Vulgar words in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (Page 1)
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If I don't wear him out with a hickory; holler fer 'em, damn 'em!
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On the other side were the boys, in physical characteristics the same and suggesting the same social divisions: at the top the farmer--now and then a slave-holder and perhaps of gentle blood--who had dropped by the way on the westward march of civilization and had cleared some rich river bottom and a neighboring summit of the mountains, where he sent his sheep and cattle to graze; where a creek opened into this valley some free-settler, whose grandfather had fought at King's Mountain--usually of Scotch-Irish descent, often English, but sometimes German or sometimes even Huguenot--would have his rude home of logs; under him, and in wretched cabins at the head of the creek or on the washed spur of the mountain above, or in some "deadenin"' still higher up and swept by mists and low-trailing clouds, the poor white trash--worthless descendants of the servile and sometimes criminal class who might have traced their origin back to the slums of London; hand-to-mouth tenants of the valley-aristocrat, hewers of wood for him in the lowlands and upland guardians of his cattle and sheep.
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"Who were they, Tom?" he asked The old driver turned: "They was some po' white trash down on Cane Creek, I reckon, suh.
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There was a slight contempt in the negro's words that made Chad think of hearing the Turners call the Dillons white trash--though they never said "po' white trash."
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"Jess wait till Miss Lucy sees that piece o' white trash," he said, shaking his head.
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How did this piece of poor white trash dare to offer a fish to his sister.
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"Ole Marse Cal Buford pickin' a piece of white trash out de gutter an' not sayin' whar he come from an' nuttin' 'bout him.
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"Damn those niggers!" he cried, in a tone that seemed to include the General in his condemnation, "that boy is the best boy I ever knew.
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He gwine to fight wid de po' white trash."
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"Surrender!" said Dan again, lifting his knife above the Yankee's breast, "or, damn you, I'll--" The Yankee had turned his face weakly toward the fire, and Dan, with a cry of horror, threw his knife away and sprang to his feet.