Vulgar words in Roughing It, Part 1. (Page 1)
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"The Thoroughbrace is Broke"-Mails Delivered Properly-Sleeping Under Difficulties-A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business-A Modern Gulliver-Sage-brush-Overcoats as an Article of Diet-Sad Fate of a Camel-Warning to Experimenters CHAPTER IV.
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As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert-from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean-as the "jackass rabbit."
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He is just like any other rabbit, except that he is from one third to twice as large, has longer legs in proportion to his size, and has the most preposterous ears that ever were mounted on any creature but a jackass.
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Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
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And all this time the dog is only a short twenty feet behind the cayote, and to save the soul of him he cannot understand why it is that he cannot get perceptibly closer; and he begins to get aggravated, and it makes him madder and madder to see how gently the cayote glides along and never pants or sweats or ceases to smile; and he grows still more and more incensed to see how shamefully he has been taken in by an entire stranger, and what an ignoble swindle that long, calm, soft-footed trot is; and next he notices that he is getting fagged, and that the cayote actually has to slacken speed a little to keep from running away from him-and then that town-dog is mad in earnest, and he begins to strain and weep and swear, and paw the sand higher than ever, and reach for the cayote with concentrated and desperate energy.
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The cayote lives chiefly in the most desolate and forbidding desert, along with the lizard, the jackass-rabbit and the raven, and gets an uncertain and precarious living, and earns it.
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First we left the dogs behind; then we passed a jackass rabbit; then we overtook a cayote, and were gaining on an antelope when the rotten girth let go and threw me about thirty yards off to the left, and as the saddle went down over the horse's rump he gave it a lift with his heels that sent it more than four hundred yards up in the air, I wish I may die in a minute if he didn't.