Vulgar words in On Our Selection (Page 1)
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I do n't know if he was knocked up or if he did n't know any more, but he stopped swearing and sat on a stump looking at a patch of barley they had destroyed, and shaking his head.
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"Damn the fellow!"
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"DAMN Y', let me GO!"
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Then to Dave, when he got some breath: "Well, you ARE an ass of a fellow.
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"Worse 'n a lot of d--d jackasses," Dad was heard to say.
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In quick time Brown's black slut bailed up an "old man" full of fight.
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The slut made no attempt to tackle him; she stood off with her tongue out.
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"Go on!" he howled, waving in the air a fistful of grass and weeds which he had pulled from the nose of the plough; "clear out of this altogether!--you're only a damn nuisance."
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He said: "Damn y'--what the devil do y' want?
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"DAMN you, be off out of this!"
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"Damn you--lie down!" he roared.
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"Why, damn it!" he exclaimed, at last, "that's MY OWN horse...You don't mean...S'help me!
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He brandished the scraper and sprang wildly at Joe and yelled, "Damn y', you WHELP!
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He caught many things with it--willie-wagtails, laughing-jackasses, fowls, and mostly the dog.
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"Can't y' find anything better t' do than everlastingly playing at that damn thing?" he would shout.
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"Damn y', boy!" he yelled, "take th' awful things outside--YOU tinker!"
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We planted him on his own selection beneath a gum-tree, where for years and years a family of jackasses nightly roosted, Dad remarking: "As there MIGHT be a chance of his hearin', it'll be company for the poor old cove."
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YOU blockhead!"
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"Oh, DAMN his concertina!"
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Then, while Johnson expostulated with Dad for laming his brindle slut, the kangaroo dived through a hole in the tent and rushed into the house and into the bedroom, and sprang on the bed among a lot of babies and women's hats.
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It's utter nonsense, and, to speak the truth" (lowering his voice again) "I'VE BEEN SICK OF THE WHOLE DAMN THING LONG AGO."
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"What, bear-skins worth that and the paddock here and the lanes and the country over-run with them--FULL of the damn things--HUNDREDS of them--and we, all this time--all these years--working and slaving and scraping and-and" (he almost shouted), "DAMN me!
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DAMN it, boy, are you so DENSE?"
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"DAMN IT!" said Dad, glaring at Mother, "wot d' y' ALL want out 'ere?...Y-YOU brute!"
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"No wonder the damn cow's frightened."
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He said, "Damn the dogs!"
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A row of jackasses on a tree near by laughed merrily.
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They had been at "Callaghan"--as they christened the colt--since daylight, pretty well; and had crippled old Moll and lamed Maloney's Dandy, and knocked up two they borrowed from Anderson--yarding the rubbish; and there was n't a fence within miles of the place that he had n't tumbled over and smashed.
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HE was a snag.
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Dad said: "Damn it, what are y' 'FRAID o', boy?
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"It's all damn well t' TALK," he fired off; "come in and RIDE th'----horse then, if y' s'----GAME!"
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"Damn the brown foal!"
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"Well, let me see; I'll have in altogether, I daresay, this year, about thirty-five acres of wheat--I suppose as good a wheat----" "Damn the wheat!...OOH!"
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Given an ass, an elephant, and an empty wine-bottle or two, and one might have thought Noah's ark had been emptied at our selection.
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"DAMN it, where is it?" he cried, impatiently.