Vulgar words in Roughing It, Part 5. (Page 1)
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I was a good average St. Louis and New Orleans pilot and by no means ashamed of my abilities in that line; wages were two hundred and fifty dollars a month and no board to pay, and I did long to stand behind a wheel again and never roam any more-but I had been making such an ass of myself lately in grandiloquent letters home about my blind lead and my European excursion that I did what many and many a poor disappointed miner had done before; said "It is all over with me now, and I will never go back home to be pitied-and snubbed."
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So he went, disguised as a teamster, to a little wayside telegraph office in the mountains, got acquainted with the operator, and sat in the office day after day, smoking his pipe, complaining that his team was fagged out and unable to travel-and meantime listening to the dispatches as they passed clicking through the machine from Virginia.
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Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word-but you see I'm on an awful strain, in this palaver, on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild.