Vulgar words in The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes (Page 1)
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You'll have a nice time," he continued, "out carousing till daylight; lucky I've got his wallet in the fire-proof, the jackass would be robbed before he got back, _and I'd lose my bill!_" Don Cæsar did not return to make good his promise _in the morning_, and so the landlord took the liberty of investigating the wallet, deposited for safe keeping in the fire-proof of the office, by the Don; and lo!
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But cuss the sarpints, there's no more dependence to be put in 'em than the cantankerous wolves, and roast 'em, I always sets old kit talkin' Dutch to them varmints, the moment I claps eyes on 'em.
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"Haven't you a horse, jackass, mule or a wheelbarrow--any thing, so we can be carted in, right off, too?" says Hall.
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But Sam has now grown to be a crowder; his spunk, too, goes up with his resources, and he don't wait for any body to "knock the chip off his hat," but goes right smack up to a crowd of fighting bullies, and rolling up his sleeves, he coolly "wants to know" if any body had any thing to say about him, in that crowd!
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Time flew, and finally, feeling considerably fagged, and getting no further view of my deer, and being no longer able to trace the red drops she sprinkled along, I sat down, wiped the salt water from my parboiled countenance, and began to---- think I'd gone far enough for old venison.
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Blessed was he that invented sleep, says Sancho Panza, but he was a better workman that invented _spunk_.
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All of a sudden I plucked up my spunk, and by a sort of martial command, ordered my limbs to duty, and marched straight for the fire in the weary distance.
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But one day the old miser ran foul of a snag.
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"I guess you're a fool any way," says the dog man: "you don't know a hound from a tan yard cur, you jackass!
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In the South, the week beginning with Christmas and ending with New Year's day, is devoted to the largest liberty by the negroes, who have one grand and extensive _saturnalia_, visit their friends and relations, make love to the "gals" on neighboring plantations, spend the little change saved through the year, or now and then given to them by indulgent or generous masters, and in fact have a glorious good time!
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I have moved up town because I thought it would be more pleasant; I bought a modest kind of family carriage because I could afford it, and believed it would add to our recreations and health; the carriage and horses required care; I engaged a man to attend to them, fix up the garden, and be useful generally, and added a girl or two to your domestic departments, in order to lighten your own cares, &c. Now, all this, my dear woman, you ought to know, rests a very important responsibility upon my shoulders, health, life, and--two thousand dollars a year, and if you imagine it compatible with common sense, or consonant with my judgment, to make an ass or fool of myself, by going into the extravagances and tom-fooleries of Tannersoil, our neighbor over the way, who happens for the time to be 'under government,' with a salary of nothing to speak of, but with stealings equal to those of a successful freebooter, you--you--you have placed a--a bad estimate upon my common sense, Madam."
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"No, cuss me if I do understand you, sir!" sharply replies the landlord.
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"Yes, lug him into our boat," said another; "so now, you skunk, lay still; don't open your trap, or I'll brain you on sight!"
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You'll know what's up, pooty soon, you ugly cuss, you!"
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"Shet up, you piratin' cuss, you; shet up, or I'll give you a settler!" was the reply.
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[Illustration: "Shet up, you piratin' cuss you; shet up or I'll give you a settler!--_Page_ 305.]
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"A-a-a-_chee!_ oo-oo-augh-h-h-_ch-chee!_ Cuss that--a-_chee_--pipe.
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Blockhead--none of my kith or kin ever had such an infernal complaint.
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What a stupid ass a man is to hang around in this world until he's a nuisance to himself and every body else!" grunted old Job, as he groped his way down stairs, and into the parlor.
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Ma'am, you've got great treasures here; a man must be a stupid ass to call these _incumbrances_.