Vulgar words in Across China on Foot (Page 1)
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Fagged and famished beings are these trackers, whose life day after day, week in week out, is harder than that of the average costermonger's donkey.
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He had, however, struck a snag.
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So far as he could remember, poor ignorant ass, he had never seen a pony like it in his extensive travels--probably from Yün-nan-fu to Tali-fu, if so far; but as a matter of fact, Rusty had wrenched his right fore fetlock between a gully in the rocks the day before and was now going lame.
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"But pardon me, will--" "Morning, morning--he, h-e-e." "Yes, you silly ass, I know it is morning, but--" "Yes, yes; morning, morning--he-e-e-e-e." He then made for the door, not the least abashed.
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I chimed in with my infallible "Puh tong, you stupid ass, puh tong" (I don't understand, I don't understand); and what with the noise of the disputants, the Chinese bystanders, my own men (they were all acutely disgusted with every Shan in the district, and plainly showed it, because they could not be understood in speech) and myself all talking at once, and the dogs who mistook me for a beggar, and tried to get at close grips with me for being one of that fraternity, it was a veritable Bedlam and Tower of Babel in awfullest combination.
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To one who knows the conditions, there is in the trip a good deal to fascinate; for in the lives and customs of the people, in the nature of the country, in the free-and-easy life the traveler would himself develop--having a peep at things as they were back in the ancient days of the Bible--to the brain-fagged professional or commercial there is nothing better in the whole of the East.
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[Illustration: THE UBIQUITOUS WATER CARRIER Drawing the water and hewing the wood are daily chores in China, mostly carried out by womenthough this is a picture of a man, a half-wit.]