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"What you've gone through--and I don't give a cuss what it is--ain't a marker for what's going to happen if yuh don't loosen up on the history," said Jack Bates firmly.

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"Ay tank--" "Oh, I don't give a cuss what you _tank_," Happy Jack cut in.

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"I sure got the old boy stirred up; I left him swearin' Dutch cuss-words that sounded like he was peevish.

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His meditations on the reviewing job are embalmed in "That Reviewer Cuss."

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In _The Unpopular Review_ the original title of "That Reviewer 'Cuss'" was brought into harmony with the dignity of its setting by being changed to "The Hack Reviewer."

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CONTENTS PROLOGUE: ON CARRYING A CANE I THE FISH REPORTER II ON GOING A JOURNEY III GOING TO ART EXHIBITIONS IV A ROUNDABOUT PAPER V THAT REVIEWER "CUSS" VI LITERARY LEVITIES IN LONDON VII HENRY JAMES, HIMSELF VIII MEMORIES OF A MANUSCRIPT IX "YOU ARE AN AMERICAN" X WHY MEN CAN'T READ NOVELS BY WOMEN XI THE DESSERT OF LIFE XII A CLERK MAY LOOK AT A CELEBRITY XIII CAUN'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE XIV HUNTING LODGINGS XV MY FRIEND, THE POLICEMAN XVI HELP WANTED--MALE, FEMALE XVII HUMAN MUNICIPAL DOCUMENTS XVIII AS TO PEOPLE XIX HUMOURS OF THE BOOK SHOP XX THE DECEASED XXI A TOWN CONSTITUTIONAL XXII READING AFTER THIRTY EPILOGUE: ON WEARING A HAT WALKING-STICK PAPERS PROLOGUE ON CARRYING A CANE Some people, without doubt, are born with a deep instinct for carrying a cane; some consciously acquire the habit of carrying a cane; and some find themselves in a position where the matter of carrying a cane is thrust upon them.

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V THAT REVIEWER "CUSS" There are very young, oh absurdly young!

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He's a mean, vindictive little cuss."

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"Wherever it came from, it's a wicked-lookin' cuss," said Bud.

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"Well, no matter, but this Ping-pong cuss, he had a personal friend, a goat, what couldn't no more be shook than a sore thumb, and had follered Ping off ter ther wars, so to speak.

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How the Hussars used to cuss!

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No other human being is capable of soaring to the height of the Chinaman's falsetto modulations, as he heaps reproaches and cuss-words on his enemy's queue-adorned head.

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Sure enough the Chinaman is "a peculiar little cuss," whether seen at home or abroad.

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But he's a cold-blooded sort of cuss.

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"He's about the most determined cuss that ever lived."

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"Kind of a mean cuss, I reckon," remarked a newcomer, one day at the saloon, when Jim alone, of the crowd present, declined to drink with him.

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He don't carry shootin'-irons, but no feller in camp dares to tackle him; he don't cuss nobody, but ev'rybody does just as he asks 'em to.

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"Serve him right, cuss him," growled Lynn Taps.

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Don't cuss me, Mary--I've never knowed how I've been a-goin'.

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"I'm a ruined man--I'm a used-up cuss," said the Judge, with a look of bitter anguish.

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'Tain't none of our bizness what he's done, an' ef it wuz, you'd know more about it than we cud tell yer; but it's mighty sartin that a cuss that's been in the digging fur years needs a sight of mendin' up before he kicks the bucket."

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God bless yer, Mose, an' ef my blessin's no account, it can't cuss yer, ennyhow.

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It's enough to make a marble statoo cuss to see good men spiled that way."

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We might throw keerds aroun', one to each feller in the camp, and him as gets ace of spades is to tend to the poor cuss."

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'Cos why?--'Cos nobody heerd her cuss or seed her laugh.

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He can't sing a song, except somethin' about 'Tejus an' tasteless hours,' that nobody ever heard before, an' don't want to agin; he don't drink, he don't play keards, he don't even cuss when he tumbles into the river.

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"The old cuss is too fond uv his dust.

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What did the poor old cuss do?"

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You don't care a tinker's cuss about the war.

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Le' me see, now:--Ther was Tomps Burk, Wade Elwood, and Joe and Ben Carter, and Wesley Morris, John Coke--wiry little cuss, he was, afore he got his leg sawed off--and Ezry, and--Well, I don't jist mind all the boys--'s a long time ago, and I never was much of a hand far names.--Now, some folks'll hear a name and never fergit it, but I can't boast of a good ricollection, 'specially o' names; and far the last thirty year my mem'ry's be'n a-failin' me, ever sence a spell o' fever 'at I brought on onc't--fever and rheumatiz together.

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And "Cuss you!" he says then, to the baby--"ef it hadn't be'n far your infernal squawkin' I'd a-be'n all right; but you've brought the whole neighberhood out, and, dam you, I'll jist let you swim out to 'em!"

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I've got the cuss!"

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When I come out, the folks behaved mos' gen'manly an' harnsome; They 'lowed it wouldn't be more 'n right, ef I should cuss 'n' darn some: The Cunnle he apolergized; suz he, "I'll du wut 's right, I'll give ye settisfection now by shootin' ye at sight, An' give the nigger, (when he's caught,) to pay him fer his trickin' In gittin' the wrong man took up, a most H fired lickin',-- It's jest the way with all on 'em, the inconsistent critters, They're 'most enough to make a man blaspheme his mornin' bitters; I'll be your frien' thru thick an' thin an' in all kines o' weathers, An' all you'll hev to pay fer 's jest the waste o' tar an' feathers: A lady owned the bed, ye see, a widder, tu, Miss Shennon; It wuz her mite; we would ha' took another, ef ther 'd ben one: We don't make _no_ charge for the ride an' all the other fixins.

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Esquire for quallerties o' heart an' intellec' Peculiar to Columby's sile, an' not to no one else's, Thet makes Európean tyrans scringe in all their gilded pel'ces, An' doos gret honor to our race an' Southun institootions": (I give ye jest the substance o' the leadin' resolootions:) "RESOLVED, Thet we revere in him a soger 'thout a flor, A martyr to the princerples o' libbaty an' lor: RESOLVED, Thet other nations all, ef sot 'longside o' us, For vartoo, larnin', chivverlry, ain't noways wuth a cuss."

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He even went the length of saying he didn't care a cuss; and when I asked him sarcastically if he had forgotten the Platoon Commander's pamphlet-bible, "Am I offensive enough?" he said he thought he was, and I agreed with him.

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"Here--I won't tell you any more if you're goin' to cuss that way an' jerk around," protested Wade.

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"Jim, I'm observin' you're a heap more curious than ever, an' you always was an inquisitive cuss," complained Wade.

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I shouldn't care a cuss if it weren't for young Bunny.

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cuss' rascal!

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And so, sodger, if you conscientiously thinks thar has been walloping enough done on both sides, I'm jist the man to help you all out of the bobbery;--though, cuss me, you might as well have cut me out of the beech without so much hard axing!"

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While they were thus engaged, the senior rose from the earth, staring about him for a moment with looks of stupid inquiry; until beginning at last to comprehend the accident that had happened to him, and perhaps moved by the late of his treasure, he also burst into a fury; and snatching up the nearest gun, he clapped it to his horse's head, and shot it dead on the spot, roaring out, "Cuss' white-man hoss!

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Cuss debbil hoss!"

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I'm the person what knows this h'yar town better nor ar another feller in all Kentucky; and that I stick on,--for, cuss me, I've stole hosses in it!"

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And so, you see, it has a sort of set the old feller mad: he thinks of nothing but the Jibbenainosay,--(that is, when he's sober, though, cuss him, I believe it's all one when he's drunk, too.)

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And as for your gitting any good-will out of her, cuss me if I believe it.

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So cuss away, if it will do you good; and I'll stand it.

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If you killed the old feller and the young-uns, you needn't be ashamed of it; for cuss me, I think all the better of you for it; for it's not every feller can kill three Injuns that has him in the tugs, by no means no-how.

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"It is jist to save you from the torture," said he, "that I'm now speaking; for, cuss me, the more I think of it, the more I can't stand it no-how.

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You don't know it, captain; but that Telie, that poor critter that's afeard of her own shadow, did run all risks, and play all manner of fool's tricks, to save you from this identical same captivation; and the night you was sleeping at Bruce's fort, and we waiting for you at the ford, she cried, and begged, and prayed that I would do you no more mischief; and, cuss her, she threatened to tell you and Bruce, there, the whole affair of the ambush; till I scared her with my tomahawk, like a d----d rascal as I am (but there's nothing will fetch her round but fear of murdering); and so swore her to keep silence.

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"I say, you are a cool young cuss.

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Hoblit had to admit the signing of the receipt, but told Lincoln he "supposed the cuss had lost it."

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If you're goin' to pay me, you'll do it without a bond, and if you ain't, I ain't goin' to sue you; I'm jest goin' to think what a' o'nery cuss you are."

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"The little cuss!" he exclaimed, grinning.

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D'ye see that little copper-colored cuss down there in the corner, not more'n a foot long?

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A wee bit of a cuss at that."

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"Damn that black cuss," he muttered, "and the preacher too.

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She says he owned me quite as much as I owned him--a darned ungrateful cuss!

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"I'm the most orderly cuss on earth.

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In plain words there's some dope coming between Mark and his work, and I should like to hear what you think of him, you being an independent witness and a pretty shrewd cuss.

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"An' 'tis a delicate matter to cuss the singers when the musicianers be twice as bad."

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cuss the chap--he's gone like a Torpointer!

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You don't care a cuss for the Truth?

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[Illustration: "A mean cuss?

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(_CULCHARD resigns himself to enthusiasm._) My opinion of you, Mr. CULCHARD, is that, taking you by and large, you amount to what we Amurrcans describe as "a pretty mean cuss."

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A mean cuss?

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But I don't consider the expression, "a mean cuss," too picturesque for that particular kind of hero myself!

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"Also, cuss some, Grandma," suggested a slow voice.

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That little cuss always did contrary me."

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She never did cuss 'em out proper or act human toward 'em.

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Now you should 'ear the Corkus cuss At the Brum bubble--busted!

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'We're cramping the poor cuss here.

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"'The creature is so typical,' she says when the poor cuss had finally stumbled down the front steps.

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"And it seemed that the cuss had not only shown her more than a little attention at evening functions but had escorted her to the midspring production of 'Hamlet' by the Red Gap Amateur Theatrical and Dramatic Society.

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"And when I'm good and full of it," he added as an afterthought, "I'm liable to come over here and lick you, Lew, just for being such an agreeable cuss.

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"If I should happen to get jagged up in good shape, about the first thing I'd do would be to lick the stuffing out of you for being such a simple-minded cuss," Ford prophesied grimly, as one who knows well whereof he speaks.

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"Say, I'm going to be an interfering kind of a cuss, and put you next to something," he began, with just the right degree of hesitation in his manner.

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He's sure a deliberate kind of a cuss, isn't he?

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"Jake's a cantankerous cuss, boy.

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Bland was a bum, but the little cuss seemed to want to make good, and a man would be pretty poor stuff that wouldn't help a fellow reform.

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But I wish the cuss had a chanct to fight for his life."

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I knaw the value of gude rich soil tu well; an' a man as grudges the rames[3] of hisself to the airth that's kept un threescore years an' ten's a carmudgeonly cuss, surely."

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An' when Miller lifts up his voice to cuss me, tell un quiet that I knawed what must come of it, and be gone straight to Exeter Gaol to save un all further trouble.

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An' he do nothin' but write rhymes, an' tear 'em up again, an' cuss his luck, wi'out tryin' to mend it.

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Cuss 'em!

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She'm set on seein' you, an' if I go home-along without 'e, she'll awnly cuss."

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"I don't know him, but Kennedy told me, before he'd swung round, that he was a darned good sort of a cuss."

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"The ---- cuss is playing a double game," Maguire gasped.

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"But I thought you disapproved of cuss words."

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"She'll be affronted--oh, cuss the word!

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"I don't care a cuss for threats, as you might know by this time.

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"Happy always makes me think of a play I seen when I was back home; it starts out with a melancholy cuss coming out and giving a sigh that near lifts him off his feet, and he says: 'In _soo-ooth_ I know not _why_ I am so sa-ad.'

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Yuh sure are an ungrateful cuss."

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"Mamma, but you're a lucid cuss!"

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"You're a civil cuss, Marsh," he said lightly, "but one wouldn't always know it.

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Stick all the cuss words you know in front of that and it will be mild!" cried Montgomery feelingly.

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Andy Gilmore could shout me down and cuss me out, but you can't; and I'll peel the face off you if you lay hands on me!"

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Here am I got up most expensively as a Knight in Armour, and I'm blessed if the confounded cuss of a cusstumier hasn't forgotten to send my right gauntlet!"

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I know'd you a long while ago, and honored you--cuss me, if I didn't.

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"It don't matter a cuss where or how I hustle my dry hash.

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We'll follow your lead, Father, an' it don't matter a cuss when the scrap comes."

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