Vulgar words in The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (Page 1)

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cuss x 24
damn x 3
snag x 1
            

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"'Oh cuss him, it was him then was it?'

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Cuss the rooks!

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I don't mind its huskin' my voice, for there is no one to talk to, but cuss it, it has softened my bones.

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Cuss 'em!

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Cuss 'em, let any o' these Britishers give me slack, and I'll give 'em cranberry for their goose, I know.

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He'll think he has run foul of a snag, _I_ know.

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Lord, I'll shack right over their heads, as they do over a colonist; only when they do, they never say warny wunst, cuss 'em, they arn't civil enough for that.

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Hit or miss, rough or tumble, claw or mud-scraper, any way, you damn please, I'm your man."

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"'See 'em, cuss 'em, I don't want to see 'em, I tell you.

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"I shall be off to the highlands this fall; but, cuss em, they hante got no woods there; nothin' but heather, and thats only high enough to tear your clothes.

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cuss the cost!' sais you.

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Cuss them sarvants!

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Oh, cuss 'em, I have no patience with them.

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Hurror for our side, and damn thimble-riggers.

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If they don't, it's their own fault, and cuss 'em they ought to be kicked, for if they ain't too lazy, there is no mistake in 'em, that's a fact.

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Why, cuss 'em, half a dozen of these gents own the country for miles round, so they have to keep some company at the house, and the rest is neighbours.

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Cuss them fellers that spoke, they are wuss than assembly men, hang me if they aint; and _they_ aint fit to tend a bear trap, for they'd be sure to catch themselves, if they did, in their own pit-fall.

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Bunkum; damn the thing but Bunkum.

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Cuss 'em, they won't visit a new man, or new plantation.

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Cuss 'em, the state would be a nation sight better sarved, if one o' these old rooks was sent out to try trover for a goose, and larceny for an old hat, to Nova Scotia, and you was sent for to take the ribbons o' the state coach here; hang me if it wouldn't.

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Cuss that word Bunkum!

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They have travelled by stumblin', and have measured every thing by the length of their knee, as they fell on the ground, as a milliner measures lace, by the bendin' down of the forefinger--cuss 'em!

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Cuss, these English, they can't live out of mobs.

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They ain't men, they hante the feelin's or pride o' men in 'em; they ain't what they used to be, the nasty, dirty, mean-spirited, sneakin' skunks, for if they had a heart as big as a pea--and that ain't any great size, nother--cuss 'em, when any feller pinted a finger at her to hurt her, or even frighten her, they'd string him right up on the spot, to the lamp post.

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Now, I'll send for Old Clay, to come in Cunard's steamer, and cuss 'em they ought to bring over the old hoss and his fixins, free, for it was me first started that line.

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Why, cuss 'em, says they, 'any fool knows that.'

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"Cuss 'em," said he, "I'll attract more attention afore I've done yet, when Old Clay comes, and then I'll tell 'em who I am--Sam Slick, from Slickville, Onion County, State of Connecticut, United States of America.

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Whips wear out, and so do spurs, but a good sneezer of a cuss hain't no wear out to it; it's always the same.'

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