Vulgar words in The Cruise of the Kawa (Page 1)
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"Damn," muttered Whinney.
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"This here is a astrolabe," he said, "jackass quadrant, I call it."
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"Not by a damn sight."
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"Can't quite figger it out," he would mutter, lowering the astrolabe from its aim at the sun--"accordin' to this here jackass-quadrant we orter be dee-creesing our latitude--but the answer comes out different."
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"Too much jackass and too little quadrant," snapped Swank, whose nerves were still like E strings.
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"Hard to say," he answered, "accordin' to compass-plant I'm steerin' a straight course for anywhere, but accordin' to the jackass (he had dropped the word "quadrant" since Swank's thrust) we're spinnin' a web round these seas from where we started to nowhere via where we be."