Vulgar words in The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter - A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont (Page 1)
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Your lawyer, Stevens, really appeared, once or twice, to be quite annoyed at his home thrusts; while lawyer Knights, or Rough-hewn Sam, as they call him, who, either from a sly wish to see his friend Stevens bothered, or from a real wish to help Harry, volunteered to whisper a few suggestions in his ear occasionally, sat by, and laughed out of his eyes, till they ran over with tears, to see a court lawyer so hard pushed by a country bumpkin."
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Why, the fellow has not two ideas above a jackass!--so talk out."
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"Two ideas above a jackass!--two ideas above a jackass, eh?" he said, and slowly repeated, as with flashing eyes he nodded significantly in the direction his master had taken.
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Here, however, he manifested no disposition to go to bed, but sitting down upon the side of his miserable pallet, he remained motionless and silent for fifteen or twenty minutes, when he began to soliloquize: "Jackass!--sleepy devil!--not wit enough to see what they are at in six weeks, eh?
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and now, to crown all, in clearing off the table, you must go, with your load of meats and half-filled gravy dishes, through the parlor, where you had no business to go, and there, like a blundering jackass, as you are, you must fall down and ruin the best carpet in the house!
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A moment of breathless silence ensued; when the harsh, ruffian voice of Patterson was heard from without,-- "Damn ye, why don't you fire?"
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As they approached the door, Woodburn, who had kept his post, unhurt, on one side of the steps, sprang forward to dispute their passage, and, after knocking up the swords and bayonets that were aimed at his breast, laid about him so lustily with his cudgel, that the whole party were, for some moments, kept at bay.
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"I once," calmly responded the prisoner--"I once knocked up a pistol, pointed at my breast by a robber.
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Kinder seems to me," he continued to his groaning prisoner--"kinder seems to me I heard somebody say,'tother night, that Bart Burt wasn't above a jackass.
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Wonder if I aint above a jackass now?
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"There was our differ about who was the jackass, and sich like, that night, you know, which I kinder thought I might as well settle; and then, again, there was your good-by, yesterday; but may be I've done enough to make that square, too.
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Why, God bless her for her spunk and independence, living and visiting, as she mostly has, from a child, in that circle of high-toned and bitter tories.
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I said safe; for as hopeless as some might have viewed my situation, even then, wet, benumbed, nearly dead with cold and exhaustion, and many miles from any human help or habitation, as I was, yet rallying every energy I had left me, and rolling, kicking, and pawing, to put my blood in motion, and regain the use of my limbs, I soon got on to my feet; when, seizing my gun, that I had hurled aside as I went down, I made for a dry tree in sight, fired into a spot of spunk I luckily found on one side of it, kindled a fire, warmed and dried myself, set forward again, and reached home that night; but with feelings towards that dog, sir, that I can never know towards any other created being--not even, in some respects, towards my wife and children.
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I think you make a better Quaker boy than you did a crazy man last time, or buffoon and tumbler the first one.