Vulgar words in Among the Brigands (Page 1)
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Flight of Both--Difference between a tame Donkey and a wild Ass.--Carried off to the Mountains.--The headlong Course.--The Mountain Pass.--The Journey's End.--Ill-omened Place.--Confounded by a new Terror.--The Brigands.
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"Come, Clive," said David, "let Frank and Bob enjoy their jackasses.
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_Flight of Bob.--Difference between a tame Donkey and a wild Ass.--Carried off to the Mountains.--The Headlong Course.--The Mountain Pass.--The Journey's End.--Ill-omened Place.--Confounded by a new Terror.--The Brigands._ When the donkey first bounded off, the feelings of Bob were nothing but pure, unmitigated delight.
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He was not a donkey--he was an ass--spirited, slender, sinewy, and fleet as a race-horse.
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But an ass!
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Was an ass possessed of any sense of decency--any conscience?
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and would this ass, merely out of that obstinacy, keep on running for all the rest of the day?
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This he repeated over and over, but without any success; and at length he reflected that _whoa_ was English, a language which, of course, an Italian ass could not understand.
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He hoped thug to find help--to get a horse or an ass, and also something to eat, and thus set forth for Salerno.
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The noise of me ass trotting over the bridge roused the two men, and they walked across and caught him.
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Strange to say, this animal, that had punished poor Bob's little trick so fearfully, showed no resentment whatever at his present treatment, but stood there, no longer the fiery wild ass, but the very living image of a patient donkey.
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In the minds of some of them, however, these side-roads suggested a fear, that Bob's ass might have turned off into some one of them; but of course, as they were all alike, they could not conjecture which one would have been taken by the runaway.
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He was no longer the fiery, wild ass of the day before, which had borne him helplessly away from his friends, but a tractable animal, with sufficient spirit, it is true, yet with all the signs of subordination and obedience.