Vulgar words in Poor White (Page 1)
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"Look at your own people--poor white trash--how lazy and shiftless they are.
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When he arose and went back along the street to the station master's house and when the woman there looked at him reproachfully and muttered words about the poor white trash of the town, he was ashamed and looked at the floor.
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Allie Mulberry the half-wit was one of the highlights of life in the town.
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Beside being a half-wit he had something the matter with his legs.
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"Take the damn things to Philadelphia where you got 'em," he shouted at the back of the farmer who had turned to go out of the shop.
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"Well, then, let 'em go to Philadelphia, let 'em go any damn place they please," he growled, and then, as though his own words had re-established his self-respect, he straightened his shoulders and glared at the puzzled and alarmed boy.
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They would play safe, damn 'em."
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No one but the half-wit and Steve Hunter were admitted to the society of the telegraph operator.
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When the first small model of Hugh McVey's plant-setting machine had been whittled out by the half-wit Allie Mulberry, it replaced the famous ship, floating in the bottle, that for two or three years had been lying in the window of Hunter's jewelry store.
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Allie tried valiantly to follow the instructions given him and to understand what his master was trying to do, and Hugh, finding himself unembarrassed by the presence of the half-wit, sometimes spent hours trying to explain the workings of some intricate part of the proposed machine.
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One day when a part Hugh had fashioned would not work the half-wit himself made the model of a part that worked perfectly.
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Damn it, I tell you we got to get out and back them fellows up.
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One evening after dark and without saying anything to his wife, he went down along Turner's Pike to the old factory at Pickleville where Hugh with the half-wit Allie Mulberry, and the two mechanics from the city, were striving to correct the faults in the plant-setting machine.
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It was as though she had walked suddenly into a room where a man and woman were making love.
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Two birds in a tree nearby made love to each other.
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"Damn women anyway," he muttered.
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There was a creative impulse in her that could not function until she had been made love to by a man.
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She had called his people lazy louts and poor white trash and had railed against his inclination to dreams.
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By struggle and work he had conquered the dreams but could not conquer his ancestry, nor change the fact that he was at bottom poor white trash.
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"Damn!" she said explosively, and went out of the room.
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"The damn fools!" he cried.