
15607 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We stopped at Annapolis on our way here, and I shall never forget the pale, worn faces, or the great, sunken eyes which looked at me so wistfully as I went from cot to cot, speaking words of cheer to the sufferers, some of whom were Mark's companions in prison, their dim eyes li... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Practical Taxidermy"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The extraction of the brain by the nostrils is proved by the appearance of the mummies found in the tombs; and some of the crooked instruments (always of bronze) supposed to have been used fo... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On exposure to air they (the mummies) become covered with efflorescence of sulphate of soda, and also readily absorb moisture from the atmosphere."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Having styptic, absorbent, and balsamic qualities, would produce a kind of tanning operation on the body, which would also, no doubt, be heightened by the washing with palm wine."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The natron would be used just as it was got from many of the lakes of Egypt, where it is found abundantly in the form of carbonate of soda."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Materia Medica,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This salt was probably known to the... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il parait que ce natrum était un alkali fixe, et pas du tout du nitre comme quelques auteurs l'ont pensé; ce qui semblerait appuyer cette opinion, c'est que lea femmes egyptiennes se servaient de natrum pour faire leur lessive, comme on as sert aujourd'hui de la soude."
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I think of it, natron is perfectly familiar to me as apparently a mixture of broken soda crystals and a brown earth which is sold in the bazaars of India, under the name of 'sootjee moogee,' for domestic purposes; and I know, from experience, that unless it is washed off pai... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.--Several weeks ago we mentioned the departure of Mr. Arthur Robottom, Birmingham, England, on a search for borax in the southern part of California. He has now returned, bringing news of an interesting and valuable discovery. Beyond the Sierra Nevada, i... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Encyclopaedia Britannica merely mentions it as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "while Boitard boldly says,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In an old work which I have, 'A General Collection of Voyages,' I find the following relating to the 'Guanches' in vol. i, book ii, chap. i, page 184, 'The Voyage of Juan Rejon to the Canary Islands, AD. 1491': 'When any person died, they preserved the body in this manner: First... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A work appeared at Lyons in 1758, entitled 'Instructions on the Manner of Collecting and Preparing the Different Curiosities of Natural History.' [Footnote: The sixth edition, twenty-three years later, has this title,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taxidermy, or the ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Treatise on the Manner of Stuffing and Preserving Animals and Skins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Livraison de l'Encyclopédie, Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Encyclopédie Méthodique,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wanderings in South America"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catalogues"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reinecke the Fox,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "work of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "who, as Boswell said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lion and Tiger Struggle,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack Smith"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ducks are caught by rather a clever arrangement with horsehair nooses attached to a string, which is stretched over the ditches and canals used for irrigation, and so close to the water that the ducks are compelled when swimming under the string to stretch out their necks, when ... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One method is simplicity itself: a hair noose is fastened to a lump of clay well worked together; a number of these appliances are scattered about the lucerne fields, which the quails are fond of frequenting; the bird caught in the noose is prevented from flying away owing to th... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds of Great Britain"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "arrive. If the morning be foggy, it is a good day for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; if bright, bad"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stonehenge"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It used to be the constant practice on all the hill downs in these parts to place out underwood or furze, about a foot in height, to a very great extent along the ground, in the shape of a letter V, at the apex of which an op... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SPRINGE,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Springe"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Figure of 4 trap, are easy to make, and useful for killing small animals. The materials required are simply three ordinary pieces of wood, a small piece of string, or, better still, wire, and a large, heavy, flat paving stone, or slate. Having procured three pieces of wood of ha... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FIGURE of 4"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stonehenge and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High Elms"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High Elms"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High Elms"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for taking capercailzie in Norway is described by Mr. Yarnell in his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "British Birds"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the trees grow thickly on either side of a footpath, two long pieces of wood are placed across it; one... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it as correct, only adding that the oil takes somewhere about four hours to slowly boil before it becomes sufficiently tenacious for use. Holly-bark he does not believe in, as he says it takes too long to make; but that is no reason why we should pass over bird-lime made from th... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wildfowler:"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the London and provincial bird-catchers. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birds are also taken with nets during the day, and especially in those seasons of the year when they change their situa... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When doctors differ, who shall decide?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for he always set his cages as near the nets as possible;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "quoth he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which is a bird braced by a peculiar knot... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play-stick"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FLUR OR"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "PLAY-STICK."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play-bird is always placed on the left hand of the birdcatcher, about two yards into the net. Sometimes more than one play-stick and bird are used; all are, however, playe... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rural Sports,"
}
] |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The proceedings connected with the use of glade nets appear to be very simple. These nets are of lengths and breadths proportioned to the places in which they are suspended. They are simply pieces of fine thread netting, edged with cords adapted to the extent of the lint. The gl... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arctic Zoology, page 29. The same system is still adopted on many parts of the coast. In fact, I recollect (when some years ago I visited the Isle of Wight on a collecting expedition) seeing two men with r... |
26014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or tooth trap, used for capturing rats or other animals and birds, no description is, I think necessary, further than to say that the springs should be highly tempered, and that the teeth should not be too long. These traps can be set in various places with or without baits--in ... |
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