Vulgar words in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Page 1)
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"Boys," he said, "I'll be darned if I close down till I'm ready to close down.
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But at night, when Mr. Smith and Billy, the desk clerk, opened up the cash register and figured out the combined losses of the caff and the Rats' Cooler, Mr. Smith would say: "Billy, just wait till I get the license renood, and I'll close up this damn caff so tight they'll never know what hit her.
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Then presently young Fizzlechip, who had been teller in Mullins's Bank and that everybody had thought a worthless jackass before, came back from the Cobalt country with a fortune, and loafed round in the Mariposa House in English khaki and a horizontal hat, drunk all the time, and everybody holding him up as an example of what it was possible to do if you tried.
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It was one of those regular poets with a solemn jackass face, and lank parted hair and eyes like puddles of molasses.
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Anyway, what with the phizzing of the seltzer and the lights and the girls, Pupkin began to feel so fine that he didn't care a cuss for all the Browning in the world, and as for the poet-oh, to blazes with him!
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The Conservatives called him the old jackass and the old army mule and the old booze fighter and the old grafter and the old scoundrel.
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After that if any farmer thought that he was not properly represented in Parliament, it showed that he was an ass.
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You could see from his quiet low collar and white tie that his electorate were a Godfearing, religious people, while the horseshoe pin that he wore showed that his electorate were not without sporting instincts and knew a horse from a jackass.