Vulgar words in The Great Salt Lake Trail (Page 1)

This book at a glance

cuss x 2
i'll be darned x 1
jackass x 1
knock up x 1
            

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A few infantry companies were mounted on mules and sent in pursuit of the guerillas, but the Saints merely laughed at them, terming them jackass cavalry.

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How I escaped I know not, for the balls whistled all around me, knocking up the fire, and even piercing my clothing, yet I was not so much as scratched.

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I was all alone by myself, and I'll be darned if ten Injuns didn't come a screeching right after me.

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“We went down and down, until I began to think the old cuss was going to get me safe too, so I sung out—‘Hello!

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John, my son, for my sake, a little water.’ “Just then a little rascal stuck a hot iron into him, and off he ran in the flames, ‘cacheing’ on the cool side of a big chunk of fire, a-looking at us for water; but I cared no more for him than the Pawnee whose scalp was tucked in my belt for stealing my horses on Coon Creek; and I said:— “‘This hoss doesn't care a cuss for you; you're a sneaking hypocrite; you deserve all you've got and more too—and look here, old boy, it's me that says so.’ “I strayed off a piece, pretending to get cool, but this hoss began to get scared, and that's a fact; for the devils carried Cormon until they got tired of him, and, said I to myself, ‘Ain't they been doing me the same way?

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