Vulgar words in Happy Hawkins (Page 1)

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cuss x 16
damn x 1
shoot up x 1
spunk x 1
            

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But you couldn't listen to old Spike Williams, 'cause the' wasn't no opportunity--he didn't even cuss.

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The fair-hair straightens up with a snort, while the pot-openers begin to cuss sort o' growly.

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The kid got up an' begun to cuss as usual, but the pony never moved.

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You are the one 'at didn't have no call to cuss.

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I just know 'at you went there to cuss 'cause I made you own up at breakfast that it wasn't no worse for me to fling the oatmeal out the window when it didn't suit me than it was for you to fling the coffee."

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I was feared I might have to go back to John, an' John's a sort of a heavy baggage for a careless cuss to be luggin' around.

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"I don't know what you do know an' I don't know what you don't know; but I do know 'at lots of the things you think you know ain't so, if you picked it up from the fool stories some o' these damn cow punchers tell; an' you ought to be ashamed to listen to 'em."

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He was the most onlucky cuss 'at ever breathed, I reckon.

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I tried to mine it out by myself at first, but pshaw, every cuss in the book had a name like an Injun town, an' the' was about as many characters in the book as the' is on the earth; so I delegated Hammy to read her out loud.

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I wasn't much acquainted over in Danders, an' I thought it would be easy slidin'; but the first feller I met was a useless sort of a cuss what had been punchin' cows at the Diamond Dot the time the Prophy Gang tried to clean it out, an' he has to tell 'em who I am, an' they had all heard about me an' Bill Andrews; so 'at it was purt' nigh impossible for me to hold out.

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I ain't long on talk, but I'll agree to carry out any plan you've got, from ditchin' a limited to shootin' up a Methodist Church.

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Now the old man was mighty savin' with his cuss-words, a' he put out a purty tol'able fair grade o' grammar; but the girl had an eye in her head and an ear to listen with, an' she had been for a long time takin' notice o' the side winks o' the Easterners.

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It seems to give me a curious, itchy feelin' in the right hand, an' I have had to make several extra peculiar speciments dance a few steps for no other reason; but this little cuss never batted an eye.

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That little cuss was willin' to fight any-thing that walked.

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She said a man who had the spunk to stick up for his dog the way Bill did would be a purty handy kind to have around the house, an' she was just tryin' him out to see how far he'd go.

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He sat up an' began to tell what a low-down, sneakin' cuss Dick had allus been.

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Layer after layer, up it came; an' all the while mebbe I wasn't feelin' like a tender-foot, with that fat little cuss puffin' his pipe in the back seat, as happy as a toad.

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"You're a funny cuss," sez he.

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He was a comical little cuss, an' it amused me a heap to see how excited he was.

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