Vulgar words in Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp (Page 1)
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Now some people once started the idea that a donkey is a very stupid animal; and, like many more such theories, that one has been handed down to posterity, and believed in as a natural history fact, while donkey or ass has become a term of reproach for those not blessed with too much brain.
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"Nay, lad; yow can't kill an ass so easy.
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Ice is gone and to-morrow I'm going to pole across and help him knock up a frame, and he'll do the rest hissen."
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Leave that owd ass alone, lad, and listen to me."
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He was weary too with poling the boat and walking, and but for the romance of the expedition he would have declared himself fagged out.