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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm goin' to pray Frisky will come back, Nan told her little brother when she kissed him good-night," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, Nannie, do ask Him, pleaded Freddie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord bless the little darling!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seems as if something else ought to happen to-night, Bert remarked to Harry as they prepared to retire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This was such a full day, wasn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's early yet, Harry answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sounds so strange to hear--those--those--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crickets, Harry told him," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello there! All asleep! Wake up, somebody!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come down here, Mr. Bobbsey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, is that you, Peter? I'll be down directly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I declare! Uncle Daniel exclaimed, loud enough for all the listeners at the windows to hear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you've got her? Well, I'm very glad indeed. Especially on the boys' account." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, spoke out Peter Burns," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I went in the barn a while ago with the lantern, and there wasn't your calf asleep with mine as cozy as could be. I brought her over to-night for fear you might miss her and get to lookin', otherwise I wouldn't have disturbed you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lord did bring her back, Freddie told his mamma as she kissed him good-night again and put him in his bed, happier this time than before." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I promised to be awful good to pay Him for His trouble," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it, my dear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Somebody is playing the piano, answered the little girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody is playing. You must be dreaming," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am sure I heard the piano," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were surely dreaming, said Mrs. Bobbsey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, I will tuck you in again," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me go out and see Frisky, Freddie insisted, even before his breakfast had been served." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to be sure it's her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that's her, Freddie admitted," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, sonny, called Dinah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can help me pick de radishes fo' breakfast," }, { "from": "human", "value": "See, Freddie, said Dinah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "De red ones show above de ground. And we must only pull de ones wid de big leaves, 'cause dey're ripe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! he cried, frightened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinah, was that--a--a--a snake?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Snake, chile; lan' sakes alive! Dat was a poor little toady--more scare' den you was," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's pick beans," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not beans fer breakfast," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That stuff there, then," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I dunno. Martha didn't say so, but it sure does look pretty. Yes, I guess we kin pick some fo' salad," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Out early," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See! see!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Such big ones!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at mine, insisted Flossie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't they bigger?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But my redishes are-are--redder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ours are sweeter," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ours are--ours are--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hotter," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't eat 'em all, Martha told the boys," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But they'll go good in the picnic lunch." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Too bad papa had to go so early, Bert remarked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He just loves green stuff." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So does Frisky," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put peaches in my basket, Dinah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And strawberries in mine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you-uns jest wait! Dinah told them;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wood!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How would you like to take two homer pigeons along? he asked them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can send a note back to Martha to say what time you will be home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jolly!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait! Harry told the visitors." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must be careful not to scare them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See--de--coon; see--de--coon!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Bert, you can get the quills, he told his cousin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go into the chicken yard and look for two long goose feathers. Tom Mason, you can go in the kitchen and ask Dinah for a piece of tissue paper and a spool of silk thread." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Bert, went on Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have dinner ready at five. And on the other he wrote:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "John, come for us at four." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, continued Harry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All ready now, concluded Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now we'll put them in this basket, and they're ready for the picnic," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's like a kindergarten party, laughed Nan, as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, 'tain't! Freddie corrected, for he really was not fond of the kindergarten." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's just like a picnic," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's their cousins from the city," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't they pretty clothes!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's stop for a drink at the spring," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what a cute little pond!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a spring," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me! Let me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Freddie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! oh! oh! spluttered Freddie, nearly choked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm drowned!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Freddie! was all Mrs. Bobbsey could say, as a shower of clean handkerchiefs was sent from the hay wagon to dry the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just like the flour barrel! laughed Bert, referring to the funny accident that befell Freddie the winter before, as told in my other book" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Bobbsey Twins." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only that was a dry bath and this a wet one," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you get a drink?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yep! answered Freddie bravely," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just turn in there, John!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's build a furnace," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are there giants?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but there are very dark lonely places the woods and little boys might find snakes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And bears! put in Freddie, to which remark his mother said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dinner served in the dining car!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All ready!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how pretty! the girls all exclaimed, as they beheld the" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Potatoes first! Harry announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Simply fine!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be fun to camp out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, just think of the dishes saved," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And we really don't need them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think how the soldiers get along!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the firemen'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A snake, a snake!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There he is! There he is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whack him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look out! He's a big fellow!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "At him, boys! At him!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a beauty!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a black racer!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lucky we saw him first! remarked Harry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Racers are very poisonous!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's go home; there might be more!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness! exclaimed Harry suddenly," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "All ready!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It won't take long for them to get home!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They'll get lost!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, they won't. They know which way we came," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But they was shut up in the basket," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet they could see," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can pigeons see when they're asleep?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I'd like to have pigeon eyes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mamma, come quick! called Flossie, running along a path at the edge of the wood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a tree over there pouring water, and it isn't raining a drop!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There it is! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See the water dropping down!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A maple tree, Harry informed them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, catch it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would take a good deal to make a sugar cake, Harry said," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now we will put it in a clean milk bottle, Mrs. Bobbsey said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's have a game of hide-and-seek," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It. Of course it took a big tree to hide the girls' dresses, and Nan had no trouble in spying Mildred first. Soon the game was going along merrily, and the boys and girls were out of breath trying to get" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's Roy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hiding somewhere," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Over at the maple tree!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Down at the spring," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Looking for flowers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, maybe the giants have stoled him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Or maybe the children's hawk has took him away," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The boat!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There he is! There he is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And in the boat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's drifting away! screamed Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, quick, save him!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you swim?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's quite a long way out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we must be careful not to frighten him. See, he has left the oars here. Bert and I can carry one out and swim with one hand. Harry and Jack, can you manage the other?" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit still, Roy," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Easy now! called Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we are," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah, hurrah!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here they are! Here they are!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all the things that happened!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That made the picnic lively! declared, John," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "How much have you got?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fifty cents together, twenty-five cents each," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've got thirty-five, and we had better get our stuff early, for Stimpson sold out before noon last year," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have to get torpedoes for Freddie and Flossie, and Chinese fire-crackers for Nan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess I'll buy a few snakes, they look so funny coiling out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going to have sky rockets and Roman candles. Everybody said they were the prettiest last year," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If they have red fire I must get some of it for the girls," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's make up a parade!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can the little ones come too?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, and we're goin' to let the girls march in a division by themselves, Bert told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My sister Nan is going to be captain, and we'll leave all the girls' parts to her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be sure and bring your flag," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How would the goat wagons do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine; we could let Roy and Freddie ride in them, said Bert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell any of the other fellows who have goat teams to bring them along too." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eight o'clock sharp at our lane," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't tell the boys," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't they be surprised?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and I am going to carry a real Betsy Ross flag, one with thirteen stars, you know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, yes, Betsy Ross made the first flag, didn't she?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have ten big girls, Nan counted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then with Flossie as Liberty we will want Bessie and Nettie for her assistants." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Attendants," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you awake, Bert?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yep," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be careful! whispered Bert;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah! shouted Freddie, answering the call from his window," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be right down!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ouch! yelled Tom Mason, the first one to bum his fingers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A sisser caught me right on the thumb." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go on back, girls! called Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll get your dresses burnt if you don't." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's time to get ready!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just tie your scarfs loose under your left arm, ordered Captain Nan, and the girls quickly obeyed like true cadets. The broad red-white-and-blue bunting was very pretty over the girls' white dresses, and indeed the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "looked as if they would outdo the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where's Nettie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She wouldn't come because she had no white dress," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, what a shame; she'll be so disappointed! Besides, we need her to make a full line, Nan said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just wait a minute. Lock the door after me," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, isn't she sweet!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There go the drums! Nan declared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We must be careful to get down the lane without being seen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah! hurrah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, don't you look fine!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And don't you too!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Freddie! exclaimed the girls." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't he a lovely Uncle Sam!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fall in!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cadets first," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right foot, left foot, right foot, forward march!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goodness gracious, sakes alive! Do come see de childrens! Ha, ha! Dat sure am a parade!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, isn't it just beautiful!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My! exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look at Flossie!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And see Freddie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we must get the camera!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the bear! the bear! called everybody, as they saw" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Teddy" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's great," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Halt!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look this way. There now, all ready," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right wheel! forward march!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "My goat almost runned away! lisped Freddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I held on tight like a real fireman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And mine wanted to stop and eat grass in the middle of the big parade," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now eat up your ice cream. Nettie, have some more? Jack, you surely need two plates after carrying that bear skin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're goin' to shoot the old cannon off, father, Harry told Uncle Daniel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're foolish to put powder in that old cracked gun, remarked Uncle Daniel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take care, if you go over, that you all keep at a safe distance." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go up in that big limb of the willow tree, suggested Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can see it all then, and be out of range of the fire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're almost ready," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look out!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he's killed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor Peter!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He ought to know better!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father said that cannon was dangerous," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's only unconscious from the shock, spoke up Mr. Mason, who was leaning down very close to Peter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand back, and give him air." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't touch it, said Tom Mason, as a little fellow attempted to pick up a piece of the old gun." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There might be powder in it half lighted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's subject to fainting spells, she told the frightened people," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did it go off?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guess it did, and you went off with it, Mr. Mason said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you feel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'll be all right when my head clears a bit. I guess I fainted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you did, said Mrs. Burns," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go home, Harry said to his cousin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have to get all our fireworks ready before evening." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look at the balloon! called John from the carriage house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's going to land in the orchard. This announcement caused all the children to hurry up to the orchard, for everybody likes to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's a man in it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, that's the balloon that went up from the farmers' picnic," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he'll fall! cried Freddie, all excited." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's catch him--in something!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's all right, John assured the little boy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That umbrella keeps him from coming down too quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How does it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you see, sonny, the air gets under the umbrella and holds it up. The man's weight then brings it down gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, maybe he will let us fly up in it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here he comes! here he comes!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hello there!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello yourself! answered John." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you have a nice ride?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "First class, replied the man with the stars on his shirt." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I've got a long walk back to the grove. Could I hire a bicycle around here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can leave it at the ice-cream stand, Harry told the stranger." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know the man there, and he will take care of it for me until I call for it." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a truly fireman! Freddie said, after listening to all the dangers there are so far above ground." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm a real fireman too!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there! exclaimed the man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's good luck. Now, whichever one of you boys gets that balloon first will get ten dollars. That's what we pay for bringing it back!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go it, Bert!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep it up, Harry!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'd get it, Tom!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They've got it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's Harry!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, it's Bert!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three cheers for Ned!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose we drive down, Uncle Daniel suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then we can bring Ned back with his ten dollars." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one needs it more than I do, Mrs. Prentice told Mr. Bobbsey, who had brought Ned home in the wagon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were all glad when Ned got there first," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be sure to come up to our fireworks tonight," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has certainly been a great Fourth of July! Uncle Daniel exclaimed, later in the evening when the children fired off their Roman candles and sky rockets and burned the red fire. The little children had beautiful pinwheels and" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can play in the coach house, Aunt Sarah told the children," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The children promised to remember, and soon they were all out in the big wagon house playing merrily. Freddie climbed in the wagon and made believe it was a" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Freddie, you be coachman, coaxed Flossie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But who will put out all the fires?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make b'lieve they are all out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you can't make b'lieve about fires, argued the little fellow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you, Nan suggested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will suppose this is a great big high tally-ho party, and the ladies always drive them. I'll be away up high on the box, but we ought to have someone blow a horn!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll blow the horn, Freddie finally gave in," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! we would love to," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, Nan, John told her," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, thank you, John, Nan answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll do just as I have seen you doing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be careful not to shake the dirt off the roots, said John," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's put little stones around the path," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to be a planter too, called Freddie, running up the path to John." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I want to plant radishes, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you just wait a few minutes, sonny, said John," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you see, we make a long drill like this," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it rains again that will be a river," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you see this seed is very fine, continued John." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I am going to let you plant it if you're careful." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't redishes! exclaimed Freddie" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to plant redishes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But this is the seed, and that's what makes the radishes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nope, that's black and it can't make it red?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wait and see, the gardener told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You just take this little paper of seeds and scatter them in the drill. See, I have mixed them with sand so they will not grow too thick." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're all gone! he told John presently;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, that's enough. Now we will see how your crop grows. See, I just cover the seed very lightly like mamma covers Freddie when he sleeps in the summer time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you cover them more in the winter time too, like mamma does?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, indeed I do, said the gardener," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They ain't growing yet, he said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't they come up, John?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! laughed the gardener," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at our garden! called Nan proudly, from across the path." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doesn't it look straight and pretty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You did very well indeed, said John, inspecting the new lettuce patch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, you'll have to keep it clear of weeds, and if a dry spell should come you must use the watering can." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll come up and tend to it every morning, Nan declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am going to see what kind of lettuce I can raise." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mamma! she sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The the pearls are gone," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gone! Did you lose them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I don't know," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where do you think you lost 'em?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I don't know. I was down in the garden, and up the lane, and at the well, and out in the barn, and over to the apple orchard, and feeding the chickens, and over in the hayfield,--and lots of places." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I sup--suppose I'll never see them again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I guess they'll turn up some time," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They can't be lost so very, very bad, lisped Flossie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but the farm is so very big!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When can we pick it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In another week!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Papa will come up from Lakeport to-night, Nan told Flossie;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, I declare! he exclaimed in real surprise." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have done splendidly. This is a fine lettuce patch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! screamed Freddie from the other side of the garden." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See my redishes! They growed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They growed! They growed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But you must only pick the ripe ones, his father told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And did you really plant them?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yep! John showed me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I'll tell you, Aunt Sarah remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will let our little farmers pick their vegetables for dinner, and then we will be able to say just how good they are." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will have to prepare them for the table, Mrs. Bobbsey said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us see, girls, what a pretty dish you can make." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Them's my redishes!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we can all have some, can't we, Freddie?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, 'course you can. But I don't want all my good redishes smothered in that big dish of green stuff," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Nan, you can serve your vegetables, Aunt Sarah said, and then Nan very neatly put a few crisp lettuce leaves on each small plate, and at the side she placed a few of Freddie's radishes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just think, we've done it all from the garden to the table!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I done the radishes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you have certainly all done very nicely, Mrs. Bobbsey said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that kind of play is like going to school, for it teaches you important lessons in nature." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I heard piano-playing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Freddie, are you sure?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, repeated the little fellow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it wasn't very good playing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've made a careful examination, he said, on coming back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can see nothing unusual. Some of the children left a piece of cake on the keys of the piano, that's all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, cake can't play, put in Freddie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maybe it was a ghost." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you must have been dreaming, said his mother." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, go to sleep," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Mason is going to bring his colt out this afternoon, said Harry to Bert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, is it that pretty little brown horse I saw in the field back of Tom's home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's him, Harry replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't he a beauty!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I would like first-rate to ride him, but young horses are awful skittish, aren't they?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes, but this one is partly broken. At any rate, we wouldn't have far to fall, for he is a little fellow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've made a track around the fields, Tom told his companions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may go first, the boys told him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get app, Sable!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whoa! whoa!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Get off there, get off there!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Light a match and set it under his nose, Harry suggested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the way to make a balky horse go!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look out! Hold on, Tom!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's running away!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he throws him Tom will surely be hurt!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whoa! whoa! whoa!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mercy! cried Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could only get him there he would have to stop," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drop off, Tom, drop off! yelled the boys." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll throw you against the fence!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry! said Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you hurt?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel as if I had dropped from a balloon onto a lot of cobblestones, Tom answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes indeed, Harry admitted;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess he doesn't like the smell of sulphur matches. Lucky he was not injured with that fall against the fence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I found I had to throw him, Tom said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose we ought to make him run until he is played out, said Bert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the way to cure a horse of running away." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I came over to tell you what a scallywag of a boy you've got, began the cross old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He and a lot of young loafers took a horse and drove him all through my cornfield to-day, and now you've got to pay the damages." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My son is not a scallywag, Mr. Mason declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! you will, eh? the other sneered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Think I'm afraid of an old constable up here, do you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well now, see here, Mr. Mason said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Be reasonable and do not quarrel over an accident. If any corn is knocked down I'll get Tom to fix it up, if it's broken down we will see what it would cost to replace it. But the boys did not do it purposely, and it was worse for Tom than anyone else, for he's all black and blue from the hard knocks he got." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There now, said Mr. Mason," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess that corn is as good as ever. If it wants any more hoeing Tom will come around in the morning and do it. He is too stiff to move to-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How would you like to be a jockey! laughed his companions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You held on like a champion, but you were not in training for the banging you got." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I guess Sable will make a fine racehorse, said Tom," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let's go over to the cove, Harry said when they all started off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's lots of good fish in that dark corner." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out! called Harry, trying to dodge the flapping fish." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put your catch down. He's a good one, but I don't care about having him kiss me that way again." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got one, called Tom next, at the same moment pulling his line and bringing up a pretty little sunfish. Now" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going out on the springboard," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know you can't swim, August, said Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! I'll be all right," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "August!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quick! called Harry to his companions." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He can't swim!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strike out, August! yelled Bert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're coming," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, where is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here! cried Tom Mason, who was quite a distance out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here he is! Help! come quick!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't pull down, August, went on Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try to help yourself, or you'll pull me under." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take hold of this, he called to August," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's very weak, said Harry when they pulled August up on the shore." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess he has swallowed a lot of water. We better roll him on the grass and work his arms up and down. That will revive him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! he murmured at last," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so sick!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess you are, August, said Tom," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll run over to Smith's and get him something to wear home," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can have my fish, August," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And mine too," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I fell asleep," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Guess we all did! added Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, said Harry, using that loved name to show that what he was about to say was something important," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peter Burns is sick. He has not been able to work since the cannon exploded and gave him the shock, and all his peas are spoiling because there's no one to pick them. Mrs. Burns hired some boys yesterday, but they broke down so many vines she had to stop them; and, mother, would you mind if Bert and I picked some to-day? The sun is not hot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, my dear, replied Aunt Sarah," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sure your mother won't mind? Mrs. Burns asked the boys, knowing Harry's folks did not need the money paid to pick the peas." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I'm very glad to have you if your mothers are satisfied." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll go down this row and you take that. suggested Bert to Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then we can talk to each other without hollering." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's have a race, called Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See who gets his basket full first." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But no skipping for big ones, put in Jack." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have to pick every ripe one." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are fine pickers, she told the boys, seeing how quickly they worked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I pay ten cents a basket, you know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I guess we can earn a dollar a day at this rate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm done," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, you're not, said Harry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! exclaimed Jack, who had just slipped between the rows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! there goes my basket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ha! ha! laughed Bert." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm first. My basket is full." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm next!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I'll be last I guess," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's mine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It won't take long to fill the bag, said Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare! said Mrs. Burns, looking at the three full bags the boys had picked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't that splendid! But I can't pay until Peter comes from market." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We just did it for fun, answered Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't want any pay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed you must have forty cents apiece, ten cents a basket, she insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See what a good load you have picked!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, really, Mrs. Burns; mother wouldn't like us to take the money, Harry declared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are glad to have helped you, and it was only fun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said finally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are some people in this world who talk about charity, but a good boy is a gift from heaven," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The crop would have been spoiled to-morrow, remarked Tom, as he and his companions started up the road." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm awfully glad you thought of helping her, Harry." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, fellows, Tom said later, while they sat on the pond bank trying to see something interesting in the cool, clear water," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine, the others answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Animals of course, continued Tom;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, some, Harry admitted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's Sable, for instance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I could be a cowboy, and ride him just the same, spoke up Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rode him around the track yesterday, and he went all right. He was only scared with that sulphur match when he ran away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A circus would be fine, Bert put in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We could have Frisky as the Sacred Calf." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And Snoopy as the Wild Cat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And two trained goats," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And a real human bear, 'Teddy'?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then a cage of pigeons," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's get them all in training," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you! Harry planned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can each train our own animals and then we can bring them together in a well-organized circus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When will we have it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About next week," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, we saw the prettiest little rabbits today, Nan told her mother, after a trip in the woods." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flossie and Freddie were sitting on an old stump when two rabbits ran right across the road in front of them. Freddie ran after them as far as he could go in the brushwood, but of course no one can go as fast as a rabbit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the squirrels, Flossie told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think the squirrels are the prettiest things that live in the woods. They have tails just like mamma's feather boa and they walk sitting up so cute." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I think the rabbits are the nicest, lisped Freddie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And we have made the loveliest fern garden up back of the swing, said Flossie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We got a whole basket of ferns in the woods and transplanted them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the center we have some lovely Jack-in the-pulpits, Nan added." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some are light green striped, and the largest are purple with gold stripes. The Jacks stand up straight, just like real live boys preaching in a pulpit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think, mamma, asked Flossie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All flowers are beautiful, their mamma told them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And, mamma, we got a big piece of the loveliest green moss! It is just like real velvet, said Flossie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We found a place all covered with it down by the pond, under the dark cedar trees. Nan said it wouldn't grow in our garden, but I brought some home to try. I put it in a cool dark place, and I'm going to put lots of water on it every day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Moss must be very cool and damp to grow, Mrs. Bobbsey replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I remember how disappointed I used to be when I was a little girl and tried to make it grow around my geraniums. It would always dry up and turn brown in a few days." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, called Freddie from his garden under the cherry tree," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're mice! exclaimed Nan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, aren't they cute! Let's catch them. Call Bert or Harry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a nest of field mice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll put them in a cage and have them in our circus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they're my mice, cried Freddie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're only going to help you take care of them in a little box. Oh, there's the mother--catch her, Harry," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a queer kind of a trap, Harry said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's just like a cage. We can put them in this until we build a larger one. We can make one out of a box with a wire door." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Feed mice! exclaimed Dinah" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sakes alive, chile! you go bringing dem mice in de house to eat all our cake and pie. You just better drown dem in de brook before dey bring a whole lot more mices around here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll keep them away from the house, Bert told Dinah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're going to have a circus, you know, and these will be our trained mice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you! said Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We might catch butterflies and have them under a big glass on the table with all the small animals." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That would be good, Harry agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We could catch some big brown ones and some little fancy ones. Then after dark we could get some big moths down by the postoffice electric light." } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! look at this one! called Freddie, coming up with a great green butterfly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it bird? he asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "See how big it is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will try to keep them alive, said Harry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, oh say! exclaimed Bert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fine! declared Harry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got a big glass tank I used to have gold fish in. We'll get the other fellows to help catch some snakes, fish, and turtles and toads, and--and anything else that will stand water!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can catch hop-toads," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't put the snakes in with the others or they'll eat them up, said Jack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll get a big glass jar for the snakes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And say! said Harry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will we charge admission to the show?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sure--five cents each, said Tom," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lucky it isn't raining," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give Mrs. Burns a front seat," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When will it begin?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw Harry and Bert go in the tent some time ago, whispered Nan;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't it grand!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, he began, making a profound bow," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen! Our first number is Frisky, the Sacred Calf of India! he exclaimed, imitating that queer-voiced man called a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Barker" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sacred calf is too sacred to smile," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wasn't that splendid!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really never enjoyed a big circus more than this!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, he began again," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare! exclaimed Dinah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jest see dat Snoopy kitty-cat! If he can't do real reg'lar circus tricks! And jest to think how he cut up on de cars! 'Pears like as if he was doin' it fer jokes den too!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And look at Fluffy! exclaimed Martha;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, a teeter-tauter! called Freddie, unable to restrain his joy any longer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bet on Snoop. He's the heaviest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! oh! oh!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ladies and gentlemen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're mine!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now you will hear the mice sing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good! good! called Mr. Bobbsey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got real talent here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now you see our aquarium," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here we have a real sea serpent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let the little ones walk right up and see them, Bert said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Form in line and pass in this way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now here are our alligators and crocodiles," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And these are sea-lions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In this separate tank, he declared," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I declare! said Mrs. Burns." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If this isn't a sure-enough circus. I often paid a half-dollar when I went to see things no better than these!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Bert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(These were Tom's goldfish.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will notice how bespangled they are. They say this comes from the fish eating the diamonds lost in shipwrecks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a whopper!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The last part of our menagerie is the cage of prize butterflies, said Bert." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These butterflies are rare and scarce and--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hard to catch!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After that we will give you the best number of the programme, our chariot race." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that's going to be Tom!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, it's Bert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Jack has our goat-wagon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess there'll be a whole lot in the race, said Freddie," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know when I have enjoyed myself so much, declared Mrs. Manners, fanning herself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had no idea boys could be so clever." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's because you only have girls," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think we ought to give them a treat for working so hard? whispered Mrs. Herold to Aunt Sarah." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would be delighted to have them all to dinner," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That would be very nice, I'm sure, Aunt Sarah replied;" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're comin'!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I'm just so nervous! whispered Flossie!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope none of the animals will get loose." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, ladies and gentlemen, called Tom Mason, appearing at the tent," } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hurrah! hurrah!" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now you see ladies and gentlemen, began Bert, laughing a little at the show in broad daylight," } ]