Vulgar words in Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) (Page 1)
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Never talk back to a feller that's abusin' you-- Jest let him carry on, and rip, and cuss and swear; And when he finds his lyin' and his dammin's jest amusin' you, You've gut him clean kaflummixed, and you want to hold him there!
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[Illustration: August] O mellow month and merry month, Let me make love to you, And follow you around the world As knights their ladies do.
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I've got the cuss!"
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A few days ago I received the following letter: Sir:--I at first thought when I saw you at my laboratory the other day that you was a low, inquisitive cuss and so I spoke to you in harsh tones and reproached you and upbraided you by calling you everything I could lay my tongue to, but since then I have concluded that you didn't know any better.
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And that idee occurred to me The livin' minit 'at I see The little cuss elbowin' in To humor his besettin' sin.
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In this great work she is assisted by the pearl-gray or ecru colored jackass of the tepid South.
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Jackasses in the South are of two kinds, viz., male and female.
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Much as has been said of the jackass pro and con, I do not remember ever to have seen the above statement in print before, and yet it is as trite as it is incontrovertible.
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Here the jackass at times becomes a co-worker with the cow in hauling tobacco and other necessaries of life into town, but he goes no further in the matter of assistance.
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Last year the cuss sent a load of cream over and tried to sell it at the new creamatory while the funeral and hollercost was goin' on.
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Damn a farmer, anyhow!"