Vulgar words in Nick of the Woods (Page 1)

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But he's a marciful man, Old Nathan, and the horse thar, old White Dobbin, war foundered and good for nothing ever since the boys made a race with him against Sammy Parker's jackass."

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cuss' rascal!

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And so, sodger, if you conscientiously thinks thar has been walloping enough done on both sides, I'm jist the man to help you all out of the bobbery;--though, cuss me, you might as well have cut me out of the beech without so much hard axing!"

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While they were thus engaged, the senior rose from the earth, staring about him for a moment with looks of stupid inquiry; until beginning at last to comprehend the accident that had happened to him, and perhaps moved by the late of his treasure, he also burst into a fury; and snatching up the nearest gun, he clapped it to his horse's head, and shot it dead on the spot, roaring out, "Cuss' white-man hoss!

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Cuss debbil hoss!"

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I'm the person what knows this h'yar town better nor ar another feller in all Kentucky; and that I stick on,--for, cuss me, I've stole hosses in it!"

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"Good Jack, honest Jack," replied his companion, "I am no such ass."

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And so, you see, it has a sort of set the old feller mad: he thinks of nothing but the Jibbenainosay,--(that is, when he's sober, though, cuss him, I believe it's all one when he's drunk, too.)

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And as for your gitting any good-will out of her, cuss me if I believe it.

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So cuss away, if it will do you good; and I'll stand it.

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If you killed the old feller and the young-uns, you needn't be ashamed of it; for cuss me, I think all the better of you for it; for it's not every feller can kill three Injuns that has him in the tugs, by no means no-how.

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"It is jist to save you from the torture," said he, "that I'm now speaking; for, cuss me, the more I think of it, the more I can't stand it no-how.

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You don't know it, captain; but that Telie, that poor critter that's afeard of her own shadow, did run all risks, and play all manner of fool's tricks, to save you from this identical same captivation; and the night you was sleeping at Bruce's fort, and we waiting for you at the ford, she cried, and begged, and prayed that I would do you no more mischief; and, cuss her, she threatened to tell you and Bruce, there, the whole affair of the ambush; till I scared her with my tomahawk, like a d----d rascal as I am (but there's nothing will fetch her round but fear of murdering); and so swore her to keep silence.

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