Vulgar words in Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades (Page 1)
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[Illustration: MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)] MARK TWAIN "Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water.
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You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in it and say: "Barley-corn, Barley-corn, Injun meal shorts, "Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts," and then walk away quick eleven steps, with your eyes shut and then turn round three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.