Vulgar words in Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. (Page 1)
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All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color.
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You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it.
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He said, 'Well, taking you by-and-large, you do seem to be more different kinds of an ass than any creature I ever saw before.
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As long as that hill over yonder is only one hill, I can boom right along the way I'm going; but the moment it splits at the top and forms a V, I know I've got to scratch to starboard in a hurry, or I'll bang this boat's brains out against a rock; and then the moment one of the prongs of the V swings behind the other, I've got to waltz to larboard again, or I'll have a misunderstanding with a snag that would snatch the keelson out of this steamboat as neatly as if it were a sliver in your hand.