Vulgar words in Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories (Page 1)

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cuss x 1
damn x 3
jackass x 4
            

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"Ef I was to ask you," continued Johnson, without heeding the reply, but with a growing anxiety of eye and a nervous twitching of his lips,--"ef I was to ask you, fur instance, ef that was a jackass rabbit thet jest passed,--eh?--you'd say it was or was not, ez the case may be.

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"No," said Tommy, quietly, "it WAS a jackass rabbit."

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"It ain't the square thing," said Johnson, after a pause, with a laugh that was neither mirthful nor musical, and frightened away a lizard that had been regarding the pair with breathless suspense,--"it ain't the square thing for jackass rabbits to wear hats, Tommy,--is it, eh?"

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damn you, Skaggs!

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Give 'em to me, damn you, quick, before I cuts your heart out!'

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Speak English--no, damn it, I mean don't," said Islington, snappishly.

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"And you?" said Bill, holding him at arm's length, and surveying him critically,--"you!--toe think--toe think--a little cuss no higher nor a trace, a boy as I've flicked outer the road with a whip time in agin, a boy ez never hed much clothes to speak of, turned into a sport!"

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For yer a borned poet,--ef ye are as shy as a jackass rabbit.

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